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Two days like icebergs bleak, blank, half-melting, all frigid, mainly out of sight, and definitely a threat to peace of mind drifted by and were good to put behind.

Roger Zelazny

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Roger Zelazny
Age: 58 †
Born: 1937
Born: May 13
Died: 1995
Died: June 14
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Euclid
Ohio
Roger Joseph Zelazny
Roger Joseph Christopher Zelazny
Harrison Denmark
Days
Melting
Half
Mainly
Peace
Blank
Two
Threat
Icebergs
Mind
Definitely
Frigid
Good
Sight
Drifted
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Behinds
Iceberg
Behind
Bleak

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