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... protest , protest for the ties of a lifetime that have been so arbitrarily sundered . The golden corpse , seated in its enclosure of leaves , offers a white grin to the world , a rending coda to the end that waits for all of us . Men ...
... protest , protest for the ties of a lifetime that have been so arbitrarily sundered . The golden corpse , seated in its enclosure of leaves , offers a white grin to the world , a rending coda to the end that waits for all of us . Men ...
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... protest . But men rule in the area of religion . Characteristically , they alone are privy to the inner mysteries of the cults that celebrate the spiritual dimension of existence . Initiation , occurring in the early teens , admits them ...
... protest . But men rule in the area of religion . Characteristically , they alone are privy to the inner mysteries of the cults that celebrate the spiritual dimension of existence . Initiation , occurring in the early teens , admits them ...
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