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We were picking up electrical interference from every appliance in the building. As I went around checking all the connections, she put down her ice water and continued.

"We do not study Greek to reinstate Apollo. We do not hunt to watch the pain move across the kill." There were two or three kinds of cable and socket, I don't remember how many; none was loose. But the hum kept high.

I was stumped; she kept talking; the twenty of us there kept moving around -- this was, then, the resistance.