Ursa Minor Beta is, some say, one of the most appalling places in the known
Universe.
Although it is excruciatingly rich, horrifyingly sunny and more full of
wonderfully exciting people than a pomegranate is of pips, it can hardly be
insignificant that when a recent edition of "Playbeing" magazine Headlined
an article with the words "When you are tired of Ursa Minor Beta you are
tired of life," the suicide rate there quadrupled overnight....
Menenius Agrippa concluded at length with the celebrated fable It
once happened that all the other members of a man mutinied against
the stomach, which they accused as the only idle, uncontributing part
in the whole body, while the rest were put to hardships and the expense
of much labour to supply and minister to its appetites....
