“He gave up and went back to loafing, found that he could sleep all right in the afternoons but that the practice kept him awake at night.”
Source: Between Planets (1951), Chapter 17, “To Reset the Clock” (p. 173)
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“Death had to take him in his sleep, for if he was awake there'd have been a fight.”
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