title: The Book of My Enemy: Collected Verse 1958-2003
author:  Clive James 
description: 'Clive James is a true poet. Line after line of his has a characteristic personal tone, a kind of end-stopped singingness which is almost independent of what it says' Peter Porter, London Review of Books
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  No Enemy But Time
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  by Michael Bishop
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  NO ENEMY BUT TIME  
  
  
    
  
  
  Copyright © 1982 by Michael Bishop. All rights reserved.  
  
  
    
  
  
  Original publication: Timescape/Simon and Schuster, 1982.  
  
  
  Ebook edition of No Enemy But Time copyright © 2000 by ElectricStory.com, Inc.  
  
  
    
  
  
  EPUB ISBN: 978-1-59729-090-6  
  
  
    
  
  
  Quotation from The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R Tolkien copyright © 1965 by
  J.R.R. Tolkien.  
  
  
    
  
  
  Lines from William Butler Yeats’s “In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con
  Markiewicz” from Collected Poems, copyright © 1933 by Macmillan Publishing
  Co., Inc., renewed 1961 by Bertha Georgie Yeats.  
  
  
    
  
  
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  This novel is a work of fiction. All characters, events, organizations, and
  locales either are the product of the author’s imagin