We’re going to tell you about what it’s like, and what just might happen to you, and if you still want to be a writers we’ll know you’re insane. - George Alec Effinger

The butler recognized me, even favoring me with a minute change in his expression. Evidently I had become a celebrity. Politicians and sex stars may cuddle up to you and it doesn’t prove a thing, but when the butlers of the world notice you, you realize that some of what you believe about yourself is true.

With a stiff forefinger I silenced the koto music. Peace flooded in; the world thanked me.

Now we have the prospect of a religious war on our hands, with the attendant proliferation of “heresies” and two separate but equal inquisitions.