It was, Kirk thought, like standing in a gully, watching a boulder teeter precariously above you. It might fall at any minute, crushing your life out instantly

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Excerpt from 'Mid Pleasures and Palaces If I live I must, but I will avoid the couse quences as long as I can. Now, my dears, that is as much wisdom as you can