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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... random is actually part of a larger pattern . Such a perspective is indicated just after Jon asks his question , when Delany abruptly " cuts " to the Triple Being's parliament , where Jon's question seems " preposterous " ( p . 392 ) ...
... random is actually part of a larger pattern . Such a perspective is indicated just after Jon asks his question , when Delany abruptly " cuts " to the Triple Being's parliament , where Jon's question seems " preposterous " ( p . 392 ) ...
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... random at all " ( p . 372 ) . Even before such a state of enlightenment is attained , a sense of the random can be liberating rather than fearful . The psyche officer , playing randomax at the bar counter , says that " life . . . living ...
... random at all " ( p . 372 ) . Even before such a state of enlightenment is attained , a sense of the random can be liberating rather than fearful . The psyche officer , playing randomax at the bar counter , says that " life . . . living ...
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... random world , or the random observer in a world whose order is self - destructive ; that doesn't matter either . But me ? To me , that matters , who I am ; a clumsy kid , a prisoner , who is free now , and a man , and not so clumsy ...
... random world , or the random observer in a world whose order is self - destructive ; that doesn't matter either . But me ? To me , that matters , who I am ; a clumsy kid , a prisoner , who is free now , and a man , and not so clumsy ...
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