| SEISMOLOGY Something stirring somewhere, a subtle shudder, faint and fleeting, far down below the surface in a subterranean region always stable until now. Just a harmless buss and embrace between friends, nothing really. Ares and Aphrodite they are not. No gossamer net of pure gold will be required. Nonetheless, the tremor was real, a seismic incident sufficiently strong to shatter certain self-delusions pertaining to the baser emotions. |
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