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This is a test. Take notes. This will count as 3/4 of your final grade.
Deathbird Stories (1975)
Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpaste?
Deathbird Stories (1975)
Provisos of equal time are not served by one viewpoint having media access to two hundred million people in prime time while opposing viewpoints are provided with a soapbox on the corner.
Deathbird Stories (1975)
I’m afraid I felt a straight pin of jealousy. Perfection does that to me.
Deathbird Stories (1975)
There comes a point in the downward slide of the human condition when a man ceases to be a man. He may still walk erect, but it is principally a matter of skeletal arrangement, not ethics.
Deathbird Stories (1975)
These are the sounds in the night: First, the sound of darkness, lapping at the edges of a sea of movement, itself called silence. Then, second, the fingertip-sensed sound of the cyclical movement of the universe as it gnaws its way through the dust-film called Time. And last, the animal sounds of two people making love. The moist sounds of two bodies in concert.
Deathbird Stories (1975)
Gods can do anything. They fear nothing: they are gods. But there is one rule, one Seal of Solomon that can confound a god, and to which all gods pay service, to the letter:
When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
When the last acolyte renounces his faith and turns to another deity, the god ceases to be.
Deathbird Stories (1975)