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"They gnaw me now, they gnaw me now, There where I most did sin."
Cervantes, Don Quixote, Part II, Chapter 33, 1605 [ballad of King Rodrigo].

"My mother, the whore She killed me! My father, the rogue, He gnawed me!
Little sister alone Laid out the bone In the cool of the clay:
Then I was a sweet bird on the stone. Fly away! Fly away!"
[Meine Mutter, die Hur Die mich umgebracht hat! Mein Vater, der Schelm Der mich gessen hat!
Mein Schwesterlein klein Hub auf die Bein An einem kühlen Ort;
Da ward ich ein schönes Waldvögelein; Fliege fort, fliege fort!]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part I, 1808, verses 4412-20 [Margaret sings].

"In less than half a minute the whole eight ourang-outangs were blazing fiercely."
E. A. Poe, Hop-Frog, 1849. [As for myself, I am simply Hop-Frog, the jester.]

Emil's sphere had travelled back in time to reach his sister Halua when still unbound.