Outline
Valérian is shredded by a salvo of shots in the palace of a Maharajah. Valérian, leaving a posh London club, falls unto an unfathomable abyss of space. Valérian, cut down in the back in a hail of bullets in Chinatown, San Francisco. Valérian, killed by thugs on the platform of an old Parisian bus. And Laureline, impotently watching this carnage of Valérian clones…
One of the strangest adventures in the Valérian series, where the two heroes get to grips with artificial worlds fight to defend their quite real happiness…
(translated from the back cover blurb to the French edition)
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Famous quotes containing the word outline:
“I am fooling only myself when I say my mother exists now only in the photograph on my bulletin board or in the outline of my hand or in the armful of memories I still hold tight. She lives on in everything I do. Her presence influenced who I was, and her absence influences who I am. Our lives are shaped as much by those who leave us as they are by those who stay. Loss is our legacy. Insight is our gift. Memory is our guide.”
—Hope Edelman (20th century)
“The outline of the city became frantic in its effort to explain something that defied meaning. Power seemed to have outgrown its servitude and to have asserted its freedom. The cylinder had exploded, and thrown great masses of stone and steam against the sky.”
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“A true poem is distinguished not so much by a felicitous expression, or any thought it suggests, as by the atmosphere which surrounds it. Most have beauty of outline merely, and are striking as the form and bearing of a stranger; but true verses come toward us indistinctly, as the very breath of all friendliness, and envelop us in their spirit and fragrance.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)