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A small plant with dark purple flowers caught her attention. “Hey, what’s this?” she asked, reaching out curiously. Holroyd looked over, then dropped the mail. “Don’t touch that!” he cried. Nora jerked her hand away. “It’s belladonna,” Holroyd said, bending to pick up the scatter. “Deadly nightshade.” “You’re kidding,” Nora said. “And this?” She pointed to a neighboring plant, a small flower with exotic maroon spikes. “Monkshood. It contains aconitine, which is a really terrific poison. In the tray there are the three deadliest mushrooms: the Death Cap, Fool’s Mushroom, and A. virosa, the
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de Kooning,”
Quivira
“You know,” he explained, “Central Station. That squalid little spot in Heart of Darkness. The last outpost of civilization where people stopped before heading off into the African interior.”
stratigrapher,”
She knew that most rock art was found behind cliff dwellings. Sloane nodded. “A dozen or so pictographs. Including three reversed spirals.” Nora looked up in surprise to meet the woman’s glance. Holroyd caught the look. “What?” he asked. Nora sighed. “It’s just that, in Anasazi iconography, the counterclockwise direction is usually associated with negative supernatural forces. Clockwise or ‘sunwise’ was considered to be the direction of travel of the sun across the sky. Counterclockwise was therefore considered a perversion of nature, a reversal of the normal balance.” “A perversion of
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In order to ascend the tower, one had to climb spraddle-legged, one foot using the notches in the poles, and the other foot using the stones fastened into the wall.
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Many Anasazi societies—as well as other societies—were organized into moieties. They were divided into halves. Summer and winter societies, male and female, earth and sky.” He pointed to the two circles. “This blue disk matches the one outside this kiva. That would imply that this city was divided into rain and sun societies. The first circle represents the Rain Kiva, and the second the Sun Kiva.”
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temblor.
I know I have not been a great father, or even a good father, and for that I am truly sorry. There is so much I could have done as a father that I didn’t. So let my last act as a father be to tell you this: I love you both. And I will love you always, forever and ever, from eternity to eternity. My love for you burns brighter than all the thousands of stars that carpet the sky above my head. I may die, but my love for you never will. Dad
