- Page 1 and 2: —THE FIFTH DOMINION— IMAJICA I
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- Page 17 and 18: "It's not really a disaster. I've j
- Page 19 and 20: "Nobody's ever going to know it, of
- Page 21 and 22: 22 CLIVE BARKER mouth, which she'd
- Page 23 and 24: "Marlin, sometimes you're sublime/'
- Page 25 and 26: speed at all was a miracle, but it
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- Page 35 and 36: 42 CLIVE BARKER anonymous piece of
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- Page 43 and 44: IMAJICA 53 Clean Slate. But they me
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mind's eye until it was his body's
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efuddled. Half concealed by shadow
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all he could do was wait for him to
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"You're not going to tell them you'
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ook was how extensively the unrecon
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Oscar raised his voice over the din
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need of worming, later. Herown sole
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If so, what was this creature that
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he heard the voices in the chamber
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know I amthe only one they targeted
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112 CLIVE BARKER "Are we even sure
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IMAJICA 115 arrange to have it buri
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least, hisbright welcome and flatte
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She went on with her story, but now
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She did indeed know Simone, though
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"Thanks, but I think it's a waiting
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with him, and said,"Working on some
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power in his voice,and the words ca
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Notting Hill, and the location he w
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"I know. But it's a start. Name it.
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Gentle didn't rise to the remark. I
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one behind, had been apart of the b
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all sides. They were the lucky ones
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Meanwhile, Dowd's violenceseemed to
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God's honest fucking truth here. Wh
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One useful possibility did spring f
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went. At the door she remembered sh
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"Did he say why?" Gentle asked. "He
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Gentle shrugged. "I'm sure it didn'
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"Is that why you want to float? Are
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His reply was to bring two fluted g
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and let in some cooler air. Her sli
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Was a sign of veneration required o
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about to flip it on when the unmist
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she had no alcohol in her sys?tem,
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to recognize themboth—to see the
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"Not bad at all," he heard Pie say.
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Judith. Or if you'd been in love wi
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When he looked up again, daring the
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"Fifth Dominion," the Pontiff mutte
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"And when will that be?" Gentle inq
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Tick Raw's hand was at Pie's neck a
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Seeing his executioner approaching,
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"Who's that?" "You, my friend, you!
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The dog looked up from its toilet.
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"We can talk about that another tim
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the link between a Godolphin and a
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Oscar went to hush the parrots. "Id
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The traveler condescending; the tra
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The streets of Beatrix weren't as n
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"Tonight then," Pie replied, and it
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IMAJICA 227 "It's men who make this
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"Now listen!" he said fiercely. The
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hour until his aching eyes discover
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"That sounds good." "But it means t
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their eyes on theremains of Beatrix
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"I want to help here," Gentle said.
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emoved and a less elegantdefense ag
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"What about Oscar?" "No. This is mi
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"I'd like to see it." "Shall we str
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"Me . . . knowing you. You being wh
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ning its fingers over the dog's fla
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"Doesn't everybody?" "I think you k
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the fire. "The voiders," Dowd expla
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Despite weather that was worsening
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The mystif didn't argue, only sugge
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"One inside the other?" "Head, tail
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"Innumerable." "How?1' "He was One,
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and this seeing not the business of
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pneumas it had discharged to do har
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chocolat" "If they don't have it in
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its cheeks, and parts of its nose,
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Gentle had let slip the doeki's rei
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"Tell me." "Well, mystifs have thei
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"I'm still here. Can you see me?" h
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"It's a fucking dead end!" he said,
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"You did fine work," Pie said. "I t
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thequiet of the house, waiting for
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IMAJICA 299 the rain on the roof ha
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"Has he got something to do with th
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leaving the Fifth, I mean." "I coul
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"My God," he replied, his look appa
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IMAJICA 309 view of her sex. Here h
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She didn't use the dark to reconfig
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stocks hoarded against this eventua
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point in their journey across the T
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ody on the platform at his feet. He
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"What about it?" "It's coming." He
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In the heat of the afternoon, the t
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"And he knew it?" "Oh, yes...." "Is
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There was little sign offraternizat
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"This is it." There was no triumph
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murmured. "What's the cradle he tal
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eengiven over to the lost. And then
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them. Though the flood was eating a
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and desire couldtouch the mystif; c
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348 CLIVE BARKER ation from the beg
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moan again.The sound drove Gentle o
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them asmuch as it does me." So sayi
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"He can make an honest man of John
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"On the contrary," Gentle said, a s
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in his eye—his face mingled with
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"This is all to do with the tower,
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"The people in the tower. The Tabul
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alwabuy your way past democracy. It
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"How do you know all this?" "Roxbor
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instantlyspotted, so she said she d
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The tower was in darkness, and the
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"What have you done to her?" she ye
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"I'm afraid if she keeps company wi
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"I doubt it." "Are we going to take
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The sound of the bolts being drawn
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"You must be kidding." "At least st
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"Does she?" "She told me she almost
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were inflamed by thedrink in his sy
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"There's no time," Gentle said. "Te
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A cry of alarm was rising from the
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already es?tablished his particular
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"None." "We should have had them ex
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—most of it bloody—had remained
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feelingfor her why didn't he come a
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416 CLIVEBARKER pieces, the words h
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He looked up at the canopy of trees
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ainstorm wasbreaking inside her, sl
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weeks in coming, some—these more
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"He's dead," she said. "But his leg
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The kreauchee was better than he'd
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without drawing too much attention.
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and doors, like anemonesshowing the
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IMAJICA 441 him to come away, but h
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The mystif didn't reply. It merely
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hushed vista. The storm was complet
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it bynaming its companions: Huzzah
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"This is very proper," he said. "An
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surrounded bycherubim and seraphim,
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the gold-flecked blood. "She's to b
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Even though the sandy wind was alre
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gloom, and naked, with a back from
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a wielderof magic? Having studied t
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"What about the house?" Dowd said.
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the meantime. Selfish bastard! We'r
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IMAJICA 475 the sight of a Nulliana
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Gentleturned the gun and his gaze u
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failed. When it did,darkness descen
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street, ignoring their clinginghand
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"Yes. But not its relevance." Culus
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"Do you know if a shaman called Ara
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"Then why don't you close the door?
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corridors and stairways that had no
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Gentle didn't linger to argue but h
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"Is he still?" "I haven't spoken to
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502 CL1VE BARKER pled and diseased,
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IMAJICA 505 "they're so very long.
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"Now," he said. "How does it feel?"
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"I had a friend in the Fifth who wo
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"Think of them fatherless and take
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thisfurther show of optimism teeter
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"If that's what you want to believe