“He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind—but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.”

— Vernor Vinge , A Fire Upon the Deep (1st edition)

Source: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 31 (p. 373).

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