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... mountain so big his mind slowed when he looked at it Yet he built a shack on the shore learned to roast porcupine belly and wore the quills on his hatband At first he was out with the dawn whether it yellowed bright as wood - columbine ...
... mountain so big his mind slowed when he looked at it Yet he built a shack on the shore learned to roast porcupine belly and wore the quills on his hatband At first he was out with the dawn whether it yellowed bright as wood - columbine ...
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... mountain people , the lightheartedness of a people never conquered by arms — and yet the monster of the mines lies dead beneath their homes , its scattered mouths decaying in a final spittle of stones . Into this piled - up town beneath ...
... mountain people , the lightheartedness of a people never conquered by arms — and yet the monster of the mines lies dead beneath their homes , its scattered mouths decaying in a final spittle of stones . Into this piled - up town beneath ...
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... mountain side . At intervals giant pickaxes are hung on long hydraulic springs . The skiers ride propped by the axehead , twin automatons . supported by its handle , one each side . In twos they move slow motion up the steep incision in ...
... mountain side . At intervals giant pickaxes are hung on long hydraulic springs . The skiers ride propped by the axehead , twin automatons . supported by its handle , one each side . In twos they move slow motion up the steep incision in ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | xxi |
TOM WAYMAN | xxv |
INTRODUCTION | xxvii |
Copyright | |
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