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A touch of filial love

Taste: A vampire (Cape Cod plus Chambord): vodka, cranberry juice, lime, black raspberry liquor
Touch: her plush cheeks and brow, a pink, powdery softness
Sight: sedated she shrinks and shimmers becoming delicate and fey like in her hospital gown; "Given enough coffee you can rule the world"
Smell: acrid pulp mill scent in a pocket outside an apartment
Sound: Lost world music God Shall Be Praised, Music from Lune Convent, features music from a cloister first established in the year 1170; "The Wrong Side," Abney Park, "I run where the darker kids run on the dark stained streets where the black rain runs."..."I dance where the darker crowds dance in the pitch black clubs in a blood-stained trance."; muzzy: confused or muddled in mind
Extra: timeless and timely knowledge, why we still read Plato, the last page of Critias, "They bore their vast wealth of gold and other possessions without difficulty, treating them as if they were a burden. They did not become intoxicated with the luxury of the life their wealth made possible; they did not lose their self-control and slip into decline, but in their sober judgment they could see distinctly that even their very wealth increased with their amity and its companion, virtue. But they saw that both wealth and concord decline as possessions become pursued and honored. And virtue perishes with them as well."; filial love; a fleeting grocery store attraction

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