The Game of Rat and Dragon

Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

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Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1955.

Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

_The Department of Political Science_ _Duke University_ FOREWORD BY FRITZ MORSTEIN MARX FIRST EDITION [Illustration] HYPERION PRESS, INC.

Jonathan Swift

1729 It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex,...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

Plato

Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION.

Ambrose Bierce

THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION, 1988 A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below.