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Maybe there are different levels on the river. Paul turned his attention to the floor. In South Africa, in the middle of the twenty-first century, _Irene Renie Sulaweyo_ hasproblems of her own. He had seen other improbable places, too--the details were fuzzy, butstill too complete to be merely the residue of dreams.