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Maragheh and Alamut
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I love a forest gap that a hike's disclosed within an Appalachian maze of pine: a fractured column shines inside the chasm of daylight its fall created,
a cylinder of moss in an aureole of ferns, lethargic flames. To the piney woods this weekend, to your mountain cabin, we will ascend from the sentried forum;
your invitation, Steve, is accepted. Let reporters garble names on projected maps, while soldiers trap our enemies in caverns and canyons. In plusher mountains,
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