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andru235 "In one corner a savage animal appeared ready to leap out, roaring, rending with tusk and claw ... but it was only a bit of taxidermy after all.

"I suggested they might wish to hang up their coats before going on.

" ``How will we find them?`` one asked. ``We might not pass through here again.``

"I assured them that I would help them return. ``You can count on me,`` I said sincerely. Still, they wouldn't leave anything behind. "

--not "c.m."
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oldephebe well i guess i better stand in both lines then.

our frailty and fallibility and our susceptability to self-corruption by delusion...that impels us toward examining the lives of the truly sainted and yet flawed diviners of the pimordial steam stone and mist - i mean they bathe in those living streams for a reason - yeah - living stream - put your ear to that sometimes the toll upon our human souls takes us to some pretty dark places..still though i'm a sinner who contemplates ascending to sainthood in another 1000 years or so cause i got a long way to go.
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