![]() ![]() That item from near the beginning of the first book has stuck in my mind all these years and I started to wonder why that snippet has remained so fresh that it was what popped into my head when I saw "Cities in Flight" mentioned. ![]() My point is that I last read Cities in Flight in about 1970 When the omnibus volume was published but I had first read them starting in the late 50s as I found them as individual stories and not in the order that they took when assembled into the single volume in 1970. "Against Death Doth no Simple Grow!" (well google says it translates as "No herbs have grown against death!" but I like the Blish version.) ![]() Wider den Tod ist kein Kräutern gewachsen!Īnd he attempts to read it via the "if-only-it-were-english-system" he gets it to come out as "The Fatter Toad is Waxing on the kine's coleslaw. This immediately brought to mind the scene where the space pilot is dropping off his soil samples and he is is looking at the company motto of the big Pharma firm on the wall. ![]()
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