The fear of death in the one place was not as strong as another kind of fear, the fear of a world gone crazy, a place where anything could happen, where nothing could be trusted, where nothing was certain. A terrible place.
Orson Scott Card Connected to the Carolinas
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Chapter 4.
- work
- Red Prophet (1988)
- year
- 1988
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