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The night ... it is filled with bestial watchmen, trammeling the extremities and the interstices of the timeless city, portents fallen, constellated deities plummeting in ash and smoke, roaming the apocryphal cities, the cities of speculation and reconstituted disorder, of insemination and incipience, swept round with the dark.

Samuel R. Delany

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Samuel R. Delany
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 1
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Cartoonist
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New York City
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