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For a time she had been stupefied, but now her mind was clear, although it was not working. Nature’s anodyne is thoughtlessness, and to those in trouble she says, ‘Do not think, my children, be very quiet for a while.’

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Patricia A. McFate

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© 1983 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

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McFate, P.A. (1983). The Birthday Party. In: McFate, P.A. (eds) Uncollected Prose of James Stephens. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17094-4_8

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