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“I don’t think you know what it’s like to have someone head over heels in love with you. What’s the good of a man who’s upside down?”

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Frederik Pohl livre Man Plus

Source: Man Plus (1976), Chapter 7, “Mortal Becoming Monster” (p. 81)

“It was a nasty day in late December, just before the holidays. The weather was cold, wet, and miserable—well, I said it was London, didn’t I?”

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Waiting for the Olympians (p. 255)
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“Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time—’

That’s the sort of thing she would have written before the rise of advertising. The correlation is perfectly clear. Advertising up, lyric poetry down.”

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Frederik Pohl livre The Space Merchants

Source: The Space Merchants (1953), Chapter 4 (p. 48)

“She laughed out loud. It was a very nice laugh. No girl looks beautiful when she’s laughing hard, and girls who worry about looking beautiful don’t do it. Dorotha Keefer looked like a healthy, pretty girl having a good time, which when you come down to it is about the best way for a girl to look.”

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The Merchants of Venus (p. 22)
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“Scientists are an agnostic lot, of course—well, most educated people are, aren’t they?”

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Waiting for the Olympians (p. 269)
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“You could rule the nation—and yet you don’t seem to go after that power.”

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The mayor frowned. “Power, Mrs. O’Hare? You mean the chance to make laws and compel others to do what you want them to? Why, good heavens, Mrs. O’Hare, who in his right mind would want that?”
Servant of the People (p. 254)
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