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Hmm...hmm. A stag hunt. To what elaborate lengths the equestrian classes go in order to draw out the simple business of butchering venison.

— Avram Davidson The Phoenix and the Mirror (1969)

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But the Red Man denied that time, though it must always be paid for, could always be paid for in money.

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