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Frank Poole awoke, but he did not remember. He was not even sure of his name.
Obviously, he was in a hospital room: even though his eyes were still closed, the most primitive, and evocative, of his senses told him that. Each breath brought the faint and not unpleasant tang of antiseptics in the air, and it triggered a memory of the time when – of course! – as a reckless teenager he had broken a rib in the Arizona Hang-gliding Championship.
(Arthur C. Clarke, "3001: The Final Odyssey")

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