Source: The Chronoliths (2001), Chapter 9 (pp. 114-115)
“They gathered up the crystal manna to freeze
Their tongues with tasting, their hands with snowballing;
Or rioted in a drift, plunging up to the knees.”
London Snow, l. 20-22.
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