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I mean, after all; you have to consider we’re only made out of dust. That’s admittedly not much to go on and we shouldn’t forget that. But even considering, I mean it’s a sort of bad beginning, we’re not doing too bad. So I personally have faith that even in this lousy situation we’re faced with we can make it. You get me?
The key glacier, Ol’ Skintop, had retreated 4.62 Grables during the last twenty-four-hour period. And the temperature, at noon in New York, had exceeded the previous day’s by 1.46 Wagners. In addition the humidity, as the oceans evaporated, had increased by 16 Selkirks.
Gotta love technobabble
Ethan liked this
be choosy. Chew Chew-Z.”
Who ever heard of a suitcase being dominated by minds from an alien star-system?”
I certainly hadn't
“With Chew-Z one can pass from life to life, be a bug, a physics teacher, a hawk, a protozoon, a slime mold, a streetwalker in Paris in 1904,
however wonderful being Perky Pat and Walt is for a while, eventually they’re forced to return to their hovels. Do you know how that feels, Leo? Try it sometime; wake up in a hovel on Ganymede after you’ve been freed for twenty, thirty minutes. It’s an experience you’ll never forget.”
Like when you wake up from a dream you were really enjoying and the crippling realization that the dream was fake dawns on you
It takes a certain amount of courage, he thought, to face yourself and say with candor, I’m rotten. I’ve done evil and I will again. It was no accident; it emanated from the true, authentic me.
Tomorrow morning, he decided, I’ll begin clearing away the sand of fifty thousand centuries for my first vegetable garden. That’s the initial step.
The time, then, had come for him to poison himself so that an economic monopoly could be kept alive, a sprawling, interplan empire from which he now derived nothing. Amazing, he thought, how strong the self-destructive drive can be.
“It’s not that you’re so inadequate,” he said. “It’s just that I have high standards.”
Mournfully, she followed him to the door of the conapt, here in building 11139584—counting outward from downtown New York—where
Palmer Eldritch had gone to Prox a man and returned a god.
