a malefactor and enemy of humankind, an adversary really, dissolving; corroding, poisoning, chilling, sucking, drenching — coming at a man with its rolling mists and green mold and ceaseless downpour, tripping him with its numberless roots and vines, poisoning him with green insects and malodorous bugs and treacherous tree bark, turning the sun from his bones and cheer from his heart, dissolving him — the rain, the mold, the damp steadily plucking each cell apart like tiny hands tearing at the petals of a flower — dissolving him, I say, into a mindless, formless fluid like the sop of mud into
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