Bones

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and the AFIP Forensic Anthropology Faculty for their compassionate work and for teaching me to see more than bones

and

in memory of Shadow and Siri

The gate was open and the drawbridge down.

He galloped across, but when he got to the end of the drawbridge, someone yanked the cable so abruptly that Parzival was nearly thrown, horse and all, into the moat.

Parzival turned back to see who had done this to him. There, standing in the open gateway, was the page who had pulled the cable, shaking his fist at Parzival. “May God damn the light that falls upon your path!” the boy cried. “You fool! You wretched fool! Why didn’t you ask the question?”

“What do you mean?” Parzival shouted back. “What question?”

—PARZIVAL: THE QUEST OF THE GRAIL KNIGHT

by Wolfram von Eschenbach,

as retold by Katherine Paterson

He paid cash for the book, as he had all the other books on this subject. He spoke to no one, did nothing that would make him memorable to a clerk or customer.

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