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  1. So she said banteringly: 'What's the unit of exchange in this different world of yours?'
  2. A black star appears, a point of darkness in the night sky's clarity. Point of darkness and gateway to repose. Reach out, pierce the fine f…
  3. For in order to avoid having to deal with relative values, he had long since come to deny all purpose to the phenomenon of existence - it w…
  4. Africa was a big place and would offer its own suggestions
  5. Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustable well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of t…
  6. For God's sake, sit down. You look like a Calvinist rector telling his flock about Hell.
  7. 'We're all monsters,' said Daisy with enthusiasm. 'It's the Age of Monsters.'
  8. Many days later another caravan was passing and a man saw something on top of the highest dune there. And when they went up to see, they fo…

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