• niktemadur@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    That very same vagueness works to great effect in Harlan Ellison’s short story “How’s The Nightlife On Cissalda?”, like so, the very first sentence:

    “When they unscrewed the time capsule, preparatory to helping temponaut Enoch Mirren to disembark, they found him doing a disgusting thing with a disgusting thing.”