The time was one of great organization and aspiration, of communities, communes, and committees. - Brian Aldiss

Rządzić znaczy służyć, kobieto! Ci, którzy sprawują władzę, są jej niewolnikami. Tylko wygnaniec jest wolny.

To qualify as a Seeker, it was necessary to show a high serendipity factor. In my experimental behaviour pool as a child, I had exhibited such a factor, and had been selected for special training forthwith. I had taken additional courses in Philosophical, Alpha-humerals, Incidental Tetrachotomy, Apunctual Synchronicity, Homoontogenesis, and other subjects, ultimately qualifying as a Prime Esemplastic Seeker. In other words, I put two and two together in situations where other people were not thinking about addition. I connected. I made wholes greater than parts. Mine was an invaluable profession in a cosmos increasingly full of parts.

If adolescence did not exist it would be unnecessary to invent it!