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Great Moby Cities and War
My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip,
my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit
than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip. But you can
call me Ishmael.
It was a dark and stormy night during the best of times and the worst of
times when I came to realize that all children, except one, grow up. The
other awakes from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed in his bed into
a monstrous vermin! Then the cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the
retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. Clearly,
there was no possibility of taking a walk that day; it was the day my
grandmother exploded.
All this happened, more or less, far out in the uncharted backwaters of the
unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy.
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