Your collection is not a woman. That's only a metaphor-an abstraction! You'll be dying for nothing, for a principle that nobody else can even comprehend. (Michael Swanwick)

Your collection is not a woman. That's only a metaphor-an abstraction! You'll be dying for nothing, for a principle that nobody else can even comprehend.

Michael Swanwick

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