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From: Lew Goodwin
Subject: [Cron-bug] remains
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:19:15 +0300

Images,metaphors of the most extreme and extravagant twined and twisted in hismind. Her courage made nothing of the adventure. Yet it is dark, mysterious, andundocumented; so that there is no explaining it. It was as if the hard and consolidated sky poured itself forthin one profuse fountain. To pause therefore and seek the reasons of thingsis out of the question.
Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. There were also wild cries and terrible inhuman groanings.
Love hadmeant to him nothing but sawdust and cinders. He was bitten by a swarm of snakes, each morepoisonous than the last. Yet it is dark, mysterious, andundocumented; so that there is no explaining it. In short,nothing could exceed the brilliancy and gaiety of the scene by day.
For, heaven be praised, he spoke the tongue as hisown; his mothers maid had taught him.
The joys he had had of ittasted insipid in the extreme.
The Great Frost was, historians tell us, the most severe that has evervisited these islands.
At midnight they would meet at an inn near Blackfriars. One old man seemed to bereading aloud from a holy book. Loversdallied upon divans spread with sables. It is certain indeed that many ladies were ready to show him theirfavours. Thewhole world seemed to ring with the news of her deceit and his derision.
Whom had he loved, what had he loved, he asked himself in atumult of emotion, until now?

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