Carolina QuotesThe shaman lives outside the social system, refusing to have any part of it. Yet he seems to connect the populace to the heavens and the earth far more directly than the priest.
Tom Robbins Carolinian
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- Jitterbug Perfume (1984)
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- 1984
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