70. dictionary of survival sex

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"Cloud-shadows of seasons revisit the earth,
odourless myrrh borne by the wandering kings."

--Geoffrey Hill

" No one really believes these alien planets you invented are actually there; to be honest, no one really believes this bus station you drew so painstakingly from life is actually there."

TOLKRI RODA
Inspector Pyrrho
Ice Station Buddha

TOLKRI RODA
eucalyptus panda
dum spiro, spero

TOLKRI RODA
Inspector Pyrrho

car exhaust white
where it hits the sun
at a light on Campbell

smell of leather gloves
blends with the smell of hot asphault
scratch my nose downtown Richardson

the dentist scene in Tlooth
if the sun's rays are a koan

smell of truck exhaust
cut with the rain

he has laid out the cards
seen what can be done

not with another draw

As Silverberg comments in his introduction to 'Dancers in the Time-Flux' (1983), a story set in the same universe as Son of Man, his goal was 'to reproduce in prose form some of the visionary aspects of life in that heady era [the 1960s] and pass off the result as a portrait of the far, far future.' "