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It was very fortunate indeed that the feast took place when it did. Two / days later it would probably have been impossible, and three days later / it would have been too late to do any good. But coming when it did, it / made the difference which was all the difference in the world.
Only thirty hours after the feasting which followed the death of the / clotho spider, Burl's fellows -- from Jon to Dor to Tet and Dik and / Saya -- had come to know a numb despair which the other creatures of his / world were simply a bit too stupid to achieve.