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PART V

WORLD WITHOUT END, AMEN

Sorief But mostly the swiftness of tih What luck The myths are dead

STAN RICE

"Poe into Bed: Bitterness" Body of Work (1983)

MIAMI

A valy hot,round

Where the desperate and the greedy are locked in subversive cooes on forever; and the lights outshine the heavens, and the sea is as warm as blood

Miaround of the devil

That's e are here, in Arraceful white vil

la on the Night Island, surrounded by every conceivable luxury, and the wide open southern night

Out there, across the water, Mia: the pis, and the killers The nameless ones; so many who are almost as bad as I am, but not quite

Arone over at sunset with Marius; and they were back now, Ar roo as he did constantly, in the leather chair by theover the beach

Gabrielle had not appeared yet this evening; since Jesse left, she was frequently alone

Khay with Daniel now, Daniel who liked to let the hunger build, Daniel anted to know all about what it had been like in ancient Miletus, and Athens, and Troy Oh, don't forget Troy I ued by the idea of Troy