Ogden Nash wrote a line that I have always remembered: "The old men know when an old man dies." With the years, that line has become ever more poigna… - Isaac Asimov

With transmutation he controls the economy of the whole set-up of your Empire. Mineral holdings won't be worth a sneeze when Riose can make tungsten out of aluminium and iridium out of iron. An entire production system based on the scarcity of certain elements and the abundance of others is thrown completely out of whack. There'll be the greatest disjointment the Empire has ever seen, and only Riose will be able to stop it. And there is the question of this new power I mentioned, the use of which won't give Riose religious heebies. 'There's nothing that can stop him

We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and we labor to cut them away and get to what might be a kernel of truth. In fact, these same techniques must be applied to the most sober histories, for no one writes the clear and apparent truth — if such a thing can even be said to exist.

Los amorreos también se apoderaron de una pequeña ciudad llamada Bab-ilum (palabra acadia que significa "puerta de Dios") e hicieron de ella su ciudad. En el hebreo de la Biblia, el nombre de la ciudad se convirtió en Babel