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Dengler said that you saw at least as much violence outside the normal Milwaukee tavern as in the average firefight; inside, he claimed, you saw a bit more.
Yea, though I walk through the A Shau Valley, I shall fear no evil, because I’m the craziest son of a bitch in the valley.)
“Do you think there is a real point where then stops and now begins?” Maggie had asked him. “Don’t you know that down deep the things that happen to you never really stop happening to you?”
Emerson’s essay, ‘Nature’? He talks about becoming a transparent eyeball—‘I am nothing; I see all; the currents of Universal Being circulate through me.’
When you’re down low, you hate whatever’s beneath you, right?”
“Not that peaceful,” Maggie said. “In the first pages of Babar, Babar’s mother is shot and killed by a hunter. It’s no wonder your friend Dengler kept the books.” “Is that right?” Underhill sat upright in surprise. “Of course,” Maggie said. “And here’s something else. At the end of Babar the King, flying elephants labeled Courage, Patience, Learning, I don’t know what else—Joy and Intelligence—drive away bad evil creatures labeled Stupidity and Anger and Fear, and a lot of other wicked things.
gravity knife
everybody going to the same well but returning with different water.