Impressive sounds, some of them, seeming to assure you that somewhere in the world life must be tremendously diverting, exceptionally exciting, and all good clean fun in the meantime… And even, now and then, truth reaches you with the penetrating power of a very quiet voice.
– from “Largo by the Sea (A Prologue)” in Varmints, by Peggy Bennett.
(Thanks to the excellent Neglected Books for uncovering this.)
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