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   From: bredband.net@ojevind.lang   
      
   "Steve Morrison"  skrev i meddelandet   
   news:x4udnUJS0YuUzBnXnZ2dnUVZ_g1i4p2d@posted.toastnet...   
   > Öjevind Lång wrote:   
      
   [snip]   
      
   >>>> Asimov was a great science fiction writer, but I think his   
   >>>> anti-religious propaganda was very crude. In one standalone novel   
   >>>> ("Worlds at War?" Im not sure about the title, but the hero was called   
   >>>> Biron Farill), most of Earth is radioactive - by implication, because   
   >>>> of nuclear war.   
   >>>   
   >>> /The Stars, Like Dust/.   
   >>   
   >> That's right. Thank you! Wonderful title, by the way. Is it a quotatuion   
   >> from some poem?   
   >>   
   >> Öjevind   
   >   
   > It is, but from a poem within the novel itself. In chapter 3, we're told   
   > that Biron had once written this:   
   >   
   >   The stars, like dust, encircle me   
   >   In living mists of light;   
   >   And all of space I seem to see   
   >   In one vast burst of sight.   
   >   
   > on the occasion of his first space voyage.   
      
   That's pretty good. It must have been composed by Asimov himself.   
      
   Öjevind   
      
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