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Laurent had always preferred comedies to tragedies. In the comedies, everything comes right and then there is a stopping place that is not a true ending. The box that gives the comic story its shape is made, on purpose, too small. It cannot contain the true ending.
- Kelly Link, "The White Road," p.110 in White Cat, Black Dog
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