“It is a subliminal thing. It is the tick of a clock that has ticked so long one no longer notices. Something is in a room when a man lives in it. Something is not in the room when a man is dead in it.”
Ray Bradbury
A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories
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