By The Usual Reckoning, The Worst Books

It Was The Day My Grandmother Exploded.

Reason Shapes The Future, But Superstition Infects The Present.

I Held My Crotch, Closed My Eyes And Repeated My Secret Catechism.

"one Of The Advantages Of Having Laws Is The Pleasure One May Take In Breaking Them. We Here Are Not Children, Mr. Gurgeh." Hamin Waved The Pipestem Round The Tables Of People. "rules And Laws Exist Only Because We Take Pleasure In Doing What They Forbid, But As Long As Most Of The People Obey Such Proscriptions Most Of The Time, They Have Done Their Job; Blind Obedience Would Imply We Are - Ha!" - Hamin Chuckled And Pointed At The Drone With The Pipe - "no More Than Robots!"

Look At These Humans! How Could Such Glacial Slowness Even Be Called Life? An Age Could Pass, Virtual Empires Rise And Fall In The Time They Took To Open Their Mouths To Utter Some New Inanity!