Irreconcilables: he should stay here and conform; he should — not stay here (remembering no time when he was not here, Harley could frame the second … - Brian Aldiss

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Irreconcilables: he should stay here and conform; he should — not stay here (remembering no time when he was not here, Harley could frame the second idea no more clearly than that). Another point of pain was that "here" and "not here" seemed to be not two halves of a homogeneous whole, but two dissonances.

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About Brian Aldiss

Brian Wilson Aldiss (August 18, 1925 – August 19, 2017) was an English writer of general fiction and science fiction.

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Birth Name: Brian Wilson Aldiss
Alternative Names: Brian W. Aldiss Jael Cracken Dr. Peristyle C. C. Shackleton
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