Blaine remembered how strange, dark, atavistic and noble Hull's lordly selection of death has seemed. Pretentious, of course; but then, life itself was a pretension in the vast universe of unliving matter. (Robert Sheckley)

Blaine remembered how strange, dark, atavistic and noble Hull's lordly selection of death has seemed. Pretentious, of course; but then, life itself was a pretension in the vast universe of unliving matter.

Robert Sheckley

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