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TURJAN OPENED HIS EYES. HE WAS BACK ON EARTH.

It was night in the city of Kaiin, and festival time. Orange lanterns floated
in the air, and from the balconies dangled flower chains and cages of blue
fireflies. The streets surged with the wine-flushed populace, costumed in a
multitude of bizarre modes. Here was a Melantine bargeman, here a warrior of
Valdaran's Green Legion, here another of ancient times wearing one of the old
helmets. In a clearing, a garlanded courtesan of the Kauchique littoral danced
the Dance of the Fourteen Silken Movements to the musk of flutes. In the
shadows a girl barbarian embraced a man blackened and in leather harness as a
Deodand of the forest....

They were gay, these people of waning Earth, feverishly merry, for infinite
night was close at hand, when the red sun should finally flicker and go black.

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THE DYING EARTH

Jack Vance

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THE DYING EARTH

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