Scribbledehobbledehoyden: The Magpie's Eye: Page 156

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Floating Lights

"Any sufficiently developed spiritual device is indistinguishable from fraud."  This is Giordano Bruno's first law.  The lights.

and also

"Let a thousand lights bloom."  Chairman Mao said that.  Those who believed him, lived to regret it.

and also

"The dame did it."  That's every second-rate fictional detective's first law.  To be immediately followed by a metaphor gaudy enough to choke a horse.

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