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...that "I have a freak memory-I can remember indefinitely anything that is not important." Of his prizewinning novel he says: "I'm still amazed. I'd resigned myself to years of shipping it around." What is he thinking of calling it? Cooper points to the attic trunk where he used to hide his manuscripts when friends dropped in: "I've hit my knee and torn my pants on that trunk so many times that I've taken to calling the whole thing just...
...Defoe did, to make the reader's imagination whirl with mingled curiosity and alarm; but where Defoe found novelty in a human footstep, the science-fictioneer stakes everything on such inhuman images as "a six-foot egg made of greenish gelatin" or "nine feet of slimy green trunk tapering ... to a pointed top." Where Defoe laid down his ideas in a prose as plain as his images, his successor revels in portentous complexity, e.g., "Remembrance occurs when, at all the synapses in a given network 'y,' the permanently echoing frequencies are duplicated as transient circulating frequencies...
Customs Inspector William F. White measured the outside of the trunk, then the inside. "You got a false bottom in there," White accused...
...dockworker tore the false bottom out. White reached into the trunk and pulled out 8 Ibs. of fine Mettwurst, a German pork boloney, homemade by Bohling's relatives. White ripped the sausages to shreds, looking for dope or diamonds. There was only Mettwurst. The Department of Agriculture man confiscated it all pursuant to Bureau of Animal Industry Order No. 373, which forbids the importing of uncertified meat from countries infested with foot-and-mouth disease...
...population of the grotto doubled to more than 650. The newcomers were males. Dubkin sensed procreation, but nothing happened for a while. Then one day (night, that is, for the bats) he noted a "nervous tension." The air was full of pairs of bats zigzagging round the tree trunk. After three days of pursuit and flight, the bats reached their understandings. They hung in pairs, by their feet, caressing each other with wings and tongues, then retired into the greenery. Dubkin had discovered from researches in the public library that actual fertilization would not be accomplished until spring, after...