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“Then I could not help wondering what the watching gods…” quote by Gene Wolfe — Download Open image

“Then I could not help wondering what the watching gods thought of us, with our clever masks and our jokes. What we think of crickets, perhaps, whose singing we hear with pleasure, though some of us smash them with our heels when they venture into sight.”

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