Paragraph 24
“Come. I thirst. Clouding over. No black clouds anywhere, are there? Thunderstorm.”
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Stephen is thirsty and the sky is clouding, though he cannot find a black cloud to explain it. A flash of lightning sends him to the fallen angel Lucifer, the light that never sets, and then he denies the whole
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