“On his eighteenth day in the tiger cage, Robert Stoney began to lose hope of emerging unscathed.”

—  Greg Egan

Oracle http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/MISC/ORACLE/Oracle.html, published in Asimov's (July 2000)
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