"Victor Hugo was a passionate observer, partial to death scenes. He had an appetite for extinction, a man sure to be on hand at the sound of a death rattle or the passing of a funeral procession."
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Along Came the Witch: A Journal in the 1960's (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976), p. 201
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Helen Bevington
Helen E. Bevington (nΓ©e Smith; 1906 β March 16, 2001) was an American poet, prose writer, and educator.
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