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August 17, 2022

 

 

 "An ingot of lead-gray light fell through the moted air onto the empty roped square on the central platform."  -- Ross Macdonald, The Way Some People Die

 

" It seemed to me then that evil was a female quality, a poison that women secreted and transmitted to men like disease.'     --Ross Macdonald, The Moving Target

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