Quelius—you're nuts—did you know that? "Of course. That's quite all right. Better embarked on an exciting insanity than moldering away in dull normal… - Keith Laumer

Sure—that’s the concept. It wouldn’t be the first concept that had to be modified in the face of experience.

Don’t go female on me now. We don’t have time for nonsense.

The last burst picked me up and threw me a thousand miles into an open grave and the mud showered down on me and a giant tombstone fell out of the sky to mark the place, but I didn’t care any more, because I was far away, in that place where the heroes and the cowards lie together with a fine impartiality, waiting for eternity to pass, slowly, like a procession of snails creeping across an endless desert toward a distant line of mountains. (p. 18)