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“There was something monstrous in the sight, something distasteful; yet it was pitiful too that the months had brought this agony upon the tree, for agony it was, there could be no other word for it. The tree was tortured by fruit, groaning under the weight of it, and the frightful part about it was that not one of the fruit was eatable.”

“The creature was gibbering in its corner. The hammering and the voices and the barking dog grew fainter, and, “Oh God,” he thought, “what a bloody silly way to die…”

“I’d argue you can rarely spoil a good story, because the joy is in the journey rather than the arrival.”