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My mother said, "Oh, it's as dark as a grave."
I thought for a moment. How did my mother know how dark a grave is?
"Have you ever been in a grave?" I asked her.
"Stop being silly," she chided as she went to find candles.
My older sister had been doing her homework. "There is no electricity in a grave, idiot," she said. "Of course it is dark."

- Qais Akbar Omar, A Fort of Nine Towers