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All men desire to be rich; no man desires to grow old.
It is difficult to remain young when one’s children selfishly insist upon growing older.
he knew this last child was Death. In the dream, the rich man offered his child Death all he had in return for more life, but nothing the rich man had to offer was of interest to Death. The only thing Death desired was the company of its father.
“Nevertheless, a time must come when all things change. And when I think of the future, there are two things I desire above all else. One is to name my heir. My second desire is for a companion to be a comfort to me in the years of my decline.” The oldest son said, “Pardon me, Father, but are you telling us that you are to marry again?” The rich man said, “No, no! Alyssa and I are quite happy. What I wish for is, simply, a dog. The smallest, silkiest, most obedient and amiable dog a man has ever possessed. I have decided to task you, my sons, with this errand. You will have a year and a day to
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To his surprise, he was discovering that being loved could be just as productive of anxiety as the lack of it was.
But this was not the strangest thing, to find a pot farm in the middle of a blizzard. Stranger still were the people tending the pot plants, who were not people at all, but cats dressed in lab coats who stood on their hind legs, wielding clipboards and garden shears and harvesting buckets.
Two dozen cats, all in scarves and winter hats, were making their way toward the house. Each held a small dog tenderly in its arms.
This was Prince Hat’s power: to find his way into anyone’s bed. And this was Gary’s: to lure him out again.
“Prince Hat grew up among the huldufólk. He attended the Black School. He was promised to Hell. But first he came up to live in the world because he was curious to see how things went in the kingdoms above. He wished to drink and fuck and see night become day become night again. This is what he told me once. Perhaps his curiosity has been satisfied and he has gone home.”
“He says, who does not know Prince Hat, that infamous slut?”
