The cold fell from the stars. He stood long enough for it to get inside his clothes and for the landscape to assume the strangeness of other places that have their own life without us. In a strategy not in textbook or theology, but, with the practical experience of a medical man, taking account of an Almighty, who, at great age, must have been badly nearsighted at this stage, Doctor Troy stood there long enough to be seen. Naill Williams. The Time of the Child.

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