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Outside, endless water, a deluge, that I alone might live to tell my tale. A gray mist
soon clouded up the tearoom windows, thus drawing a curtain over the outside
world. I was surrounded by the sweet warmth of fruit tarts and chocolates.
Outside, endless water, a deluge, that I alone might live to tell my tale. A gray mist
soon clouded up the tearoom windows, thus drawing a curtain over the outside
world. I was surrounded by the sweet warmth of fruit tarts and chocolates.
Page 72
... you're just pretending, you'd be better off hiding your nib in shame, you boozed
-up pen, crazy coleopter, or else tell me the story of your brother scorpion who's
napping a few words away from you in the dictionary, you scarab, but you can't, ...
... you're just pretending, you'd be better off hiding your nib in shame, you boozed
-up pen, crazy coleopter, or else tell me the story of your brother scorpion who's
napping a few words away from you in the dictionary, you scarab, but you can't, ...
Page 86
But their beauty idealizes and destroys their subjects' monstrosity. Anesthetized,
odorless, two-dimensional monsters. Who will tell the truth about what it's like to
be overwhelmed by megalomaniac breasts, to feel the squishiness of a flabby roll
...
But their beauty idealizes and destroys their subjects' monstrosity. Anesthetized,
odorless, two-dimensional monsters. Who will tell the truth about what it's like to
be overwhelmed by megalomaniac breasts, to feel the squishiness of a flabby roll
...
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