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  • It was at the Saltus Barber Shop located on Lenox and 133rd Street that played a part in Max getting his first jobs in New York City playing with bands and musicians.

    Max Lucas: A Performance of a Life Time « 2010

  • Saltus 'Anatomy of Negation was profounder than Kant.

    CHAPTER XIV 2010

  • The mining village of Saltus we slowly discover are not mining ore; Earth is too old for that; instead, the miners are looting prehistorical buried cities, digging up ancient artifacts, or corpses preserved by time-defeating crystal coffins.

    WolfeWiki 2008

  • It was a month or more before I understood why these seemed so different from the autochthons I had seen at Saltus Fair, in the market of Thrax, and elsewhere, though it was only that these people had pride and were far less inclined to violence.

    The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987

  • I went ashore half-convinced that there were two villages with the same name -- perhaps Saltus and New Saltus, or something of the sort.

    The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987

  • They reminded me of the kelau who had marched singing from the river through that Saltus to which I had come as an exiled journeyman, and I was about to mention them in the hope of leading the conversation to the war with Ascia when the door burst open and a gaudily uniformed officer stalked in, followed by a squad of fusiliers.

    The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987

  • I rose consumed with impotent rage; I had suffered such abuse after I had been taken at Saltus and had succeeded in making that officer my friend.

    The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987

  • Its walls were insubstantial, not because they were in any way dreamlike, but because they somehow suggested that they were thinner than tissue and might be burst in an instant, so that I was reminded of the trumpery booths and pavilions of the fair at Saltus, where I had killed Morwenna and met the green man.

    The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987

  • That evening the boy brought my food, and with it Herena, Declan, the mate, and the cook I had seen briefly in the inn of Saltus.

    The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987

  • I should have realized that such a true and vivid green is not found in men or beasts with hair or fur, and when it seems to occur is the effect of algae, like that in the blood of the green man at Saltus.

    The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987

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