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vicious | for @bookclubnw

“did you know,” said victor, skimming a book from the prison library on anatomy — he thought it particularly foolish to endow inmates with a detailed sense of the positions of vital organs, but there you go — “that when you take away a person’s fear of pain, you take away fear of death? you make them, in their own eyes, i m m o r t a l.”