“Weigh then your wealth, and judge if it’s more dear
To you than life. If not, your course is clear.”

—  Michael Shea, book Nifft the Lean

Part 4, “The Goddess in Glass,” Chapter 10 (p. 285)
Nifft the Lean (1982)

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