“What do you see, Captain?”
“Two boys with hands locked for a fight. You see how one is light and the other is dark? I see love against death, light against darkness, chaos against order. I see the clash of all opposites under…the sun. I see Prince and myself.”
“Which is which?”

— Samuel R. Delany , book Nova

“I don’t know, Mouse.”
Source: Nova (1968), Chapter 4 (p. 119)

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American author, professor and literary critic 1942

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