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| Steel Teeth | ||
| Artificial teeth welded to the bone. |
| From the ship stepped Palmer Eldritch.
...his face... It had a ravaged quality, eaten away; as if, Barney conjectured, the fat-layer had been consumed, as if Eldritch at some time or other had fed off himself, devoured perhaps with gusto the superfluos portions of his own body. He had enormous steel teeth, these having been installed prior to his trip to Prox by Czech dental surgeons; they were welded to his jaws, were permanent: he would die with them. |
| Technovelgy from The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch,
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