I have touched filth. Only with the finger tip I touched it, inquisitive of the taste of it. But it creeps. It has spread over my body a slime, and into my soul a stupor (...) (Olaf Stapledon)

I have touched filth. Only with the finger tip I touched it, inquisitive of the taste of it. But it creeps. It has spread over my body a slime, and into my soul a stupor (...)

Olaf Stapledon

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