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Anyone who wanted to cry had to closet himself and lock the door behind him. Tears were forbidden on this continent. The television laughed and the radio smirked. The mornings tittered and the evenings guffawed. Even the devil and the Lord God laughed.
Sorrow had been brutally expelled from this life. In the Quarter, which echoed with hellish shrieks of laughter, sorrow had stolen into the most inconspicuous corners.