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In my younger…

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And more vulnerable years

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Gatsby, who represented everything for which…

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I have unaffected scorn

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It is what preyed in Gatsby, what…

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Foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams

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To see two old friends whom…

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I scarcely knew at all

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Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could…

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Hide the enormous power of that body

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They were both in white, and their dresses were…

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Rippling a fluttering

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‘Do they miss me?’ She cried…

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Ecstatically

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‘Gatsby?’ Demanded Daisy…

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‘What Gatsby?’

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You must know…

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Gatsby

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10
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Brute…

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Of a man

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It’s all scientific…

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Stuff

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You remind me of a…

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Rose. An absolute rose.

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I though everyone knew

‘Toms got some …

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Woman in new York’

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I’ve had a very bad time nick…

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I’m pretty cynical about everything

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That’s the best thing a girl can be in this world…

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A beautiful little fool

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I had no intention of…

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Being rumoured into marriage

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I could have sworn he was…

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Trembling

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I want you to meet…

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My girl

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He was a blonde…

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Spiritless man, anaemia and faintly handsome

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He’s so dumb…

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He doesn’t know he’s alive

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Here’s you money…

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Go buy ten more dogs with it

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I’ve been drunk

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Just twice in my life

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Making a short deft movement

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Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand

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Men and girls came and went

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Like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars

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A tray of cocktails floated at us

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Through the twilight

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Somebody told me they thought he

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Killed a man

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Muttering that if one book was removed

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The whole library was liable to collapse

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He smiled understandingly… it was one of those rare smiles with a quality of

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Eternal reassurance in it

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I wasnt actually in love but I felt a sort of

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Tender curiosity

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Dishonesty in a woman

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Is something you never blame deeply

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She was incurably

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Dishonest

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I hate careless people

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That’s why I like you

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I’m one of the few

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Honest people I have ever known

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I was able to do the commissioner

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A favour once

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I discovered his tiny

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Eyes in the half darkness

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Finest specimens of

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Human molars

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Gatsby is very careful about woman. He would never do much

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Look at a friends wife

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He’s the one who fixed the

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World Series back in 1919

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N meets T ‘I’ve been haven’t lunch with mr Gatsby’

I turned towards Gatsby but

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He was no longer there

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Drunk as a

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Monkey

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He wants her to

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See his house

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I had no girl whose disembodied

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Face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs and so i drew up the girl beside me

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The day agreed upon was

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Pouring with rain

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He was pale and there were dark signs of

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Sleeplessness beneath his eyes

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Her throat, full of

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Aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy

46
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Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began

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To cry stormily

47
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Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of

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That light had now vanished for ever

48
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His count of enchanted objects had

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Diminished by one

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I had reached the point of believing everything

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And nothing about him

50
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He wanted to go and he didn’t see that

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Mr Sloane has determined he shouldn’t

51
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If you want to take down any addresses here’s

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My little gold pencil

52
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‘Can’t repeat the past?’ He cried

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Incredulously. ‘Why if course you can!’

53
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At his lips touch she

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Blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete

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Bles-

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Sed pre-cious

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I don’t think he ever really believed in

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It’s existence before

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You dream, you

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You’d absolute little dream

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What will we do with ourselves this afternoon

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And the day after that and the next thirty years

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But it’s so hot and every thing is so confused…You always look so cool… she had told him that she loved him and

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Tom buchanan saw

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He got up, his eyes still flashing between

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Gatsby and his wife

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Her voice is

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Full of money

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Tom was feeling the hot whips

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Of panic. His wife and his mistress… were slipping precipitately from his control

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She never

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Loved you do you hear

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Oh you want

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Too much

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The words seemed to bite

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Physically into Gatsby

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Going faster’n 40, going

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50,60

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She ran out ina road

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Son of a bitch didn’t even stop us car

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I heard a low husky sob

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And saw that the tears were overflowing down his face

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It’s better that the shock should all come at once

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She stood it pretty well

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So I walked away and left him standing there in the moon light

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Watching over nothing

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There was a inexplicable amount of

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Dust everywhere

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Artificial

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World

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They’re a rotten crowd

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Your worth the whole damn bunch put together

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It was the only compliment I ever gave him because I

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Disapproved if him from beginning to end

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You may fool me

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But you can’t fool god

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The eyes of t j evkleburg which had just emerged

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Pale and enormous from the dissolving night

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What a grotesque thing a

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Rose is

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The holocaust was

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Complete

78
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So Wilson was reduced to a man

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Deranged by grief

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His eyes leaked continuously with

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Excitement

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His grief began to be mixed with an

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Awed pride

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Start him!

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I made him

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I’m five years too old to

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Lie to myself and call it honour

83
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Angry and

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Half in love with her

84
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Your crazy nick

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Crazy as hell

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He threw dust into your eyes

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Just like he did in Daisy’s

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There was nothing I could say other than

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The unutterable fact that it wasn’t true

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They were careless people, Tom and daisy- they

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Smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money

88
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Let other people clean up

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The mess they had made

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Probably it was some final guest who had been away at the ends of

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The earth and didn’t know that the party was over

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His dream must have seemed so close that he could

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Hardly fail to grasp it

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Gatsby believed in the

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Green light

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Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out

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Our arms further

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Boats against the

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Current

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“For daisy a man is

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The shirt he wears”

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Her life violently

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Extinguished

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Mingled her thick dark blood

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With the dust

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the two young women slowly

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ballooned to the floor

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I enjoyed

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looking at the her

99
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T and D move around ‘wherever

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people played polo and were rich together’

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wear the gold

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hat (epigraph)- money key to winning object of desire

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high in a white palace, the kings daughter,

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the golden girl

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defunct mantlepiece clock… to tilt

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dangerously at the pressure of his head… caught it with trembling fingers

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