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plateau
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Hyperion
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- The plateau here is almost three thousand meters above sea level and the view was impressive.
Part 1 *plateau = high land that is reasonably flat
- Looking again at Father Dur, he said, "That section of the Pinion Plateau isn't inhabited, Father.†
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- General Index told him that Mamet Spedling had been a minor explorer affiliated with the Shackleton Institute on Renaissance Minor who, almost a standard century and a half earlier, had filed a short report with the Institute in which he told of hacking his way inland from the then newly settled Port Romance, through swamplands which had since been reclaimed for fiberplastic plantations, passing through the flame forests during a period of rare quietude, and climbing high enough on the Pinion Plateau to encounter the Cleft and a small tribe of humans who fit the profile of the legendary Bikura.†
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- Pinion Plateau, we emerged this morning onto a rocky outcropping that allowed us a view back across an expanse of jungle toward the Beak and the Middle Sea.†
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- The change in vegetation here on the Plateau is startling.†
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- The Cleft was not carved out of the rising plateau as was the legendary Grand Canyon on Old Earth or World Crack on Hebron.†
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- As the cooling air settled into the cracks and caverns of the plateau and the warm air rushed skyward, pulling leaves, twigs, and mist upward in a vertical gale, a sound ebbed up out of the Cleft as if the continent itself was calling with the voices of stone giants, gigantic bamboo flutes, church organs the size of palaces, the clear, perfect notes ranging from the shrillest soprano to the deepest bass.†
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- It took me well over two hours to dig a proper grave in the rocky soil of the plateau.†
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- Only the near-solid breaks of bestos, the rocky soil here on the summit plateau, and the hogback ridges running like armor-plated vertebrae northeast from here keep the teslas at bay.†
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- To the north, the plateau widens out and the undergrowth becomes denser near the Cleft for some fifteen kilometers until the way is blocked by a ravine a third as deep and half as wide as the Cleft itself.†
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- -even though the data in the comiog insisted that the dropship of seventy colonists who had crashed on this plateau four hundred years ago had held only Neo-Kerwin Marxists, all of whom should have been indifferent if not openly hostile to the old religions.†
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- If eating chalma roots or breathing the pure air of the Pinion Plateau had a dramatic effect on retarding aging, it would be a sure bet that everyone on Hyperion would be living here munching chalma, that this planet would have had a farcaster centuries ago, and that every citizen of the Hegemony who has a universal card would be planning to spend vacations and retirement here.†
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- Because this ledge ran due north and south for a hundred-meter cut of cliff, I could look due west along a thirty-kilometer slash of Cleft to open sky where the plateau ended.†
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- Whoever had built this had done so by widening the area under the overhang, slicing a sheer, smooth wail into the granite of the plateau, and then tunneling directly into the cliff face.†
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- I speculated on what, if anything, their presence here had to do with the labyrinth and on the aeons necessary to raise this plateau so the river and canyon could slice through one of the tunnels.†
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- The plantation manager had tried to mount several rescue operations onto the Plateau, but an unprecedented series of active seasons in the flame forests had made them abandon their attempts.†
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- For weeks Kassad sPent every free hour wandering the Command School grounds, watching from the ramparts as the evening shadow of Mons Olympus covered first the Plateau forest, then the heavily settled highlands, then everything halfway to the horizon, and then all the world.†
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- Kassad counted more than two hundred dancing columns of green light as the hellwhip lances ripped the broad plateau to shreds.†
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- We are in a comfortable Dark Ages of the inventive mind; institutions change but little, and that by gradual evolution rather than revolution; scientific research creeps crablike in a lateral shuffle, where once it leaped in great intuitive bounds; devices change even less, plateau technologies common to us would be instantly identifiable-and operable!†
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- Still, I was surprised to the point of hesitating a second when we stepped through the Iron Pig Concourse far-caster onto an empty stone plateau which seemed to stretch to infinity.†
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- He gestured toward the gray plateau.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(plateau as in: found on the plateau) high land that is reasonably flat
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(2)
(plateau as in: reached a plateau in our growth) a time of little change after more rapid change -- typically to stop increasing
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, the expression tibial plateau refers to the flat top portion of the tibia bone (running from the knee to the ankle).