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"Consider Phlebas" by Iain Banks
Where the stars rose like a glittering cliff, the ship's exploding warheads had been
arranged in a crude code. The planet was not one they could simply attack, destroy
or even land on. It was near the region of barren space called the Sullen Gulf and it
was one of the forbidden Planets of the Dead.
The name Phlebas is from T.S. Eliot's "Waste Land." Eliot asked the reader to consider
Phlebas the Phoenician, a sailor who drowned at sea. The name has no mythological or
historical significance. The Tarot card "The Drowned Man" was also Phoenician but
unnamed. Eliot was portraying the finality of death without hope of reincarnation of any
type. Iain Banks used Eliot's trope as his title as a warning not to expect any salvation
for the story's characters.
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