“As related, the bank was one of those eastern ones, with Roman pillars and cathedral dimness and, I suspect, a piece of Plymouth Rock in a reliquary.”

— Poul Anderson , book There Will Be Time

Source: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 5 (p. 52)

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American science fiction and fantasy writer 1926–2001

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