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Soft as a lion-pad I heard the gun-carriages turn, saw them vomit and drool; the firmament sagged and all the stars turned black. Black ocean bleeding and the brooding stars breeding chunks of fresh-swelled flesh while overhead the birds wheeled and out of the hallucinated sky fell the balance with mortar and pestle and the bandaged eyes of justice. All that is here related moves with imaginary feet along the parallels of dead orbs; all that is seen with the empty sockets bursts like flowering grass. Out of the nothingness arises the sign of infinity; beneath...
...time comes for the hero to leave the beach. He unplugs everything, from the beach pad to the girl. Then he unplugs the lake itself; it shrinks to a small blue dot. He pumps up his car. He pumps up a highway and drives away...
...reader who wants to spot the comers can plunge into these pages and make his bets. But he will have to pick his way past a host of the noncomers, who can be divided roughly into two types: beatnik flashes-in-the-pad and talented people who, because they prefer assault on convention to communication, will spend their lives out of earshot...
...while the teacher recites the lesson and, if even that bores them, they are free to wander outside to play among the jungle gyms, the playboats and sandboxes, the swings and the barbecue pit. If a teacher asks for a composition, she is the one who gets out the pad and pencil; the student will dictate it to her and she will type...
...Saturn fired last week developed a thrust of 1,300,000 Ibs. Conceived in 1958 by Army Rocketeer Wernher von Braun. Saturn is a hybrid of eight 165,000-lb. engines clustered together like a bundle of cigars. As it stood on its Canaveral launching pad, the rocket towered 162 ft. high, weighed 462 tons...