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Boris and Arkady Strugatsky. The Snail on the Slope
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© Copyright Arcady And Boris Strugatsky Ў http://rusf.ru/abs/
© Copyright Introduction by Theodore Sturgeon.
© Copyright Translated from the Russian by Alan Meyers, 1980
© Copyright Bantam Books, Inc.
Origin: "Ulitka na sklone" Ў ulitka.txt
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Chapter One
From this height, the forest was like foam, luxuriant and blotchy, a
gigantic world--encompassing porous sponge, like an animal waiting in
concealment, now fallen asleep and overgrown with rough moss. A formless
mask hiding a face, as yet revealed to none.
Pepper shook off his sandals and sat down with his bare legs dangling
over the precipice. It seemed to him that his heels at once became damp, as
if he had actually immersed them in the warm lilac fog that lay banked up in
the shadows under the cliff. He fished out the pebbles he had collected from
his pocket and laid them out neatly beside him. He then selected the
smallest and gently tossed it down into the living and silent, slumbering,
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