"All he had was nothing, but that was something, and now it had been taken away.

Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.
~ Terry Pratchett ~












Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.
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