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Some of them were philanthropists. By American standards, Jean-Claude said, this did not count as sex. RICHARD DELAP & GIL LAMONT PUBLISHED BY MORPHEUS INTERNATIONALTHE ESSENTIAL ELLISON 170 THE ESSENTIAL ELLISON

And something about what he said, or the way he said it, made Jean-Claude do that masculine chuckle that only men do, and only about women, or sex. His eyes filled with that wistful look, that lost innocence, centuries of pain. It usually doesn’t do for creative acts to be reworked too much. Sans gefilte fish.