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p. 49: “The staff was visibly shaken, and Joan ventured a nervous comment on how truth can sometimes be stranger than fiction. Jerry Niles, back in the shelter after a two-week drinking binge and soaking the remnants of his frostbitten feet in a bucket of warm water and Betadine, looked up with an insouciant smile:

“‘Piece of cake. Fiction, my friends, has to make sense.’”

p. 40: “I have always had an irrational fear of boredom and ennui, and these wonderfully erratic pilgrims have protected me from any hint of complacency or routine.”