“So it ends
As it begins.
Off we climb
And no one wins.”

— Adam Roberts , book Jack Glass: The Story of a Murderer

From Thom Gunn, “Seesaw” quoted in Part 3, “The Impossible Gun” Epigram (p. 261).
Jack Glass (2012)

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British writer known for speculative fiction and parody nov… 1965

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