Nicholas Was...

"Nicholas Was... older than sin, and his beard could grow no whiter. He wanted to die. The dwarfish natives of the Arctic caverns did not speak his language, but conversed in their own, twittering tongue, conducted incomprehensible rituals, when they were not actually working in the factories. Once every year they forced him, sobbing and protesting, into Endless Night..."

https://www.neilgaiman.com/works/Books/Smoke+%2526+Mirrors/in/197/

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