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She presses down firmly, trying to stifle this engrossing bout of cadent gagging

he told them all about it in the exact same way with the exact same degree of umbrage each time

I liked flicking through them, seeing all the long serried German words

when I was that age had none of the clarity and assuredness of Sagan’s work, they were autotelic and inscrutable and quite often when I read back over them I didn’t understand them at all

looking for something, yes, abeyant treasure – the bedrock of himself in other words