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          <body><![CDATA[This poor child of five was subjected to every possible torture by those cultivated parents...Do you understand why this infamy must be and is permitted? Without it, I am told, man could not have existed on earth, for he could not have known good and evil. Why should he know that diabolical good and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29987361">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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          <body><![CDATA[Idiot. Above her head was the only stable place in the cosmos, the only refuge from the damnation of the panta rei, and she guessed it was the Pendulum's business, not hers. A moment later the couple went off -- he, trained on some textbook that had blunted his capacity for wonder, she, inert and in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29940982">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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