Manjam

Manjam sat with Kemal, who had come to wait out the voting with him.

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Each had a portion of the library that Manjam and his secret committee had collected and preserved.

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For all the talk of how a butterfly's wing in Beijing could cause a hurricane in the Caribbean, Manjam had explained to Kemal that pseudochaotic systems like weather were actually quite stable in their underlying patterns, and swallowed up random tiny fluctuations.

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I would write to a government official as myself, as Manjam.

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After Hassan, Tagiri, and Diko arrived, Manjam had them wait just a moment more for Hunahpu and Kemal.

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"Tagiri is a woman of astonishing compassion," said Manjam.

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"We had no hope, until you discovered the mutability of the past," said Manjam.

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"Why did you search the past, when you believed there was nothing you could do?" asked Manjam, smiling grimly.

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"I'm saying that we've used up all the easy-to-find resources," said Manjam.

Pastwatch, the Redemtion of Christopher Columbus Card, Orson Scott 1996

She pressed the button to open it as Manjam and Hassan also pressed their widely separated buttons, as Diko and Hunahpu and Kemal pressed the buttons on their field generators.

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