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She heard about her sister's end from a newsstand billboard, MODEL"S "ACID BATH" DEATH. You're not even safe from puns when you die, was her first reaction. Then she found she was unable to weep.
"I kept seeing her in magazines for months," she told Gibreel. "On account of the glossies' long lead times." Elena's corpse danced across Moroccan deserts, clad only in diaphanous veils; or it was sighted in the Sea of Shadows on the moon, naked except for spaceman's helmet and half a dozen silk ties knotted around breasts and groin. Allie took to drawing moustaches on the pictures, to the outrage of newsagents; she ripped her late sister out of the journals of her zombie-like undeath and crumpled her up. Haunted by Elena's periodical ghost, Allie reflected on the dangers of attempting to _fly_; what flaming falls, what macabre hells were reserved for such Icarus types! She came to think of Elena as a soul in torment, to believe that this captivity in an immobile world of girlie
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