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1. "I believe it " announced Tafe complacently. "That my dear " said Ambrose "is because you grew up in a rough and violent world here just managing to live from day to day is easily considered a miracle. You are able to accept the truth no matter how astonishing its guise. Whereas our friend Hocker here is steeped in the overweening rationalism of his time and could mentally dismiss a mastodon in front of him if it happened to be wearing the wrong school tie." ~ K.W. Jeter

2. "He turned away from me, the better to hide the exclamation of annoyance which he muttered under his breath; I caught only what seemed to be the syllable cog (perhaps a reference to my mechanical trade) and the word succour (a prayer for divine assistance?)." ~ K.W. Jeter

3. "Tut, tut. We can't let mere sentiment intrude. This is Science." ~ K.W. Jeter

4. "Over the vistas broke a cold gray light, such as seen in those false dawns that are neither night nor true morning, when the world and all its contents seem but shapes of mist, formed in vain hope and desire... If you awake from troubled sleep at such a time, you can only sit by the window and think of those that have been lost to you, those that followed your parents into those cold and heartless regions below the grass, silent and dark. Eventually, morning comes and the world resumes its solidity, but another tiny thread of ice has been stitched into your heart forever." ~ K.W. Jeter

5. "Adventures, I reflected, are all very fine but a certain amount of civilised comfort forms the true kernel of our desires." ~ K.W. Jeter

6. "And if I were to open you up - would you see anything less remarkable? Less intricately dazzling, in its squelching, spongy way? Lungs and heart and spleen, and all the rest - ticking away, as it were? Yet you walk down the boulevard, and pass any number of such wonderful devices, all ticking away as they walk, and think it no great marvel." ~ K.W. Jeter

7. "Life's nothing but the beating you take before you die. And I've died so many times already. Killed and lost so much. The remains." ~ K.W. Jeter

8. "Age, like wealth is but a mental abstraction, my boy"~ Herr Doktor Pavel" ~ K.W. Jeter

9. "...in an area such as this the possibility of violence for the sake of robbery or even mere amusement is always something to be reckoned with. Our little expeditionary party had tried to dress as plainly as possible, but our great-cloaks simply by their cleanliness attracted the sinister attention of the loiterers on the street." ~ K.W. Jeter

10. "If you are connected you're fucked." ~ K.W. Jeter

11. "Creff, my factotum, interrupted the breakfast he had brought me only a few minutes earlier and announced that a crazed Ethiope was at the door, presumably to buy a watch." ~ K.W. Jeter

12. "I like commas." ~ K.W. Jeter

13. "What is the future going to be like, then?' 'Hey, it's gonna be a gas,' Scape assured me. 'If you're into machines and stuff - like I am - you'd go for it. People are gonna have all kinds of shit. Do whatever they want with it. That's why it didn't faze me when ol' Bendray first told me about wanting to blow up the world. Hey - in the Future, everybody will want to!" ~ K.W. Jeter

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