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“...these bizarre images... reminded her of the slides of exposed spinal levels in Travis’s office. They hung on the enamelled walls like the codes of insoluble dreams, the keys to a nightmare in which she had begun to play a more willing and calculated role.”
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“The body of the last Flealouse contained the flesh of everything that had ever lived. It was content.”
― Lanark: A Life in Four Books
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― Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
― Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
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