“So,” said Raven, “once again tonight we are presented with a mysterious sign and no way to know whether it completes a pattern or destroys one.”

— Samuel R. Delany , book Tales of Nevèrÿon

Section 3 (p. 245)
Tales of Nevèrÿon (1979)

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