“He was going to die. His mind flinched back in horror from that, but it was still there, grinning, implacable. His body would rot under the ground, while delicious things were still happening in the sunlight.”

— Damon Knight , book A for Anything

Source: A for Anything (1959), Chapter 6 (p. 66)

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American science fiction writer, editor and critic 1922–2002

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