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Stendahl turned for a reat House, across the moat, to where a helicopter waited

"Ready, Pikes?"

"Ready"

"There it goes!"

They looked at the great House, san to crack down the nificent sight he heard Pikes reading behind him in a low, cadenced voice: "'asunder--there was a long tu sound like the voice of a thousand waters--and the deep and dank tarn at ments of the House of Usher'"

The helicopter rose over the stea lake and flew into the west

August 2005: THE OLD ONES

And what more natural than that, at last, the old people co in the trail left by the loud frontiersmen, the aromatic sophisticates, and the professional travelers and rorist

And so the dry and crackling people, the people who spent their ti th

eir pulses and spooning syrups into their wry mouths, these people who once had taken chair cars to California in November and third-class steamers to Italy in April, the dried-apricot people, the mummy people, came at last to Mars

September 2005: THE MARTIAN

The blue mountains lifted into the rain and the rain fell down into the long canals and old LaFarge and his wife came out of their house to watch

"First rain this season," LaFarge pointed out

"It's good," said his wife

"Very welcome"