While my extensive experience as an editor has led me to a disdain for flashbacks and flash forwards and all such tricksy gimmicks I believe that if you, dear Reader, can extend your patience for just a moment, you will find that there is a Method to this tale of Madness.
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Timothy Cavendish In the darkness, I suddenly saw the light. Blood has always trumped water. If the Hogginses brutes wanted to turn this into a family affair, they'd find the Cavendish clan more than ready for the task at hand.
Timothy Cavendish Freedom. The fatuous jingle of our civilization. But only those deprived of it have the barest inkling of what it really is.
Timothy Cavendish We cross and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.
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