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  1. Roger Zelazny _ This Immortal

    It is said that the dead forget the dead in the house of Hades, Cassandra, but I hoped it was not so.
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  2. Roger Zelazny _ This Immortal

    My mind spun for a second before it drifted, and in that second I knew that of all pleasures-a drink of cold water when you are thirsty, liquor when you are not, sex, a cigarette after many days without one-there is none of them can compare with sleep. Sleep is best. . . .
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  3. Roger Zelazny _ This Immortal

    So feathers or lead?" I asked him. "Pardon?" "It is the riddle of the kallikanzaros. Pick one." "Feathers?" "You're wrong." "If I had said lead' . . .?" "Uh-uh. You only have one chance. The correct answer is whatever the kallikanzaros wants it to be. You lose." "That sounds a bit arbitrary." "Kallikanzaroi are that way. It's Greek, rather than Oriental subtlety. Less inscrutable, too. Because your life often depends on the answer, and the kallikanzaros generally wants you to lose.
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  4. Roger Zelazny _ This Immortal

    I've always been impulsive. My thinking is usually pretty good, but I always seem to do it after I do my talking-by
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  5. Roger Zelazny _ This Immortal

    I'm all right now," I said, "but leave me alone. I'm going down to the river to bathe." I took seven steps, and then someone must have pulled out the plug, because I gurgled, everything swirled, and the world ran away down the drain.
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  6. Roger Zelazny _ This Immortal

    I've always been impulsive. My thinking is usually pretty good, but I always seem to do it after I do my talking-by which time I've generally destroyed all basis for further conversation.
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  7. Roger Zelazny _ This Immortal

    Far below, the ocean was a bluegray rug being pulled out from beneath us."
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  8. Roger Zelazny _ This Immortal

    As for the rest of him, his function is rather like that of an anti-computer: you feed him all kinds of carefully garnered facts, figures, and statistics and he translates them into garbage.
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  9. Roger Zelazny _ This Immortal

    Dress Blacks mag-bind down the sides, leaving a smooth front whereon is displayed a green-blue-gray-white Earth insignia, about three inches in diameter, high up on the left breast; below, the symbol for one's department is worn, followed by the rank-sigil; on the right side goes every blessed bit of chicken manure that can be dreamt up to fake dignity-this, by the highly imaginative Office of Awards, Furbishments, Insig-niae, Symbols and Heraldry {OAFISH, for short-its first Director appreciated his position}.
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  10. Roger Zelazny _ This Immortal

    we avoided their swarms by putting one foot in front of another without pause and making noises of our own. We didn't step on anybody who squashed.
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  11. Roger Zelazny _ This Immortal

    And then the night wind, cool through arches of the years, came hounding after me.
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  12. Roger Zelazny _ This Immortal

    Nothing is cheaper than past glories.
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