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More specifically, it's an onagadori -- an ornamental rooster bred for its long tail.

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... 'constitutes the single greatest tactical catastrophe in the Operant Bureau's history'...

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The Opera has unofficially been considered the last come, last served among the world three's leading intelligence agencies for at least two decades.

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You could make it longer by using the Old Calendar. According to the New Calendar, you were born in 61, but by the old method it was 2632.

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Something twitches inside your memory. You have heard of this, but its name slips by you.

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The Weeping Eye's interrogator class.

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You flash back to the memory of planting that cricket with Ramses, how it had trembled in his hand for a moment...

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RADIAN: no mention of epilepsy found. Medical conditions: left blank.

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A good deal of Ramses' equipment always consisted of improvised devices cobbled up from the cannibalised remains of consumer electronics.

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What happened in 77?

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Hazy memories flick by. Among them, you see the amalgamation of bitter flesh that birthed you, sitting like a creature in her lair.

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Now they remind you of her.

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Pencil sounds disconcertingly impermanent.

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The words circled beneath the doctor's signature return to you.

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You know the next words. You've been hearing them since you got here.

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A devious species of lie: The entries are there but forbidden from circulation. Falsehoods and misperceptions enforced by phalanxes of smiling lawyers.

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Just like Ignatz said.

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Of those three descriptors, only one has ever been applied to you, and it's not 'lucid' or 'composed'.

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Only a moment's hesitation. This man may detest the majority of music, but his internal discography is formidable.

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Blood all over the sofa cushions.

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90, Portofiro. Spring dawn filtered through the windows, promising the year's first clear day. You drew the curtains, turned on the TV. Your task: educate your young asset in the history of martial arts movies.

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Reno's hands tremble as he shakes kibble into a flowerpot. Tempo doesn't look up.

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'Eschaton': the day after the end of time -- a final turning of divine machinery.

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'Eschaton': you have no idea what the word means, but it lands with a pleasant heaviness.

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Coincides with the information on file: the Azzurri mob has recently become the regional power on all things illegal in Portofiro.

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Six months later: The clearing of the Pitol Tract began. Over 20,000 residents were displaced, never to be relocated.

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You once heard an old hand say that the tortured walk their own province.

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An equal mix of 'old people' and 'immunity to fun'.

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When you were quite small, there was a jasmine plant that trailed over the neighbour's fence. Knowing they could be made into tea, you took a flower and popped it in your mouth one autumn morning.

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The remains of a community that was traded for a single shot at the sky.

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That Kurt guy had it the other way around...