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“He told himself that a thing like this must have some deep meaning. Surely it was so. A thing like this must provide an answer to every question; it was just a a matter of keeping your foot on the throttle.”

“Just go on dancing with me like this forever, Garraty, and I’ll never tire. We’ll scrape our shoe on the stars and hang upside down from the moon.”

“He wondered if Curley had felt the gas-topped slugs hitting home or if he had just been alive one second and dead the next.
But of course it had hurt. It had hurt before, in the worst, rupturing sag, knowing there would be no more you but the universe would roll on just the same, unharmed snd unhampered.”