They're safe,'' he said. "And you're not made of glass". He swept me up in his arms. I … - Sherwood Smith

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What the philosophers once knew as life has become the sphere of private existence and now of mere consumption, dragged along as an appendage of the process of material production, without autonomy or substance of its own.

Sherwood Smith

They're safe,'' he said. "And you're not made of glass". He swept me up in his arms. I laughed. "And I'm not made of glass. " He carried me into our room and kicked the door shut behind us.

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The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.

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