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Limbo '90
by Bernard Wolfe
PENGUIN BOOKS

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LIMBO '90

BERNARD WOLFE

First published 1952 First published in England by Secker and Warburg 1953 This abridged edition
published in Penguin Books 1961 Copyright ┬й Bernard Wolfe, 1952

To the Boss

Since all the characters in this book are real, any resemblance between them and imaginary persons is
entirely accidental.

Raymond Queneau

Acknowledgements

The chart on pages 352-3 is from The Battle of the Conscience, by Edmund Bergler (Washington
Institute of Medicine), copyright 1948 by Edmund Bergler. The quotation on p. 57 is from Cybernetics,
by Norbert Wiener (The Technology Press and John Wiley & Sons Inc.), copyright 1948 by The
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The quotation on pages 364-5 is from Thomas Mann's
introduction to The Short Novels of Dostoevsky, copyright 1945 by The Dial Press.

...Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the
kingdom of heaven.

Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of
heaven...

Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee
to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.

ST MATTHEW, 18

Bah! Let's make all sorts of faces.

RIMBAUD (who became as a little child, and had his foot cut off, and died).

PART ONE
Tapioca Island
CHAPTER 1

'Much prognosis today,' the old man panted.

The climb up the mountain was hard for him, several times he had to lean against the trunk of a raffia