The Fall of the TowersCome and enter Samuel Delany's tomorow, in this trilogy of high adventure, with acrobats and urchins, criminals and courtiers, fishermen and factory-workers, madmen and mind-readers, dwarves and ducheses, giants and geniuses, merchants and mathematicians, soldiers and scholars, pirates and poets, and a gallery of aliens who fly, crawl, burrow, or swim. |
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... breath . At first Jon thought his head had disappeared again . Then , as shock and surprise became as real as her wide eyes , her open mouth , he whispered , " Clea ! " And her hand went to her mouth . Clumsy ! he thought , and the word ...
... breath . At first Jon thought his head had disappeared again . Then , as shock and surprise became as real as her wide eyes , her open mouth , he whispered , " Clea ! " And her hand went to her mouth . Clumsy ! he thought , and the word ...
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... breath and started haltingly for- ward . The moonlight made the last hundred yards easy . He reached a vantage where he could look down through the wet leaves onto the stone . The sky was sheeted with mist ; the moon was an indis- tinct ...
... breath and started haltingly for- ward . The moonlight made the last hundred yards easy . He reached a vantage where he could look down through the wet leaves onto the stone . The sky was sheeted with mist ; the moon was an indis- tinct ...
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... breath , a gulping one . " That's why I hope I'm mad . That's why I hope what I'm doing now is drivel from the lunatic brain . I say I think my poems now are finer than anything I've ever done ; I only hope that is the judgment of a ...
... breath , a gulping one . " That's why I hope I'm mad . That's why I hope what I'm doing now is drivel from the lunatic brain . I say I think my poems now are finer than anything I've ever done ; I only hope that is the judgment of a ...
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