He had poured too much gilt on the lily; in striving to create a paragon, he had only succeeded in producing a paradox. - Robert Sheckley

Last week we revoked his Godhead; we caught him operating a life without a license.

In this talk I have tried to present some of my own reality, as far as I am able, at one particular time in my life. These are the things that make up my momentary universe. No summary is possible, even though I am at the end of my time here. Everything must remain unresolved, just as it in fact is. My subject matter escapes the confines of my definitions, for there is no datum that is not somehow pertinent to my situation. It is all part of the vast and uncompleted jigsaw puzzle that is our lives.

All his studies had been for extraterrestrial exploration. There was no place for him on Earth; and now he was barred from space.