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“...Take the leap, they said. Live the billionaire's myth of immortality. And why not now, I thought. What else was there for Ross to acquire? Give the futurists their blood money and they will make it possible for you to live forever. The pod would be his final shrine of entitlement.”

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Book:Zero K
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Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo

Don DeLillo is an American writer born on November 20, 1936. Known for his unique literary style and profound insights into modern society, his works often explore the impacts of technology, consumerism, and globalization. more

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Book:Phantasy, Image Consciousness and Memory, 1898-1925
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“Ah, friends, dear friends, as years go by and heads get gray, how fast the guests do go! Touch hands, touch hands, with those that stay. Strong hands to weak, old hands to young, around the Christmas board, touch hands. The false forget, the foe forgive, for every guest will go and every fire burn low and cabin empty stand. Forget, forgive, for who may say that Christmas Day may ever come to host or guest again! Touch hands.”

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Book:Holiday Tales: Christmas in the Adirondacks
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“In the first place, 'lycanthropy' is a fact of human nature. Men and women have actually been possessed by the belief that they are wolves or other animals, and they have, no doubt, acted on their delusion. In the old legends we are told that such a person was a woman by day and a wolf by night, and no doubt the 'fit' which transformed the human being into a creature of blind ferocity, running on all fours, gnashing its teeth and tearing to pieces all whom it encountered, occurred when the darkness came on, at the hour in which all that is morbid in mind and body is strongest. The were-wolf, then, is not a superstition but a fact, and a fact which goes very far in clearing up the early belief in metamorphosis.”

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Book:Collected Fiction Volume 1: 1888-1895
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“(Fregmento de El socialismo triunfante, o lo que sera de mi país dentro de 200 años, Francisco Piria, 1898) Durante el día, las calles centrales sólo están destinadas al movimiento de personas con sus respectivos carruajes, si así puede llamarse a una especie de canastos de alambre, niquelados uno y dorados otros, forrados de fina seda, sostenidos por un eje de aluminio que descansa sobre dos ruedas del mismo metal, con llantas de goma, movidos eléctricamente algunos, mientras los más eran impulsados por el aire comprimido, que tantos beneficios ha reportado en la vida actual, según el invento hecho por el célebre Oscar Rossini á mediados de este siglo. Gracias al invento de Rossini se ha podido resolver fácilmente la vialidad aérea,y últimamente,basado en el mismo invento,el ingeniero Roberto Ascasio,de la facultad de Bahía Blanca, ha inventado el volador, osea un pequeño carruaje aéreo, que remontándose a la altura que uno quiere, recorre el espacio con la velocidad de tres kilómetros por minuto.”

1898El Socialismo TrinfanteFrancisco Piria
Book:Relatos de Montevideo
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