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"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."
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| Perpetual Train | ||
| A vast machine that lays its own tracks as it moves forward. |
| Ahead... was the perpetual train.
Judah had walked its length, skirting the crews. it was a rolling-stock town, an industrial citylet that crawled. At the end of a no-man's-land of empty rails, he saw the work. New Crobuzon reaching so far. The leviathan unfolding of metal, the greatest city in Bas-lag rolling out its new iron tongue, licking at the cities across the plains. |
| Technovelgy from Iron Council,
by China Mieville. Published by Del Rey in 2004 Additional resources -
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