Gately's DuPlessis burglary

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at the height of which agony, hearing his head's pulse as receding thunder and watching his vision's circle shrink as a red aperture around his sight rotates steadily in from the edges, at the height of which he could think only, despite the pain and panic, of what a truly dumb and silly way this was, after all this time, to die […] this Guillaume DuPlessis passed bluely from this life

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DuPlessis, gagged with his own cold, suffocating while Gately burgles the house: dying rendered as a circle closing — a red aperture rotating inward until the ring shrinks to nothing.

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Scene 016: gately duplessis burglary

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