ELLEN KUSHNER

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First published in 1987 by Allen & Unwin (Publishers) Ltd.

This edition first published in Great Britain in 2016 by Gollancz
an imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd
Carmelite House, 50 Victoria Embankment
London EC4Y 0DZ
An Hachette UK Company
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Copyright Ellen Kushner 1987
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For the Other One

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Man desiresthat which is Good.

Plato

We all have faults, he said.

and mine is being wicked.
James Thurber, The Thirteen Clocks

In the end . . . everything will be found

to be true of everybody.

Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar

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