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"If you turn away from the natural gifts that God has given you, or the universe has given you, you're going to grow old too soon."
- Ray Bradbury
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| Ixian Sight Mask | ||
| Device to allow the blind to see. |
| The Ixian mask was a black, gauzy affair which concealed the face from the forehead to below the chin. There were no eye slits in the mask. If one were to believe the Ixian boasts, the entire mask was a single eye. |
| Technovelgy from Children of Dune,
by Frank Herbert. Published by Putnam in 1976 Additional resources -
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