Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore,…

Iain Banks
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Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy. ✨ Iain Banks (2002). Look to Windward, p.213, Simon and Schuster
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