He thought she was a unicorn to be speared, penned, and ado… - Robert Stone

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He thought she was a unicorn to be speared, penned, and adored. He wanted her white goodness, wanted a skin of it. He wanted to wash in it, to drink and drink and drink of it.

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(August 21, 1937 – January 10, 2015) was an American novelist.

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Alternative Names: Robert Anthony Stone

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It brought him to a latticed gate over which a small, iron Christ stared down in wide-eyed rusty death from the gibbet of a green, oxidised cross.

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