From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.
The list could surely go on, and there is nothing more wonderful than a list, instrument of wondrous hypotyposis.
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The list could surely go on, and there is nothing more wonderful than a list, instrument of wondrous hypotyposis.
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