I've never noticed that being nonsensical keeps things from happening. Don’t you ever read about politics? - Murray Leinster

He signed himself prince of this, lord of that, baron of the other thing and claimant to the dukedom of something else.

Most men develop convictions about the cosmos and such beliefs come in two varieties. One kind is a conviction that the cosmos does not make sense. That it exists by chance and changes by chance and human beings do not matter. This view produces a fine complacency. The other kind is a belief that the cosmos does make sense, and was designed with the idea that people were going to live in it, and that what they do and what happens to them is important. This theory seems to be depressing.

He needed some rather extensive changes in the relationship of the cosmos to himself.