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| 47 | 44 | He View more quotes about took">took several more steps and suddenly his feet left the steel, and he turned about, helplessly, in the air, and he spun about, and tried to thrash toward the steel, and floated some feet from it. |
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| 47 | 41 | Now it seemed less a salvation than an encumbrance, a nuisance. |
| 47 | 42 | Then, sensing the possibility, he stood on the steel, his head pointing toward the opposing cap, far distant, almost invisible, at the other end of the world. |
| 47 | 43 | The sensation now was almost identical to that of the shuttles, in free flight amongst the cylinders. |
| 47 | 44 | He took several more steps and suddenly his feet left the steel, and he turned about, helplessly, in the air, and he spun about, and tried to thrash toward the steel, and floated some feet from it. |
| 47 | 45 | His body was suddenly covered with sweat. |
| 47 | 46 | Then a movement of the atmosphere brushed him, and he twisted his body to it, and waited, and waited, and, in a few seconds, one hand, covered with the adhesive substance used in his climb, struck against the steel, and he pulled himself down to it. |
| 47 | 47 | Then, keeping at least one limb, a foot or hand, on the steel, he made his way to the arsenal gate. |