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This was the remnant of honour, nostalgic for spurious legendary times.
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It's beyond words," indeed. "There's no such thing."
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What theology that would have been, a god self-worshipping, a drug addicted to itself.
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There wasn't even any reasoning. Secrecy was just a bureaucrats' reflex.
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I don't want to be a simile anymore," I said. "I want to be a metaphor."
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Their minds were sudden merchants: metaphor, like money, equalised the incommensurable.
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