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crap much longer since apparently he was going to lose<br />

this goddamn sneaky war with cancer no matter how<br />

hard he fought.<br />

Still, he'd been lucky and lived a good long life and<br />

done the state some service, whether they knew it or<br />

not. And having loosed with that dangerous innocence<br />

so foreign to Thomas Svatopluk an instrument of<br />

destruction far more sophisticated than himself, that<br />

bomb he called his honey and his sweetheart and his<br />

baby, away Commander Brickhart flew into night.<br />

On the land from which the secret of Operation<br />

Archangel was now being removed (along with<br />

abundant beech, birch, cedar, sycamore, and other<br />

natural things), there had once lived, in a harmoniously<br />

heartless life struggle, abundant deer, bears, wolves,<br />

foxes, otters, beavers, minks, raccoons, and other<br />

wildlife that was, as William Bredforet used to say of<br />

the old great fortunes, "all gone now." Indeed, their<br />

pelts had gone to make those fortunes in the shapes of<br />

hats, gloves, rugs, collars, and coats. Little but the<br />

unprofitable porcupine had not been stolen for a stole.<br />

The profligate rabbit had also survived, and the skunk,

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