Angry Candy

Angry Candy is a 1998 collection of short stories by Harlan Ellison that is loosely organized around the theme of death.

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1998 - Short stories - Harlan Ellison

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The name is the last two words of the following poem:

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"the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls"

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the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls

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are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds

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(also, with the church's protestant blessings

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daughters, unscented shapeless spirited)

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they believe in Christ and Longfellow, both dead,

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are invariably interested in so many things--

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at the present writing one still finds

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delighted fingers knitting for the is it Poles?

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perhaps. While permanent faces coyly bandy

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scandal of Mrs. N and Professor D

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...the Cambridge ladies do not care, above

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Cambridge if sometimes in its box of

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sky lavender and cornerless, the

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moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy

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