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| 49 | 60 | It was on this View more quotes about ship">ship that not Grendel but Tiresias would seek the steel world. |
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| 49 | 57 | Consider a crossbow set in place, with its quarrel in the guide, a crossbow trained on a distant target. |
| 49 | 58 | It might remain quiescent, indefinitely, until the trigger was pulled, and then the quarrel would move to the target. |
| 49 | 59 | So, too, the ship, a ship without sails, a ship which might scorn both water and air, a ship which might by itself seek its far port. |
| 49 | 60 | It was on this ship that not Grendel but Tiresias would seek the steel world. |
| 49 | 61 | The point of this was to make available to him the biological science of the steel-world that, by its knowledge of, and manipulation of, the hereditary coils, tissue might be regenerated. |
| 49 | 62 | I am told that burned, ruined flesh might be restored, that limbs might be regrown, that eyes, from one's own hereditary coils, might be formed anew. |
| 49 | 63 | Thus, if all went well, Tiresias might again see, as well or better than before. |