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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Page 94
... woman who lives across the street and me , we figured it out . We both bought it from the same woman this morn- ing , and that's all it could be . I never eat the stuff myself , but I served it for lunch . " " Well , I'm still hungry ...
... woman who lives across the street and me , we figured it out . We both bought it from the same woman this morn- ing , and that's all it could be . I never eat the stuff myself , but I served it for lunch . " " Well , I'm still hungry ...
Page 184
... woman with the tight bun and the high black dress who drank only soft drinks and amassed phenomenal scores on the gaming machines . A woman with a scarf around her head was setting out a garbage can in front of the building . " Up ...
... woman with the tight bun and the high black dress who drank only soft drinks and amassed phenomenal scores on the gaming machines . A woman with a scarf around her head was setting out a garbage can in front of the building . " Up ...
Page 364
... woman . Her face went white , then red . “ Oh , I can't find it ! Who has stolen it ? Will nobody answer me ! Don't you know who I am ! How dare you treat me like this ! Haven't you any respect ! " Despair , like the chill water ...
... woman . Her face went white , then red . “ Oh , I can't find it ! Who has stolen it ? Will nobody answer me ! Don't you know who I am ! How dare you treat me like this ! Haven't you any respect ! " Despair , like the chill water ...
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