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[simanon]

"541. So he said unto them, "Who is that man, who would stick his neck out for his brother man?" 542. They answered to him as with one voice, "Shaft." 543. Then he spake to them, asking, "Canst thou not dig it? They say to me that this Shaft is likened to a cat, unto an evil fornicator of mothers." 544. They censured him harshly then, saying "Shut your mouth." Whereupon he protested to them, that he had meant merely to discourse upon Shaft. 545. Whereupon the people rejoiced, and went forth from Torrance unto Long Beach, clad in garlands and jumpsuits, and there the priest hung a sacred medallion, all of gold and bearing a clenched fist, about his neck. 546. Solid.

from Dolomites 3:541-546"

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