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grandiloquently
One of the villagers’ favorite entertainments was trapping birds, painting their feathers, then releasing them to rejoin their flock. As these brightly colored creatures sought the safety of their fellows, the other birds, seeing them as threatening aliens, attacked and tore at the outcasts until they killed them.
rule was to kill children right away
as they were too young to work.”
during the war only mathematics offered him relief from quotidian reality.
miasmal
torpor.
