Can you imagine my astonishment, in turn, at learning that part of my own nature was female, and bird-formed, and beautiful? (Philip Pullman)

Can you imagine my astonishment, in turn, at learning that part of my own nature was female, and bird-formed, and beautiful?

Philip Pullman

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