Death and the Serpent: Immortality in Science Fiction and FantasyCarl B. Yoke, Donald M. Hassler |
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... never slept . She spoke the language of a forgotten epoch , mingling extreme salacity with lofty euphemisms and punctilios of grammar . She was long past being comical , and smelled like bad haddock . Some said she was phosphorescent in ...
... never slept . She spoke the language of a forgotten epoch , mingling extreme salacity with lofty euphemisms and punctilios of grammar . She was long past being comical , and smelled like bad haddock . Some said she was phosphorescent in ...
Page 83
... Never Grew Young " NICK O'DONOHOE Immortals might fail to rejoice for any number of reasons . Tithonus of Greek myth and the Struldbruggs from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels feel the infirmity of age beyond normal human suffering ...
... Never Grew Young " NICK O'DONOHOE Immortals might fail to rejoice for any number of reasons . Tithonus of Greek myth and the Struldbruggs from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels feel the infirmity of age beyond normal human suffering ...
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... Never Grew Young , " he juxtaposes these paragraphs : I often wonder why I never grow young . It is still as much a mystery to me as to the brown farmers who kneel in awe when I walk past . I envy those who grow young . I yearn for the ...
... Never Grew Young , " he juxtaposes these paragraphs : I often wonder why I never grow young . It is still as much a mystery to me as to the brown farmers who kneel in awe when I walk past . I envy those who grow young . I yearn for the ...
Contents
Is There Life After Immortality? | 19 |
A Recent Idea | 39 |
The Elves of J R R Tolkien and Sylvia | 57 |
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