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We lost track of which was which, but we were fairly sure that some of the creatures had been borne away still in the darkness of paganism, and that worried us a good deal.
We lost track of which was which, but we were fairly sure that some of the creatures had been borne away still in the darkness of paganism, and that worried us a good deal.
Approximate author period: c. 1943 AD · modern
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- Marilynne Robinson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1943 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from documented birth year 1943; activity date not established; Wikidata Q253926, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q253926 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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