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Anyway, you think for yourself. And if a man can’t do that, he isn’t really thinking.

— Manly Wade Wellman The Old Gods Waken (1979)

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Mind your feet, don’t stumble, and don’t be afraid. Because there never was a better time not to be afraid.

The Old Gods Waken (1979)

Got some dirty tricks? If that’s how it is, you done drove your ducks to the wrong puddle.

By now the rain rushed down instead of fell down. It was like what my old folks used to call raining tomcats and hoe handles.

But if I feared it, I faced up to it anyway. A man’s got to be a man sometime. You show me one who was nair afraid, and I’ll right away show you one that nair in his life came up against aught to fear.

The Old Gods Waken (1979)

Weather was a-getting ready to happen.

The Old Gods Waken (1979)

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