Double StarThe story revolves around Lawrence Smith, also known as "Lorenzo the Great", a down-and-out actor wasting the remainder of his life in bars. When he encounters a space-pilot who offers him a drink, before he knows what is going on, he is on Mars involved in a deep conspiracy with global consequences. He is given a mission where failure would not only mean his own death, it would almost certainly mean an all-out planetary war. |
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... role for which I was being considered . " That arm - waver ! That word - mouther ! " I stopped , realizing that it was more dignified to ignore such colleagues - if the word fits . But that popinjay was so conceited that - well , if the ...
... role for which I was being considered . " That arm - waver ! That word - mouther ! " I stopped , realizing that it was more dignified to ignore such colleagues - if the word fits . But that popinjay was so conceited that - well , if the ...
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... role ! I had once played the lead in L'Aiglon and I had played Caesar in the only two plays about him worthy of the name . But to play such a role in life — well , it is enough to make one understand how a man could go to the guillotine ...
... role ! I had once played the lead in L'Aiglon and I had played Caesar in the only two plays about him worthy of the name . But to play such a role in life — well , it is enough to make one understand how a man could go to the guillotine ...
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... role - I rather think I would learn to like Jack the Ripper if I studied for the part . Look at it this way : to learn a role truly , you must for a time become that character . And a man either likes himself , or he commits suicide ...
... role - I rather think I would learn to like Jack the Ripper if I studied for the part . Look at it this way : to learn a role truly , you must for a time become that character . And a man either likes himself , or he commits suicide ...
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