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Before thegolem reached them, a couple flung Mausers to their shoulders and started shooting.

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“After what thegolem showed us, Berel, who are we to say what God would and would not permit?”

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Then thegolem looked at each of them in turn, mud-colored eyes somber in his great ugly face.

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He could still see the room in which he sat, thegolem next to him, Korczak and Geller across the table, the children back to playing with dreidels.

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Behind him came thegolem, gaining with every enormous stride.

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But thegolem only raised its glass along with the rest of the adults.

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Just as a man would have, thegolem ceased when that bullet struck it.

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Even as the harsh cry “Halt!” rang in the air, thegolem ran straight for the Germans.

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Then, emboldened and perhaps a trifleshikker from theslivovitz, he turned to thegolem and said expansively, “What shall we call you, my friend?”

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The town of Puck might have been cast headlong into the strange space from which thegolem drew its visions.

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