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“…making Bagger realize that he hissed, too, at the dancers’ collision, and Reis frowns, displeased to find an observer to the bloodshed of man and virgin, the wrong one deflowered…”

“Don’t ask for guarantees. And don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.”

“He felt his body divide itself into a hotness and a coldness, a softness and a hardness, a trembling and a not trembling, the two halves grinding one upon the other.”

“Why doesn’t the wind move the light?”

“What light shines at night! He never knew. Day will blind him.”

“Great-Grandfather said he loved to imagine the big trees sledding behind teams of horses across Europe, across rivers, across the sea to Britain, where they’d be stripped and treated and raised up again as masts, where they’d see decades of battle, given a second life, sailing atop the great oceans, until eventually they’d fall and die their second death.”

“The Frog Cooks”