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ananda

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40. So we will now have to use mute blasphemy.

Reply to yellow dahlia (Reply #34)

Mon Nov 10, 2025, 03:26 PM

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He didn't utter a word, but he exuded mute blasphemy from every pore.

- Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 2 (2013)

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