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• For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years.
  This gives me great hope for the human race. -- Harlan Elliso...
• Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river.
  Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks of the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current what each had learned from birth....
• Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river.
  Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks of the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current what each had learned from birth....
• When the tides of life turn against you, And the current upsets your boat, Don't waste those tears on what might have bee
  Just lay on your back and float. -- Art Carney (as Ed Norton in The Honeymooners)...
• FORTUNE'S GUIDE TO DEALING WITH REAL-LIFE SCIENCE FICTION
  #14 What to do... if reality disappears? Hope this one doesn't happen to you....
• Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurantist drivel
  Star Trek can turn your brains to pur'ee of bat guano...