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Edmund Cooper, The Slaves of Heaven (New York: Berkley, 1975), with cover by Paul Lehr.
Edmund Cooper, The Slaves of Heaven (New York: Berkley, 1975), 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