In Hot Pursuit of Happiness — page 12

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the storyteller settles in — Klapaucius leans back, the wall behind him beginning to dissolve into the cosmos he's about to invoke; Trurl, having finally sat down, listens

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the named constellation, as a baroque flourish — the reader sees what Klapaucius invokes; no figures, just the cosmos as ornament

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first glimpse of Troglodyne's kingdom — a bleak silhouette landscape under cosmic indifference; no king yet, just the geometry of cruelty

Klapaucius says: Beneath the constellation of the Southern Cross there lies the kingdom of King Troglodyne

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