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"The world is really so surreal these days that it's necessary for us to blunt it somehow in order to stay sane. The artist functions to short-circuit the buffering mechanism, so that people can occasionally perceive the weirdness of things as they are."
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Many readers probably recall this word used by Frank Herbert in Dune:
Larry Niven adds one to his copseye surveillance device from Cloak of Anarchy:
The phrase "stun gun" as also used, as by William L Bade in Lost Ulysses (1949):
Compare to the Leyden Ball from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1875) by Jules Verne and the electric rifle from Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle (1911) by Victor Appleton. Comment/Join this discussion ( 1 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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