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1 " You knocked the door down." Disbelief rang in his matter-of-fact tone. " I know," she answered,unable to say anything else. Unable to look away from his body." But it's solid oak." " I know." She felt the solid oak beneath her and a little shocked that she'd done it, too. If it mattered at all, her shoulder felt a little bruised. And it was the slight pain that brought some reality back into the moment. " You don't have any clothes on." Oh, God, did she really say that? "
2 " We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly. "
― Ralph Waldo Emerson , Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
