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ABOVE: L. Sprague de Camp, The Clocks of Iraz (New York: Pyramid Books, 1971), with cover by Jeffrey Jones.
ABOVE: L. Sprague de Camp, The Clocks of Iraz (New York: Pyramid Books, 1971), with cover by Jeffrey Jones.

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