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 109
... cried . The first tears through all that pain came salty in his eyes , and he cried until he went to sleep . Quorl had medicine for him the next day ( " From the priest , " he said . ) which helped the pain and made the heal- ing start ...
... cried . The first tears through all that pain came salty in his eyes , and he cried until he went to sleep . Quorl had medicine for him the next day ( " From the priest , " he said . ) which helped the pain and made the heal- ing start ...
Page 137
... cried . Then the road fell . They screamed out , they scrambled ; there was cracked concrete around them . They had fallen . Above them was a jagged width of blue sky between the remaining edges of the road . " My foot's caught ...
... cried . Then the road fell . They screamed out , they scrambled ; there was cracked concrete around them . They had fallen . Above them was a jagged width of blue sky between the remaining edges of the road . " My foot's caught ...
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... cried out , " Oh , keep him quiet I tell you ! " The beefy man flung his foot like a club into the doctor's back and laughed when he splashed for- ward . Then he hoisted him back up . " I can't find it ! " screeched the woman . Her face ...
... cried out , " Oh , keep him quiet I tell you ! " The beefy man flung his foot like a club into the doctor's back and laughed when he splashed for- ward . Then he hoisted him back up . " I can't find it ! " screeched the woman . Her face ...
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