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“I should like to understand more about the signs on the shirt you wore earlier. What was it: Eat the tail and suck the head?”
“Could you just imagine? If every suicide rose--think of Faulkner's Quentin Compson as a vampire. I don't hate the South I don't I don't. She wondered how they'd have worked it out in Cambridge when...”
“My first thought was that a tornado had somehow picked me up and carried me off, like in the Wizard of Oz. No old witches pedaled by, and I didn't see any flying farm animals or chicken coops, and ...”
“Am I right in thinkin' you've maybe been" - he dropped his voice - "the victim of an infamous outrage by the darkies?”
“She had understood before she had ever dreamed of a city such as this, where every texture, every color, leapt out at you, where every fragrance was a drug, and the air itself was something alive a...”
