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Samuel R. Delany, The Jewels of Aptor (New York: Ace, 1968), with cover by Jeffrey Jones.
Samuel R. Delany, The Jewels of Aptor (New York: Ace, 1968), 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