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What sort of world is it at all? Men on the moon and men spinning round the earth like it might be midges round a lamp, and there's not no attention paid to earthly law nor order no more.
What sort of world is it at all? Men on the moon and men spinning round the earth like it might be midges round a lamp, and there's not no attention paid to earthly law nor order no more.
Approximate author period: c. 1955 AD · modern
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- Anthony Burgess
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- Approximate author period: c. 1955 AD · modern
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