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that she had been searching for a long time.
searching for for
it’s difficult to see how the Banu Sasan live, up from a muhtasib tower.’
from up in
like a gogol from the desert.
'
He went into a lot of trouble
went to
swarm over me like lilliputs over Gulliver,
Lilliputians
who hitching rides to the top of the Shards on elevators,
hitch
Why does the ship has to spoil it?
have to
And that’s when the diamond policeman from space hits me in the face.
The city he had been searching was there,
searching for
I’m going to find a job that does not involve breaking into giant machines full of lesbian dragon sex, the ship says.
I’m still in a bad shape:
in bad shape
The song is almost as complex as the one she sung when she made the ship,
sang
‘Please allow me welcome you
to welcome
tiny, waving tendrils.
No comma
two or three manta-ray like gliders
manta-ray-like
does not have the kind of harmony as her assignation room,
the same kind
like written by a child.
as if
especially in the wartime.
in wartime
just above peoples’ heads
people's
We will take to my Father’s house
take you
She remembers old stories,
Aren't stories forbidden? (Though she is rebellious.)
the other shaping, the other watching,
the one... the other
arcs that stretch around the planet in an oval shape, in geostationary orbits, over a hundred thousand kilometres in diameter.
Geostationary orbits are only equatorial and at a specific height. I don't think this makes astrophysical sense.
is the open of mouth of
Omit first "of"
Don Luis Perenna,
Another Arsene Lupin alias.
Syd�n says looks at Amtor City,
Omit "says"
Masrurs, they are called, jinn insurgents:
The 7th and last time this word is used, the author finally tells us what it means.
Once we have dealt with our sister – with the help of our brothers the vasilevs – we will be back.
Amber echo - brothers and sisters, daggers drawn
this dictates some drastic actions from our part.
on our part
getting a girl into trouble.
This is an English idiom, meaning getting her pregnant - not the case here.
retrieving the gogol and and transmitting it
Omit second "and"
until I see wildcode twist my hands sapphire claws.
hands into
That’s when I was born, out of the crystal stopper.
Another Lupin reference (it's the title and McGuffin of one of the books).
she seems to take my sudden appearance in a stride.
in stride
