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crushing her head to bits; and lies, a headless black angel, with her wings ripped off, by a little wicket gate in the palace, all in a crumpled heap. -- And Gibreel, looking away from her in horror, sees the Imam grown monstrous, lying in the palace forecourt with his mouth yawning open at the gates; as the people march through the gates he swallows them whole.
The body of Al-Lat has shrivelled on the grass, leaving behind only a dark stain; and now every clock in the capital city of Desh begins to chime, and goes on unceasingly, beyond twelve, beyond twenty-four, beyond one thousand and one, announcing the end of Time, the hour that is beyond measuring, the hour of the exile's return, of the victory of water over wine, of the commencement of the Untimc of the Imam.
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When the nocturnal story changes, when, without warning, the progress of events injahilia and Yathrib gives way to the struggle of Imam and Empress,
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