![]() ![]() ![]() “I approve of that,” put in His Excellency. Time-the older you get the faster it goes.“If anyone on Terra exercises such idiotic power, it is only because idiots permit him. No man has the right to define another man’s duties.” She paused, eyeing him speculatively. “Who defines those duties-himself, or somebody else?” “No?” She raised tantalizing eyebrows, delicately curved. “It’s your right to refuse to believe.Our minds are now enriched by the thought that an anonymous individual may be presented with a futile object for an indefinable purpose when he reaches his unknown destination. Well, that is a valuable addition to the sum total of our knowledge.“What’s the matter with you? Got a bellyache or something?”.Quotes Short fiction Major Ingredients (2000) Page numbers from this omnibus hardcover edition, published by the NESFA Press in 2000 ISBN 1-88, 2nd printing (March 2003) See Eric Frank Russell's Internet Science Fiction Database page for original publication details All spelling, punctuation, ellipses (unless noted), and italics per the text in the book ![]()
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