I can tell you this at least. The most convincing disguise for legitimacy is legitimacy itself. - Jack Vance

“I learned a great deal,” said Beran. “And then I lost all heart for further learning.”
Palafox’s eyes glinted. “Education is not achieved through the heart—it is a systematization of the mental processes.”
“But I am something other than a mental process,” said Beran. “I am a man. I must reckon with the whole of myself.”

I fear, Master Zamp, that you are a victim to your own perfervid imagination.

Now was the present, now was the time containing that sweet union of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, spirit, will and imagination named Nancy.