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In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality." ~ By His Bootstraps / Robert A. Heinlein" --
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In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality." ~ By His Bootstraps / Robert A. Heinlein"
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You are telling me that I did something because I was going to do something." "Well, didn't you? You were there." "No, I didn't--no... well, maybe I did, but it didn't feel like it." "Why should you expect it to? It was something totally new to your experience." "But... but--" Wilson took a deep breath and got control of himself. Then he reached back into his academic philosophical concepts and produced the notion he had been struggling to ..
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You'll dream, too, while that damned thing that Earth wouldn't own is dripping, dripping in the Cosmos House tonight.
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That's not a logical argument. I know it isn't. The thing isn't Earth-logic anyway.
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Niente che la Terra abbia mai generato ha provato l'indicibile sublimazione di furia devastatrice che questa cosa lascio scatenare sul proprio volto quando si guardo intorno venti milioni di anni fa e si vide circondata dalla desolazione e dal ghiaccio.
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Quel posto puzzava. Un odore bizzarro e composito, come puo esserci soltanto nelle baracche sepolte nel ghiaccio di un accampamento antartico, un misto di fetido sudore umano, e dell'afrore ammorbante d'olio di pesce ricavato dal grasso di foca sciolto. Un vago sentore di linimento combatteva l'odore muffito delle pellicce infradiciate dal sudore e dalla neve. Il sentore acre del grasso alimentare bruciato, e l'odore animale e non del tutto..
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