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"The world's gone
mad," groaned the priest. "If you could see what I have seen today, town after town, village upon
village, transformed into a nightmare that even Dante could not have imagined,
men and women, little children even, and animals, all in the streets, naked and
shamelessly ..." He broke off and shuddered. "It seems that only
elderly people such as myself are spared the degradation, this visitation of
hell. Although I have even seen ..."
"That makes
sense," said Vincent. "Older people have smaller sex drives; it would
take longer for the gas to raise the hormone level. Although, of course, given
time, we may even see oldsters of eighty and ninety ..." He trailed off,
staring fixedly ahead, guiding the little car along the twisting road.
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