《Colouring the Captains 》作者： - Terry Dowling【EPUB】

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Terry DowlingCOLOURING THE CAPTAINSIn the Great Passage Book there are seven Coloured Captains. Their names havebecome famous: Golden Afervarro Red Lucas White Massen Green Glaive YellowTraven Black Doloroso and the last to be chosen — the Madman Blue Tysonknown to many as Tom Rynosseros.There are other National captains who have colours in their names —RustMorganus is one and Gray Ridley and the legendary Black Jack Temenos toname a few — just as there are other great captains high and low who arepermitted to cross most of the tribal territories. But there are only sevenNationals who are allowed to use all Roads to cross all the AbO States intheir fine sand-ships whose names and Colours have been entered in the GreatPassage Book.Is this what you wanted to hear You who sleep there in Cold People storagein your long safe cryogenic sleeves waiting in your hundreds to be graftedout on to constructs and surrogate bodies to make the Grand Tour hungry forsensate life again.I tell you there would be none of it no hope for you at all were it not forthe seven. This circuit is shielded the link is still open one of the few Ihave left so I can tell you. The world out here has changed since first youslept. The abiding spirit of an age can be rooted to many things: apreoccupation with identity with new lands and frontiers with sexualitymorality or repression nostalgia for the past with luxury and sacrifice.Then know that not since Pharaonic