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Old 24-April-2007, 05:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Roy Batty View Post
This is an old favourite of mine & one of the 1st contemporary fantasy books I ever read (recently interested to hear it's to made into a film!):

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He stretched out his right hand with its fingers spread stiff towards his family, and saw them instantly caught into a stop in time, frozen out of all movement. Like waxworks they stood stiff and motionless round the room.
I haven't a clue. Any chance of a hint?
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The quarrelsome oarsmen were rowing,
The great violinist was bowing;
But how is the sage
To tell, from the page:
Was it pigs or seeds that were sowing?
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