But where corpses were buried secretly, there the grass grows thick; such signs (and there are ever so many others! ) may be read by those to whom truth is more important than beauty.

William T. Vollmann
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  1. The hospital bulked darkly in the darkness.
  2. The smoke detectors began to ring; for they were battery-powered and thus still functioned, just as a record can still be played after the death of every member of the orchestra.
  3. Rising up, rising down! History shambles on! What are we left with? A few half-shattered Greek stelae; Trotsky's eyeglasses; Gandhi's native-spun cloth, Cortes' pieces of solid gold (extorted from their original owner, Montezuma); a little heap of orange peels left on the table by the...
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  5. It was about as easy getting the Statue of Liberty to spread cunny, which did take some dynamite persuasion.
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