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Robert MacFarlane. The Crystal World
J. G. Ballard. The Crystal World
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Epigraph
CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE. THE DARK RIVER
CHAPTER TWO. THE JEWELLED ORCHID
CHAPTER THREE. MULATTO ON THE CATWALKS
CHAPTER FOUR. A DROWNED MAN
CHAPTER FIVE. THE CRYSTALLIZED FOREST
CHAPTER SIX. THE CRASH
CHAPTER SEVEN. MIRRORS AND ASSASSINS
CHAPTER EIGHT. THE SUMMER-HOUSE
CHAPTER NINE. SERENA
CHAPTER TEN. THE MASK
CHAPTER ELEVEN. THE WHITE HOTEL
CHAPTER TWELVE. DUEL WITH A CROCODILE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN. SARABAND FOR LEPERS
THE PRISMATIC SUN
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By day fantastic birds flew through the petrified forest, and jewelled crocodiles glittered like heraldic salamanders on the banks of the crystalline river.
By night the illuminated man raced among the trees, his arms like golden cartwheels, his head like a spectral crown…
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After apologizing for their mistake, the customs men glanced at each other and then cleared Sanders, chalking up his suitcases without bothering to open them. A few moments later he walked down the gangway. On the jetty the native soldiers lounged around the staff car. The rear seat remained vacant, presumably for the missing physicist from Libreville University.
As he handed his suitcases to a porter with ‘Hotel Europe’ stencilled across his peaked cap, Dr. Sanders noticed that a far more thorough inspection was being made of the baggage of those leaving Port Matarre. A group of thirty to forty steerage passengers was herded together at the far end of the jetty, and the police and customs men were searching them one by one. Most of the natives carried bed-rolls with them, and the police were unwinding these and squeezing the padding.
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