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htm (15 of 19)28-8-2007 11:23:25 - Chapter 11 ***It was often held, as Added to the roar and backfiringof out of tune engines were the squeals of badly maintained brakes, the squeaks of abused shockabsorbers, the whistles of leaking air tanks. These were clever traps and might have been sufficient, on their own, to prevent the rise of intelligentlife on Terra Nova. It madehim sick to his stomach to think that he had caused all this himself.
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