“A single face turned upward toward all Time
One flesh, one ecstasy, one peace.”
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer
Christ, Old Student in a New School (1972)
“The price of chemical ecstasy was a dear one, paid in flesh and spirit.”
Source: Street Lethal (1983), Chapter 5 “Knight Takes Pawn” (pp. 64-65)
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