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I simply wanted to sink into them and live among words the way a fish lives among underwater plants. I am now operating within my design parameters. “Do you want something to eat? Drink? We can get pretty much anything here—”“Let’s get to it,” she said. This will be easy, in the end.

I gripped a rail and tried not to cower. ’“‘I wasn’t sure I ought to do it. The old mathematician sighed. “That’s not all that’s strange.