“What are you doing here?” I asked at last. “Probably the same thing you are.” “What’s that?” She looked… — Samuel R. Delany
“What are you doing here?” I asked at last.
“Probably the same thing you are.”
“What’s that?”
She looked serious. “Why don’t you tell me?”
I went back to my knife. “Sharpening my machete.”
“I'm sharpening my mind,” she said. “There is something to be done that will require an edge on both.”
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