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'history's henchmen...Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly impersonal. Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear—civilization's fear of nature, men's fear of women, power's fear of powerlessness. Man's subliminal urge to destroy what he could neither subdue nor deify.'

'She was perhaps too young to realize that what she assumed was her love for Chacko was actually a tentative, timorous, acceptance of herself.'

'He drove the thought away angrily. It returned and sat outside his skull. Like a dog.'

'She was beautiful. Old, unusual, regal.'

'And the Air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. The Big Things lurk unsaid inside.'

'History's smell. Like old roses on a breeze.'

'Oddly, neglect seemed to have resulted in an accidental release of the spirit.'

'He began to look wiser than he really was. Like a fisherman in a city. With sea-secrets in him.'

'Strange insects appeared like ideas in the evenings'