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I swallowed heavily. I wanted to run to him, to jump on him, to fuck him. I shrugged. As Voltaire has said,“Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one wouldrealize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

Sometime after three-thirty I fell asleep. The museum hadplanned an exhibit depicting the evolution of the snake, but in collecting the specimen for the exhibit theyfound that one period in the life of the snake was missing. Greatweight was coming at us, out of the darkness, and it was more a sense of pressure, of air forcing itselfinto a limited space, expanding the invisible walls of a sphere. His voice was soft, too, as if he had made his point and wouldn't rub it in.