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I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which the open-minded will flee in dismay.
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The small god in Ch. 44 : the visitor

 

Sheri S. Tepper

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