“Let those who think the soul is shallow rail,
They must be warned before they dare to leap
They'll plunge into the twilight depths where sweep
In ceaseless thirst great teeth too swift to fail.”

"Job's Leviathan" in JD Argassy #58 (1961); re-published in Pearls From Peoria (2006)

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American science fiction writer 1918–2009

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