“I met Murder on the way —
He had a mask like Castlereagh”
Percy Bysshe Shelley The Masque of Anarchy
Very smooth he looked, yet grim;
Seven blood-hounds followed him.
St. 2
The Masque of Anarchy (1819)
“He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back.”
— Ray Bradbury, book Fahrenheit 451
Source: Fahrenheit 451
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