Hiddensee: A Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker
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Once there was a boy who lived in a cabin in the deep woods with no one for company but an old woman and an old man.
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First line
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“No one knows his own story, and that’s the way of it, unless you make it up yourself,”
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Luck and grace: an unmatching pair of boots with which to address a long dusty road.
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All paths lead to the same place, and that place is whatever comes next.
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It seemed that the world was no more wonderful than Bach. It was no less wonderful, either. Magnificent imperturbability, exactly sized, one to the other. What did that mean about Bach, about the world?
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So pretentious
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How many times in a life, he thought, will I lie down in a darkness whose character I cannot imagine, to see what daybreak reveals of my new circumstances? Or is that every day of my life?
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but at least that visiting gasbag, Herr Benjamin
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Lol brenna
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You might forget a story, but you can never unhear a story. By that token, you might forget an event, but you can never go back to living as you did before its hidden influence was applied upon you.
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“The old gods steal secretly into our own times.
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Was music beautiful because it was full of mystery, Dirk wondered, or was it full of mystery because it was beautiful?
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Gretel,
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Hansel and Gretal
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The other Stahlbaum boy, Günther, couldn’t contribute to the obsequies either, as he had moved to someplace across the ocean known as Ohio.
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LOL
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“It’s odd, isn’t it, that there isn’t more—more fuss over his death.” “Who mourns a toy maker? Toys get broken, and so do their makers.”
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Ouch