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Buildings were built, in the beginning, everyone knows, to hold the dead down. Every cellar floor was built over the ceiling of something else. Now cellars are used for all sorts of purposes. Roots. Paint cans. Pantries. Workshops. Other. There\u2019s a rhyme someone invented for children. It\u2019s chanted in nurseries in the Banisher\u2019s town. The nurseries are upholstered in chintz, and the walls are padded, as though they\u2019re asylums and the babies inmates. | Copyright 2015 by Maria Dahvana Headley. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices