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“We are scared of happiness, you see. From a tender age we have been taught that in the air, in the Etesian wind, an uncanny exchange is at work, so that for every morsel of contentment there will follow a morsel of suffering, for every peal of laughter there is a drop of tear to roll, because that is the way of this strange world, and hence we try not to look too happy, even on days when we might feel so inside”