“Hmm…hmm. A stag hunt. To what elaborate lengths the equestrian classes go in order to draw out the simple business of butchering venison.”

— Avram Davidson, book The Phoenix and the Mirror

Source: The Phoenix and the Mirror (1969), Chapter 6

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novelist 1923–1993

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