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Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don't always give up their meanings easily; you have to tease them out, and for me, that's one of the pleasures of reading older collections of lore.

— Elizabeth Hand Elizabeth Hand on Mortal Love at HarperCollins (2004)

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