Ubik
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“‘I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion, cheated of feature by dissembling nature—’” He paused, wrinkling his forehead. “How does it go, Matt?” he asked his brother. “‘—deformed, unfinished, sent before my time into this breathing world, scarce half made up,’” Matt the squirrel-like telepath said, scratching meditatively at his
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Dream
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stringbean of a girl with glasses and straight lemon-yellow
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A woolly-haired adolescent boy wrapped in a superior and cynical cloud of pride, this one, in a floral mumu and Spandex
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Woolly Haired adolescent stuck on himself
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mannish, thirtyish, sand-colored lady wearing
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An excessively tall, stoop-shouldered Negro with a gentle expression on his elongated face made a motion to indicate himself.
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Al Hammond
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anti-precogs.
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“Jon Ild,”
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The adolescent boy with the
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Adolescent big ego
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“Francesca Spanish,”
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The luminous, gypsy-like dark woman, radiating a peculiar jangled tautness,
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“Tito Apostos,”
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A bald-headed man, wagging a goatish beard,
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grand dignity,
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Joe felt impressed.
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“You’re an anti-animator,”
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“Okay, Sammy Mundo.”
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Mundo had the intelligence of a raccoon; he could walk, eat, bathe himself, even—after a fashion—talk. His anti-telepathic ability, however, was considerable. Once, alone, he had blanked out
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Sammy Mundo powerful but dumb
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Wendy Wright.”
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“Okay; that leaves Fred Zafsky.” He fixed his gaze on a flabby, big-footed, middle-aged, unnatural-looking individual with
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Trolley Dodgers,
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phantasmagoria—while
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Mors certa et hora certa,