"The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out his hands and looking up at th...

Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.
~ Samuel Beckett ~












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