“Where’s the sane world?”

— Tim Powers

Castine asked as she followed him around to the front of the Saturn. “I used to live there. I think I still have pictures.”
Source: Forced Perspectives (2020), Chapter 13, “Would You Prevent God?” (p. 230)

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