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For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape .

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The suicidally disgruntled were legion, And their enemies included any and all Americans, Brits, Canadians, Danes, et cetera; or, conversely, all Moslems, dark-skinned people, non-English-speakers, immigrants; all Catholics, fundamentalists, atheists; all liberals, all conservatives...For such people the consummate act of…

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“The universe, it seemed, was full to brimming with lonesome places.”

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“Fifteen minutes shy of two o’clock. The thick of the night. The zone of lost objectivity.”

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It was the kind of experience, Molly said, that would grow calluses on an angel's ass.

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