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Jinian Stareye
by Sheri S. Tepper
This is a work of fiction. All characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any
resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.
JINIAN STAR-EYE
A CORGI BOOK 0 552 131911 First publication in Great Britain
PRINTING HISTORY Corgi edition published 1988
Copyright ┬й 1986 by Sheri S. Tepper This book is set in 10/11 Melior
Corgi Books are published by Transworld Publishers Ltd., 61-63 Uxbridge Road, Ealing, London W5
5SA, in Australia by Transworld Publishers (Australia) Pty. Ltd., 15-23 Helles Avenue, Moorebank,
NSW 2170, and in New Zealand by Transworld Publishers (N.Z.) Ltd., Cnr. Moselle and Waipareira
Avenues, Henderson, Auckland.
Printed and bound in Great Britain by Cox & Wyman Ltd., Reading, Berks.

1
The Great Maze

So far as one could see from the outside, the Great Maze was merely a jungle of paths and hedges, trees
and bushes, a mighty entanglement lying to the south of the Pervasion of the Dervishes, stretching from
there away to the distant sea. Standing on the hill above the Maze, I had looked down into it to see
winding trails, clearings, pathways, even quite large open spaces with impenetrable edges of luxuriant
green, and in some of these spaces the easily recognized outline of well-known plants: rainhat bush,
thrilps, giant wheat. Only natural things.

I suppose if you took the top of my skull off and looked at the quivering stuff inside, you would see only
flesh, only natural things. Looking at that quaking jelly, one wouldn't see ideas or fears; no dreams would
leap from the pinky-gray convolutions to dance on the brain top.

So, when Peter and I stood beside the Great Maze of Lorn - which is the name the Shadowpeople give to
this world - we saw no memories rising from the clearings or insinuating their way through the
underbrush. And yet, according to Mind Healer Talley, who had told the Dervishes long before, the Maze
halds the memories of our world.

Each time I thought of this, my mind chased about for a moment and then stopped working. It was not
easy to believe, a whole world, remembering. A world actually thinking, planning. A world dreaming,
perhaps. A world regretting. A world dying.

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No. Not merely dying. Killing itself.