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Enchanted islands are hard to understand, ' he said. 'I've always thought that. It worried me even as a child. The trouble is that you can never be sure where the enchantment begins and where it ends.Robert Aickman
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No milk. It is black coffee, pure but strong, that fortifies against the powers of darkness with which the world is filled.Robert Aickman
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…And the sound of the sea, like the wild-animal breath of the world itself, frightened them as it gasped and died at their feet.Leonardo Sciascia