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Chap 1 Love
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nothing threatened our free and intimate existance
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intimate
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Chap 1 Science
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mathematical grace
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grace
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Chap 1 Time
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I'm lingering in the prior moment
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prior
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Chap 1 Morals
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no special dispensation for flesh... only ruthless gravity
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ruthless
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Chap 2 Love
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radiating power of Jed Parry's love and pitty
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radiating
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Chap 2 Science Keats
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why s prescientific age would have needed to invent a soul
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prescientific
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Chap 2 Moral
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not to offend a true believe
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offend
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Chap 2 Structure
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it was all I could do to hold my excitement in
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excitement
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Chap 2 Structure
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I was in the world, equiped, capable, connected
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connected
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Chap 3 Love
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why didn't I think like this? We needed love
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needed
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Chap 3 Science Keats
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post-mortem... exorcism of terror
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exorcism
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Chap 3 Structure
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the rehersal of grief
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rehersal
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Chap 3 Moral
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my breakfast coffee cup seemed blasphemous
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blasphemous
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Chap 4 Time
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events still ringing in the air above our bed
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ringing
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Chap 4 Science Keats
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the world forgot its scorn and marvelled - for a day
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scorn
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Chap 4 Moral
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obligations to balm us
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balm
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Chap 4 Structure
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a freshly mutated virus of ill-fortune
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virus
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Chap 4 Book quote
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did the scientific illiterates who ran this place
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illiterates
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Chap 5 Love
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'I've missed you all day and I love you'... and oh God I loved her
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oh god
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Chap 5 Science Keats
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[the theory's] integral power was so great... to beautiful to resist
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integral
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Chap 5 Time
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we tumbled out of our respective days like creatures from a net
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creatures
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Chap 5 Moral
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'An Actress! He's living inside a cliche.'
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cliche
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Chap 5 Book
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would it have been right then.... to interupt our happyness
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interupt
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Chap 6 Love
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the scales tipping, from altruism to self interest
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altruism scales
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Chap 6 Time
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tranquillising thunder [of the traffic]
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tranquillising
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Chap 6 Structure
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we were in a prison cell with a high-bared window
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cell
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Chap 6 Moral
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who was the first person? Not me. Not me.
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not me
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Chap 6 Book
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Don't get angry... you didn't see his face
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face
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Chap 7 Love
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old emotional subroutines
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subroutines
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Chap 7 Science Keats
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I straightened my back to make myself taller
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taller
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Chap 7 Time
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something passes between us... pure light?
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pure light
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Chap 7 Moral
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we've cone together for a purpose
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purpose
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Chap 7 Book
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What amazed me was how easy it was not to say 'Who the fuck are you?'
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easy fuck
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Chap 8 Love
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I recalled mu incoherant feelings... looking for Parry
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inchoherant feeling
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Chap 8 Science Keats
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the way we wear our emotions on our faces is pretty much the same in all cultures
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wear our emotions
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Chap 8 Time
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what we were really talking about this time was the absense of babies
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adesense
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Chap 8 Structure
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might serve as a starting point
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starting
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Chap 8 Book
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I'm in a relationship
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relationship
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Chap 9 Love
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Where is my kiss? Hug me!
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hug me
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Chap 9 Time
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discovered her appointment diary was missing
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diary
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Chap 9 Structure
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from the point of view as I later construed it
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construed
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Chap 9 Moral
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when she was 12 her father died of Alzheimers
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Alzheimers
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Chap 10 Love
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you love me and you want to destroy me
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destroy
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Chap 10 Time
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there was another thing to like a skin... around my anger
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skin
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Chap 10 Structure
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NOTE : Parry is reality support after Clarrisa's doubt
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NOTE:
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Chap 10 Structure
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[Joe describes himself as] theatrical
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theatrical
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Chap 11 Love
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happyness running through me like an electrical current
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electrical
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Chap 11 Science
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happyness running through me like an electrical current
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current
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Chap 11 Structure
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You lay awake in the dark, listening to Clarrisa's breasthing
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breathing
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Chap 11 Book quote
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exploration has begun of the ocean floor, but the surface remains undisturbed
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ocean floor
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Chap 12 Love
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We eve made love, briefly, in the morning before work
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briefly
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Chap 12 Science
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bound to elict certain appropriate automatic responses
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elict
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Chap 12 Time
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my sense of failure in science
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failure (after Jed letter)
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Chap 12 Morals
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The general demand on concentration was calming and granted the illusion of purification
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purification
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Chap 12 Book quote
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JED = doppenlganger
ghostly other self |
ghostly other self
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Chap 13 Love
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She looked aq long way off... like a lone Arctic Explorer
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Arctic
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Chap 13 Time
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I knew this kind of North Oxford interior... it was a vanishing type
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North Oxford
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Chap 13 Structure
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like drunk driving... hard to gague
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gague
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Chap 13 Morals
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there was my friend Calrrisa
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Clarissa
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Chap 13 Book quote
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A perfect setting for sorrow
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sorrow
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Chap 14 Science
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I also know the cautionary tag from my distant laboritory days - seeing is believeing
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tag
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Chap 14 Time
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seeing is believeing
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seeing
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Chap 14 Morals
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Wouldn't Rachel and Leo agree, there were times when it was right to lie
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Rachel and Leo agree
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Chap 15 Love
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Seeing him waiting for me... gave me a jolt to the heart
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jolt
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Chap 15 Science Keats
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It is a statement, a message, from you to me, it's a signal
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statement
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Chap 15 Structure
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this was the stage
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stage
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Chap 15 Structure
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It is a statement, a message, from you to me, it's a signal
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signal
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Chap 15 Morals
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Being so enitrely wrong was a kind of liberation
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liveration
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Chap 16 Love
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How is it posible to love God and love you at the same time? Through faith alone
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faith alone
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Chap 16 Science
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innocent readers who had their day polluted by them
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polluted
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Chap 16 Time
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What were you trying to do to me... Hurt me? Insult me? Test me?
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trying to do to me
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Chap 16 Structure
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little cage of reason
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reason
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Chap 16 Morals
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In other words my love - which is God's love - is your fate
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my love fate
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Chap 17 Love
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we were lying face to face as if nothing were wrong
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face to face
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Chap 17 Structure
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we were like amrmies facing each other across a maze of trenches
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like armies
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Chap 17 Structure
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we were immobilised
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immobilised
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Chap 17 Morals
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Please put the weapon in my hand, Jed.
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weapon
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Chao 17 Love
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we knew we had lost heart
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lost heart
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Chap 18 Love
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she kissed me full on hte lips
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lips
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Chap 18 Time
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the real threats, I was begining to see, were else where
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real threats
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Chap 18 Structure
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broke of his account... to reflect on solitude... PArry used to borrow a .22 rifle
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.22 rifle
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Chap 18 Morals
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power of death leaped from my fingers
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death fingers
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Chap 18 Book
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his religion was a self made affair
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self made
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Chap 19 Love
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I'm going ot make you fuck me all afternoon
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fuck afternoon
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Chap 19 Science
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The chemists, you see. Very powerful, rather grand.
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chemists grand
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Chap 19 Structure
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Cliches are rooted in truth: I did not believe my eyes
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eye cliche
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Chap 19 Time
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when I was next aware of her she was back in her chair
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aware chair
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Chap 19
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like walking into a storm
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storm
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Chap 20 Love
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Yes. I'll wait for you at home
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home
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Chap 20 Science
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random clustering, a useful way of denying significance
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clustering
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Chap 20 Time
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a few hours on and we were in the headline in the evening paper
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headlines
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Chap 20 morals
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pulled out a silver blister pack... all the law could suggest was prozac
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prozac blister pack
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Chap 20 Structure
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I looked at the love trying to extract meaning... from the upper case "L".
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upper case L
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Chap 21 Love
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a new girlfriend
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girlfriend
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Chap 21 Science
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these people are interlectuals'...'you'll probably hate them... I already did
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interlectuals
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Chap 21 Time
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It is Saturday, Steve... It wasn't his two lsot days
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lost days
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Chap 21 Structure
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everything looked too emphatic, as though invibily italicised
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italicised
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Chap 21 Structure
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I'll tell you in four words and nothing more. Someone wants to kill me.
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four words
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Chap 22 Love
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I knew immediately she was frightened
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frightened
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Chap 22 Science
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I like this polyamide grip
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polyamide
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Chap 22 Time
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I had the impression of being passed out for a second
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impression passed out
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Chap 22 Structure
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the roar in my ears, I realised, was the cars engine
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roar
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Chap 22 Morals
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It was a conscioud effort... to keep my anal sphincter tight
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anal sphincter
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Chap 23 Love
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our love was the kind that was meant to go on and on
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go on and on
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Chap 23 Science
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not having faith in... your dedicated research
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dedicated research
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Chap 23 Time
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our love was the kind that was meant to go on and on
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go on and on
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Chap 23 Structure
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But I don't accept... But your feelings... But what I was also trying
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BUT
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Chap 23 Morals
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your ransacking my desk was a terible betrayal
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ransacking
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Chap 24 Love
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fumbled a squeeze of the hands - better than the hypocritical pecks on the cheek
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hypocritical
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Chap 24 Science
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there was a new lead in the search for Keat's last letters
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new lead
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Chap 24 Time
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It was much the same as before
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Same
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Chap 24 Structure
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trees lining the tranquil street made a tunnel of green
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tunnel
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Chap 24 structure
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What's the point? It's beautiful here and we're still unhappy
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beautiful here
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