“Flat or round, there has always been hate in the world.”

— Tanith Lee, Tales from the Flat Earth

Book 3 “The World’s Lure”, Chapter 5 “A Ship with Wings” (p. 167)
Tales from the Flat Earth, Night’s Master (1978)

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