"We were in the middle of a festival known as Christmas, which seem to take up the whole month of December. There was a big tree decorated with lights, and various other decorations hung around the buildings. Christmas was a time for spending money, traveling, and getting drunk. It had originally been a celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, but by the 1980s that had been largely forgotten, replaced by a new totem in a red suit and a false beard."
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Chapter 11, “Behold the Man” (p. 142)
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John Varley
John Herbert Varley (August 9, 1947 – December 10, 2025) was an American science fiction author.
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