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"Go on faster, Jesus"; whereupon the Man of Sorrows replied, "I am going, but thou shalt tarry till I come again."

(Chronicle of St. Alban's Abbey; 1228.)
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The party was in a room reserved for such occasions.

The Last Time They Met
Anita Shreve
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"Burroughs' career will shift now: he will begin to try to undo the consciousness that brought him to this moment."

genesis angles, Aram Saroyan
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"If you can't give me love and peace,
Then give me bitter fame."

Bitter Fame, Anne Stevenson
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"Now IN THESE DEAD LATTER DAYS of the old violent beloved U.S.A. and of the Christ-forgetting Christ-haunted death-dealing Western world I came to myself in a grove of young pines and the question came to me: has it happened at last?"

Love In The Ruins, Walker Percy
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"Again it came."

Masters of Solitude
Marvin Kaye & Parke Godwin
Doll, you may have found a place of rest but I'm still on the trail.
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"The shark swam out to his deepest waters and brooded in the cold clean currents."

A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ
Walter M. Miller, Jr.
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"I have my offices here and am available as house physician when needed."

To Sail Beyond The Sunset
Robert A. Heinlein
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there are some cool phrases and images in here... gonna grab a few and do a cut-up tonight ;)
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Hey DOREEN! It's the next morning now so where is the God Blessed cut-up :?: :?: :?:
Doll, you may have found a place of rest but I'm still on the trail.
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lol

i didn't do it yet

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Tease !
Doll, you may have found a place of rest but I'm still on the trail.
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hehe
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"The gunslinger retreated on legs he could barely feel, realizing that the creature must have some intelligence; it had approached him cautiously, perhaps from a long way down the strand, not sure what he was or of what he might be capable."

The Drawing Of The Three
The Dark Tower II

Stephen King (pg. 19)
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"Only a thing monstrous, a thing preternatural, or a thing with addled wits would hike purposefully down the trail at noon this way."

A Canticle For Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller Jr. page 1
"Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous." Barbara Ehrenreich

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