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 EVEN THE APE-MAN HIMSELF HAS HIS
PRICE. . .
Thirty thousand or more years ago, some Old Stone Age peoples discovered something that
gave them an extremely extended youth. It also made them immune to any disease or breakdown
of the cells. Of course they could fall down and break their necks or slit their throats or get
clubbed to death. But if chance worked well for them, they could live for what must have
seemed forever . . . a man who took the elixir at the age of twenty-five would only look fifty at
the end of fifteen thousand years.
I don't know the history of what happened between 25,000 B.C. and 1913 when the agent of
the Nine first introduced himself. By then, the Nine consisted of Anana, a thirty-millennia old
Caucasian woman, XauXaz, Ing Iwaldi, a dwarf, a Hebrew born about 3 B.C., an ancient proto-
Bantu, two proto-Mongolians, and an Amerindian.
We "candidates," I estimate, numbered about five hundred. We were those who might be
chosen to replace one of the Nine if she or he died.

ETERNAL YOUTH
A Note From
Philip Jos├й Farmer:
Although the editors of Ace Books insist upon publishing this work as a novel under my
byline, it is actually Volume X of the Memoirs of Lord Grandrith, as edited by me for
publication. The British spellings and the anglicisms of Lord Grandrith have been changed by
me for an easier understanding by American readers.
The location of the caves of the Nine and several other places have purposely been made
inexact. This is for the benefit of any reader who might try to find these places.




LORD OF THE TREES
Copyright ┬й 1970 by Philip Jos├й Farmer



THE MAD GOBLIN
Copyrights ┬й1970 by Philip Jos├й Farmer




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