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Authors: Nicholas Evans
But it wasn’t this, nor the ripple of flames along its charred black back, that made Connor shiver again. It was the look in the animal’s eye. There was a rim of white along its lower lid and the message it conveyed was not of fear itself but rather of some fearful admonition.
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Verse from “On Trust in the Heart” by Seng-t’san translated
by D. T. Suzuki,
Manual of Zen Buddhism
, Grove Press, 1960.
Reprinted courtesy of Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Copyright © 1995 by Nicholas Evans
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November 1996
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