It tells of a strange child's forlorn travels through the universe after quitting his native planet, B-612, to escape a vain, capricious rose.

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His voluntary return to action at an age when he was too old to fly fighter planes and too fat to squeeze into the cockpit without difficulty marked his own escape from his planet B-612.

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Nimrud was a city in the Assyrian kingdom, which flourished between 900-612 B.

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