But... Watching Steven Barnes Taught Me To

Never Tell A Computer To Forget It.

It's Very Difficult For A Black Man To Get Out Of South-central Los Angeles, And Get Out Civilized....the Only Men I Know Who Have Escaped, All Began Reading Robert Heinlein At Age Ten.

There Were Timelines Branching And Branching, A Mega-universe Of Universes, Millions More Every Minute. Billions? Trillions? The Universe Split Every Time Someone Made A Decision. Split, So That Every Decision Ever Made Could Go Both Ways. Every Choice Made By Every Man, Woman, And Child Was Reversed In The Universe Next Door.

For Each Human Being There Is An Optimum Ratio Between Change And Stasis. Too Little Change, He Grows Bored. Too Little Stability, He Panics And Loses His Ability To Adapt. One Who Marries Six Times In Ten Years Won't Change Jobs. One Who Moves Often To Serve His Company Will Maintain A Stable Marriage. A Woman Chained To One Home And Family May Redecorate Frantically Or Take A Lover Or Go To Many Costume Parties.

As For Aids, It's A Plague. We Are Human, We Get Plagues. They Come Along Every So Often, Kill Off Two Thirds Of The Population; In The Next Generation It's A Quarter; After That It's A Childhood Disease.