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ABOVE: Roger Zelazny, Isle of the Dead (Ace, 1985), with cover by Paul Lehr.
ABOVE: Roger Zelazny, Isle of the Dead (Ace, 1985), with cover by Paul Lehr.

I should have been a pair of ragged claws,
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
--T.S. Eliot,
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock