I Regret Having Been The Bearer Of

Cultural Contamination That Is Directed Outward Is Always Seen As ‘enlightenment.'

We Already Live A Very Long Time For Mammals, Getting Three Times As Many Heartbeats As A Mouse Or Elephant. It Never Seems Enough Though, Does It?

Life Is Not Fair... Anyone Who Says It Is, Or Even That It Ought To Be, Is A Fool Or Worse.

...where Were Answers To The Truly Deep Questions? Religion Promised Those, Though Always In Vague Terms, While Retreating From One Line In The Sand To The Next. Don't Look Past This Boundary, They Told Galileo, Then Hutton, Darwin, Von Neumann, And Crick, Always Retreating With Great Dignity Before The Latest Scientific Advance, Then Drawing The Next Holy Perimeter At The Shadowy Rim Of Knowledge.

Science Fiction Is The Jazz Of Literature.