“Rain was the nemesis of the snow, and the snow for the flowers”

— Avner Strauss

Context: Rain was the nemesis of the snow, and the snow for the flowers. I Answer as if Someone Really Meant to Ask, Birds of the Mind and Chameleons of the Heart (1978).

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