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Deal With The Devil If The Devil Has A Constituency - And Don't Complain About The Heat.

Inevitably The Party Trying To Resolve A Matter Had To Contend With The Party Most Willing To Exploit It.

Science Fiction Is A Dialogue, A Tennis Match, In Which The Idea Is Volleyed From One Side Of The Net To The Other. Ridiculous To Say That Someone 'stole' An Idea: No, No, A Thousand Times No. The Point Is The Volley, And How It's Carried, And What Statement Is Made By The Answering 'statement.' In Other Words — If Burroughs Initiates A Time-gate And Says It Works Randomly, And Then Norton Has Time Gates Confounded With The Perilous Seat, The Siege Perilous Of The Round Table, And Locates It In A Bar On A Rainy Night — Do You See Both The Humor And The Volley In The Tennis Match?

Jane Leaned Back Against The Counter And Stared At The Ceiling. At The Traditional Location Of God, No Matter What The Planet.

Change Happened And You Thought It Was Forever, And Immediately There Were All The Enemies Of That Change Making Common Cause And Meeting In The Cloakrooms.