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In this cold, teeth can shatter after two or three hours鈥攁ctually explode鈥攕ending shrapnel of bone and enamel flying inside the cavern of one鈥檚 clenched jaws. Sometimes, Crozier knows from experience, you can hear the enamel cracking just before the teeth explode.
鈥淐ome on, God-damn your eyes!鈥 Crozier screams. 鈥淐ome out and try me instead of a boy, you hairy arse-licking rat-fucking piss-drinking spawn of a poxy Highgate whore!鈥
Crozier sighs. 鈥淒on鈥檛 do that. Rip him a new arsehole if you like, but don鈥檛 take his rum away. This ship feels surly enough already.
I was full of piss and vinegar in those days, not to mention too stupid to know better, in other words still in my twenties,
Maybe reading is a sort of curse is all I mean, concluded Fowler. Maybe it鈥檚 better for a man to stay inside his own mind.
Crozier hurts to the cavity in the center of his self where he is sure his soul had resided until it floated away on a sea of whiskey over the decades.
Why does our species always have to take our full measure of God-given misery and terror and mortality and then make it worse?
If there is a Hell鈥攊n which I no longer Believe, since this Earth and some of the People in it are Hell enough for any Universe鈥擨 would be and should be Cast Down to the Worst Bolgia of the Lowest Circle. I Don鈥檛 Care.
When a shaman gets nervous, Crozier knew, everyone gets nervous.
