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Of the weird way they cut meat in the market, of how hard it was to get milk, even finally with the assistance of Eddie Kent, of the very existence now of the flowers in the garden, the tulipan hedge that screened Eddie's lawn from the swimming pool, for instance, the zapotes like chocolate jello but tasting of delicate flavors (so she said), of all these things he would have known nothing, had she not told him.


Malcolm Lowry
from DARK AS THE GRAVE WHEREIN MY FRIEND IS LAID
(New American Library, 1968).