alif

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• The Irish title of the letter a or haw is alif, as also is the Arabian: the Greek alpha is either alpa or alfa.

• The wheel turns ever, and no pleasure of ours but is built on the shifting sand of some one's pain, even as Alif told me.

• The inner, Aditya-Alif, however, was an eight-hundred-mile sphere; it had once been the planetary ship-station and shipyard-base.

• Orders to take over Aditya-Alif and begin construction of a permanent naval base.