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Until last
year
, although this town was barely fifty miles from Denver, the road had been bad and only a handful of visitors had chanced on it. The increasing tendency for people to take mountain vacations, however, since the sea had become too filthy to be tolerable, could not be ignored. The road now was excellent and the area had exploded.
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Faust felt like this. The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, the devil will come and Faustus must be damned … How long did he buy with the currency of his soul — ten
years
?
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You have many
years
to live—do things you will be proud to remember when you're old.
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There's one bright spot in the generally gloomy picture know as the Pacific Conflict Zone. According to my calculations, by the
year
2500 or so we should have killed off every last member of our species who is stupid enough to take part in so futile a pastime as this war between ideals, and with luck they won't have left their genes behind because they'll typically have been killed at an age when society thinks they're too young to assume the responsibility of childbearing. After that we may get some peace and quiet for a change.
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When did you last bask in the sun, friends? When did you last dare drink from a creek? When did you last risk picking fruit and eating it straight from the tree? What were your doctor's bills last
year
? Which of you live in cities where you don't wear a filtermask? Which of you spent this
year
's vacation in the mountains because the sea is fringed with garbage?
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This
year
we take our vacation somewhere else. Where is there where Americans aren't likely to be stoned by a howling mob? Spain, Greece? No, got to be out of range of the stench from the Med.
Looks like we might as well stay home.
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Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.
Marcus Garvey
John Brunner
Born:
September 24, 1934
Died:
August 25, 1995
(aged 60)
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