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Cory Doctorow

Return to Pleasure Island

  • dave80564has quoted9 years ago
    One night, a month after Orville had come out to the cabin, George slathered a muskrat's carcass with mayonnaise and lemon and dragonfly eggs and set it out for him and Joe.
  • dave80564has quoted9 years ago
    In the freezer, he had a jar of elephant-dung sauce, spiced with the wrung-out sweat of the big top acrobats' leotards, which, even after reheating, still carried the tang of vitality.
  • dave80564has quoted9 years ago
    It was the most important decision one of their kind ever made: a clever son of the left hand, or a strong son of the right. George knew that his son would come from the left hand. In the world his father had put them into, cleverness was far more important than strength.
  • dave80564has quoted9 years ago
    They both slept curled around the nest that night.
    By morning, the thumb had sprouted tiny arm- and leg-buds, and it inched itself blindly around the nest. George marveled at it before going to work.
  • dave80564has quoted9 years ago
    "Where's Bill today? He wasn't at his post."
    George said, "Bill had a son last night. From his left hand."
    Joe rolled his eyes, which had gone the murky yellow of swamp water. "Wonderful, right?
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