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"They say that you should name things to know them. But sometimes Anna wondered if there wasn't more wisdom in not naming anything you truly feel, so that you might keep feeling it. Every name fixes something to the cross, stops it mid-flight; every name, thought Anna, is a bullet seeking a target to kill."

"The sun stumbled into each day a guilty party, a violent red ball, indistinct in outline, shuddering through the haze as if hungover, while in the ochry light smoke smothered every street and the smoke filled every room, the smoke sullied every drink and every meal; the acrid, tarry, sulphurous smoke that burnt the back of every throat and filled every mouth and nose blocking out the warm gentle smells of summer."