Carolina QuotesAt your mouth, white and milk-warm sphinx, I taste a strange apocalypse
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
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Aldous Huxley, "Revelation"
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“At your mouth, white and milk-warm sphinx, I taste a strange…” Aldous Huxley. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-CAD2B2451C. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/cad2b2451c
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