Finehouse relaxed in his own seat. They had all certainly failed. But maybe sometimes, he thought, it's a good thing, on the whole, to have closed a knife that someone else had opened. (Tim Powers)

Finehouse relaxed in his own seat. They had all certainly failed. But maybe sometimes, he thought, it's a good thing, on the whole, to have closed a knife that someone else had opened.

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