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![[mars flag]](../images/f/fic_sisl.gif)
image by Marc Pasquin, 1999
From Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein:
Harshaw drew a rectangle, sketched in it the traditional human symbol for Mars, a circle with an arrow leading out from it to the upper right. "Make the field in white and the sigil of Mars in red — should be sewed in buntingsilkof course, but with a clean sheet and a bucket ofsomepaint any Boy Scout could improvise one in ten minutes".
Underlined text appears in the 1992 uncut version, striken as in 1965 original version –
Ed.
reported by John S. Ayer and Herman De Wael, January 1999
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