they told him that North was at the top. He knew better. But he did write a nice round hand, like a boy's hand. He knew Spanish, and enough English. For the sector that was assigned to him he would not need a map. He knew it better than anyone else, certainly better than any mapmaker. Besides, he was poor and needed the money. Raphael Aloysius Lafferty was an American science fiction and fantasy writer known for his original use of language, metaphor and narrative structure, as well as for his etymological wit.

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