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"The permanent government now is the anchorpeople. They don't get elected, and year after year they're responding emotionally to this or that."
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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| Sol-Ido | ||
| The universal language of interplanetary travelers. |
| Kal watched solemnly the weaving of the muscles under the smooth skin of his friend’s broad back. Then: “He’s been stirring up things between decks, as well,” he muttered, in English. Ridge looked up from the wash bowl, surprised. Ordinarily they conversed in Sol-ido, the universal language of interplanetary travelers. “Think it means trouble?” he asked, likewise switching to his own mother tongue and lowering his voice. |
| Technovelgy from Water-Bound World,
by Harl Vincent. Published by Amazing Stories Quarterly in 1932 Additional resources -
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