Quote of the Day: "Then the needle slid under his skin. ..."

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"Then the needle slid under his skin. The drug calmed his soul, but did not touch it down where the blackness had reached."

Philip Roth (1959). "Eli, the Fanatic." In Goodbye, Columbus. Cited from Bantam Modern Classics, 1969, p. 1216.