“As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frogs in jest.
But the frogs die in earnest.”
Joanna Russ book The Female Man
Part 8, Chapter 10 (p. 196)
Source: Fiction, The Female Man (1975)
“As for myself, I am simply Hop-Frog, the jester — and this is my last jest.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, book Hop-Frog
"Hop-Frog" (1850).
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