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    Before she went to the open chair she noted the urge she had often, with him, to find a rock and cave in the skull under his wilting hair as quietly as she could, or to take his hand.

    (Twenty games to the end, two waterfront vacationers fail to renew their citizenship.)

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    "Perhaps it is the opposite: perhaps everything peculiar is, somewhere, by someone, desired."

    (Attended by a phantom, the madam reestablishes her household.)

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    The White Tower is designed like tapestry. The individual halls and chambers make no sense until visualized as aesthetically pleasing plots of color. The halls waltzed you around whoever you were trying to avoid or find in long, stately sweeps instead of depositing you at efficient right angles into a room convenient enough to escape into—and then half an hour later, lost halfway up some forsaken staircase, you’d glance down and understand that the entire thing had been laid out to form say, a graceful fan of ogees around a single toilet, all visible only from above.

    (At the end of the Third Age, two girls come to the White Tower, one leaves in disgrace and one in glory, and the Wheel weaves them together in between.)

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    There was a mark on the shoulder of her robe where someone had bitten the epaulet clean off; it explained to distasteful precision the sequins he’d extracted from his teeth in the last hours.

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    Unofficial annotations for eight pitching statistics, and five years in the minor leagues.

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    At six, they get a speech about how the future will be like an endless exercise in seven-person belaying, something something, the importance of teamwork will metastasize dreadfully, dormitories should segregate two-to-a-room for maximum discomfort, and although she keeps her eyes shut and a book over her head for the entire lecture, Nijiko ends up with a roommate anyway.

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    "How do you know I'm cutting paddles," said Nijiko, planing another board neatly and dropping the paddle into a crate labelled PADDLES (NONWEAPONIZED).

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    "We were all children together once, that is all." She started pulling apart the bandages again. "And now we are not together, nor children."

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    Barth, Cantabrigia V. “Spacer Humanity Reunites With Long-Lost Sea- and Mine-Dwelling Cousins: Live Broadcast Special.” Thumbdrive Legion (Podcast). All-Shift Agency for the Preservation of Moiran Arts and Culture. http://rww.thumbdrive-legion.purple.blue. Retrieved 42nd Ivesday, 5012.

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    You got erasers back at Suihoku; that was the kind of place it was.

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    “I am by nature given to flights of extreme perspicacity. It’s your turn to add a flavor, don’t make it messy. It has to retain this air of delicacy, since it’s a flavor expressing Snowmaru’s winter melancholy. Don’t think that simply because he is a snowman, he isn’t prone to winter melancholy, that is a rookie mistake.”

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    The day after the Bijou game, Kikue saw Miwako at the batting cages with her everpresent umbrella (inside an air-conditioned room! was she trying to show off her umbrella, its specially commissioned silk coverlet with embroidery in plasticine beads and the delicate, doll-like locket of Swiss clockwork that levered it shut!? As if anyone would notice that! That was just like Miwako, thinking all of them were just salivating to know everything there was to know about her ten-thousand-and-twenty-yen, made-in-Milan, imported-on-a-Thursday-in-April-so-she’d-had-to-skip-luncheon-duty-to-pick-it-up umbrella!) and had to pretend to ignore her for all of the twenty-seven seconds necessary to duck into the water cooler enclave and check her reflection in the side of a vending machine.

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    In theory, Momokan knew there was technically nothing about legacy schools that should be intimidating off the field, but the optimistic rush brought on by repetition of this fact was difficult to maintain when you did things like snag a purple kleenex from a dispenser to fix your makeup and read, blurred by bronzer, something like “Did you know that the 1997 fall season Municipal offense lineup was photographed in Love Berry’s photo spread of Japan’s most beautiful people?”

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