The aerial canoe had no visible means of support, he thought, and it was a measure of his terror that he did… — Philip José Farmer
The aerial canoe had no visible means of support, he thought, and it was a measure of his terror that he did not even think about his pun. No visible means of support. Like a magical vessel out of The Thousand and One Nights.
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