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"Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering."

"That strange erotic terror when you know something irreversible is happening but you can't see it yet."

- but this did not settle their nerves: if there is one thing more disquieting than an unexplained sound, it is a silence after an unexplained sound.

Phase Three.
Turning Away

"If the working-class women of my mother's generation had been born in any other time, they would have led other lives - not necessarily better or worse, but definitely other. A decade earlier, they might have built airplanes... Ten years later, they could have had Ph.D.s in aeronautics." -The Household Zen

'So, the dreff and the sinew trees are sort of . . .' He looked for the word.
'Symbiotes,' supplied Cabal, intrigued by the insight into an alien ecology.
'Pals,' continued Lochery.

"... sunt lacrimae rerum, 'There are tears in things.' ... but we all cry for different reasons."

As I have said, it had been raining from the start of our Eastern European trip - a cold, steady, wet drizzle, enough water to be irritating without ever providing the giddy relief if a downpour.

Part Two: Cain and Abel, or, Siblings (1939/2001)
"I'm the community house there was a parchment with a chronicle on it, but the first page was missing and the writing had faded."
-Isaac Bashevis, The Gentleman from Cracow