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I had lied to myself from the very beginning, deceived myself into believing that I was being fanciful....

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

At the end of the day,” he continued, “although many believe in fate, it’s those who go through....

Lenin and Stalin created the idiosyncratic Soviet system in the image of their ruthless little circle....

They'll torture you for months before killing you if you run" Otis shrugged, as if this was an everyday....

Death stalked toward us on padded feet.       And it was not alone.

He was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those....

No, I do my torturing in the dungeon like any other respectable castle owner,

I fear no hell, just as I expect no heaven. Nabokov summed up a nonbeliever’s view of the cosmos, and....

Maybe I had been making a greater monster of him than he really was, or maybe I was still under his influence,....