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"A dead mans shadow has entered this house."
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The Voice"Even if a person inside water lets out gas, the odour floats up to the surface. You know not even this the saying of our Izon people?"
"A dead mans shadow has entered this house."
"Listen not to him. He speaks this way always because he passed standard six. Because he passed standard six his ears refuseth nothing, his inside refuseth nothing like a dustbin."
"You must leave this town. It will pain our insides too much to see you suffer. We are a soft people and even now if you agree to join us, we untie your hands and you will have no need to knock your head against stone as you are doing."
"It was a great task I performed, my people. A great task in sending him away. A dangerous task, but it had to be done for the good of us all."
"Yes, they are singing with voices like a piece of earth, and drinking with throats that pick nothing, and shaking the world with their looking-at-nothing feet."
"I have already told you. Be sensible and be a good lad. This country will need men like you, if only you learn to shut your eyes at certain things."