And yet, in March of 1983, I presented Doubleday with the “long-awaited” third robot novel. It has no connection whatever with the ill-fated attempt … - Isaac Asimov

Earthmen are all so coddled, so enwombed in their imprisoning caves of steel, that they are caught forever.

And so it happened, that when others bent their knee, he refused and added loudly that his ancestors in their time bowed no knee to any stinking mayor. And in his ancestors' time the mayor was elected anyhow, and kicked out at will, and that the only people that inherited anything by right of birth were the congenital idiots.

Sus adeptos eran educados en una lealtad absoluta a su persona. Se decía que los estimulaba a mascar hachís y luego explicaba las alucinaciones que provocaba la droga como visiones del cielo, en el que entrarían inmediatamente si cumplían con su deber. Lo cierto es que a causa de ello, los seguidores del Viejo de la Montaña fueron llamados hashishin (fumadores de hachís). Para los europeos, este nombre se convirtió en la voz asesinos.