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  1. Philip K. Dick _ The Crack in Space

    The ignorance of the dark-skinned strata, despite the government's ceaseless educational campaigns. No wonder their women were often preg.
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  2. Philip K. Dick _ The Crack in Space

    They were a form of mutated twinning, joined at the base of the skull so that a single cephalic structure served both separate bodies. Evidently the personality George inhabited one hemisphere of the brain, made use of one eye: the right, as he recalled. And the personality Walt existed on the other side, distinct with its own idiosyncrasies, views and drives-and its own eye from which to view the outside universe.
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  3. Philip K. Dick _ The Crack in Space

    When you had hopes once,' Hadley explained after a pause, 'it's always hard to go on after you give them up. It's not so hard to give them up; that part is easy. After all, you've got to, sometimes. But afterward . . .' He gestured, grunting, '. . . What takes their place? Nothing. And the emptiness is frightening. It's so big. It sort of absorbs everything else; sometimes it's bigger than the whole world. It grows. It becomes bottomless.
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  4. Philip K. Dick _ The Crack in Space

    You stupid bastard, does what you're fighting for look so real now? Skin pigment. What a laugh! Why not eye color? Too bad nobody ever thought of that. It cuts it a little finer, but basically it's the same thing.
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