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From: tc@amd.UUCP (Tom Crawford)
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Subject: Clifford D. Simak
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Date: Tue, 19-Mar-85 10:17:09 EST
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<This line is for Lucy Fisher>

One of my favorite authors is Clifford D. Simak and one of my
favorite books by him is -Way Station-.  One of the reasons I
like Simak is because he writes good prose:

	This was the Earth, he thought-a planet made for Man.  But
not for Man alone, for it was as well a planet for the fox and
owl and weasel, for the snake, the katydid, the fish, for all the
other teeming life that filled the air and earth and water.  And
not for these natives alone, but for other beings that called other
earths their home, other planets that far light-years distant were
basically the same as Earth.  For Ulysses and the Hazers and
all the rest of them who could live upon this planet, if need be,
if they wished, with no discomfort and no artificial aids.

				Tom Crawford