TWENTY-SIX - THE ABYSS
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t abominable fall yaime, and one little slip, one footstep on a
loose rock, one careless Lyra, so far doarvation before you ever ttom, and t o an infinite gulf, o o reac you out, forever conscious and forever falling...
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