"Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves!"

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The same authorities who insist upon beginnings, middles, and ends, declare that Great Literature (by which they mean the stories they have been taught to admire) is about love and death, while mere popular fiction like this is about sex and violence. One reader's sex, alas, is another's love; and one's violence, another's death.

— Gene Wolfe