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Chesse issue.
On Time slips
She had youth and hope on her side, and although she
did not know it yet, she had plenty of what we call the
Other Stuff. She
Overmantle
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But in the middle of that floor was another circular
void through which I could see another floor, and
another and another and so on to the depths of the
library. I looked up. It was the same above me, more
circular light wells and the spiral staircase reaching up
into the dizzy heights above.
She looked about her, checked the door was closed and
then opened a bureau which I could see was full, not
of the trappings of her wretched life, but of small
luxuries that must, I presumed, make her existence
here that much more bearable. Amongst other things I
saw a Sony Walkman, a stack of National
Geographics, a few Daphne Farquitt novels, and one
of those bats that has a rubber ball attached to a piece
of elastic.
Mr Duchamp2924.’
Fforde, Jasper. Lost in a Good Book: .p. 209). .