estoy a punto de lanzar todo mi peso contra una puerta y encontrar que está abierta de par en par. - Isaac Asimov

Trantor was a world in dregs and rebirth. Set like a faded jewel in the midst of the bewildering crowd of suns at the center of the Galaxy — in the heaps and clusters of stars piled high with aimless prodigality — it alternately dreamed of past and future.

Finge went on. "There are some things, however, they must not know. Prime among them, of course, is the manner in which we alter Reality when necessary. The insecurity such knowledge would arouse would be most harmful. It is always necessary to breed out of Reality any factors that might lead to such knowledge and we have never been troubled with it.

No obstante el año siguiente, Simeón dejó bien claro que, si no podía ser emperador de Bizancio, sería emperador de algo. Adoptó el título imperial de "césar", que en el idioma eslavo se convirtió en "zar".