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"...Whether they tell of people on holiday, people in love, or children struggling to understand their surroundings, the stories are subtle in their motive, but rich in understanding, creating a world of memory and desire as physical as our own in color, texture, and taste...In "Oft in the Stilly Night," the reader is a traveler who is told numerous stories about the inhabitants of a small town—the madwoman, the cheating husband, the ambitious young beauty: "Perhaps your own village is much the same, perhaps everywhere is, perhaps pity is a luxury and deliverance a thing of the past."..."
(S.L., p. 357)