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"Let us hope," I prayed, "that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring."

— Peter De Vries The Mackerel Plaza (1958)

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Source: The Mackerel Plaza (1958), chapter 3
Work: The Mackerel Plaza, 1958
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