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Название книги: THE MAGIC LABYRINTH
Автор(ы): Philip Farmer
Жанр: Научная Фантастика
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For Harlan Ellison, Leslie Fiedler, and Norman Spinrad, alivest of the alive
AUTHOR'S FOREWORD
Now ends the Riverworld series, all loose ends tied together into a sword-resisting Gordian knot, all the human mysteries revealed, the millions of miles of The River and the many years of quests and The Quest completed.Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Labyrinth's single clue ... Where ‘twill be man's to see the whole of what on Earth he sees in part...The Kasidah of Haji Abdu Al-Yazdi
SECTION 1
The Mysterious Stranger
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"EVERYBODY SHOULD FEAR ONLY ONE PERSON, AND THAT PERson should be himself."That was a favorite saying of the Operator.The Operator had also spoken much of love, saying that the person most feared should also be much loved.The man known to some as X or the Mysterious Stranger neither loved nor feared himself the most.There were three people he had loved more than he loved anybody else.His wife, now dead, he had loved but not as deeply as the other two.His foster mother and th