The Night of the Long Knives

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Any man who saw you, or even heard your strides must be trapped, followed and murdered, regardless of whether required for food or not. Something else, insofar as his quality waited, he would be following right after you.- – The Twenty-Fifth Hour, by Herbert Best

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thoroughly understand. Perhaps they do. However, I keep thinking about whether they see how extraordinary it very well may be with us Deathlanders when it’s the main delivery (with the exception of perhaps alcohol and medications, which we only occasionally can get and much more infrequently dare use)- – the main complete delivery, despite the fact that a short one, from the overwhelming depression and from the oppression of the inclination to execute.

To grasp, to have, to excess desire on, yes even quickly to adore, quickly to protect in- – that was acceptable, that was a consolation and delivery to be loved.

However, it couldn’t last. You could coax it out, prop it up maybe for a couple of days, for a month despite the fact that (occasionally not for a solitary night)- – you may even begin to converse with one another somewhat, sooner or later – yet it would never last. The organs consistently tire