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“I had a cousin once who lived in your dictionary, inside the binding, and there was a tiny hole which he used for a door, and it led out between trichotomy and trick. Now what do you think of that?...”
“People dread silence because it is transparent; like clear water, which reveals every obstaclethe used, the dead, the drowned, silence reveals the cast-off words and thoughts dropped in to obscure ...”
“It is my trade," he said. "I work for the bean family, and every day there are deaths among the beans, mostly from thirst. They shrivel and die, they go blind in their one black eye, and I put them...”
“They all seemed hungry, happy, and healthy enough in their buzzingoh the days were hot, and the noise of bees filled the air that was dusty with pollen and sun haze, and there were tiny black flies...”
“They all seemed hungry, happy, and healthy enough in their buzzing—oh the days were hot, and the noise of bees filled the air that was dusty with pollen and sun haze, and there were tiny black flie...”
