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Not dead, not beautiful, not afire, this bush—so, no God. No alarms, either. In the heat its blooms hang like rags, tired as Mary’s first Christmas. The true pyre is west. . . .
He looks up from his magazine at the beach ball globe floating near the edge of the pool. The familiar pink and blue and yellow continents painted across turquoise seas look like harmless flowers. . . .
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