All the things that happen and seem so important at the time, and yet you forget them, one after another. - Thomas M. Disch

...there, strung out under the cornice of the building, was the motto, which he had never noticed before, of the Federal Communications Agency:

Marvin Kolodny responded with a boyish grin and offered his hand. An American flag has been tattooed on his right forearm. On a scroll circling the flagpole was the following inscription:

People in intolerable circumstances will pray to anything. Truly, there are no atheists in foxholes: the men there pray to the bombs that they may land somewhere else.