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[rich]

It went on for a month. Those who had taken it for a cosmic sign cringed
beneath the sky each nightfall, imagining ever more extravagant disasters.
Others, for whom orange did not seem an appropriately apocalyptic shade,
sat outdoors on public benches, reading calmly, growing used to the curious
pallor. As nights went on and nothing happened and the phenomenon slowly
faded to the accustomed deeper violets again, most had difficulty
remembering the earlier rise of heart, the sense of overture and
possibility, and went back once again to seeking only orgasm,
hallucination, stupor, sleep, to fetch them through the night and prepare
them against the day. (p. 805)

very much parallels the passing of the transit of venus in M&D

rich

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

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