Things oughtn’t to be the way they are, altogether. But letting a madman burn down the barn is no way to improve them. - Avram Davidson

Surely you’ll at least see the Temple? Respect all religions, is my motto, believe in none. Sensible principle. Still, you know, must say, after all, two thousand beautiful priestesses! All ready, willing, able—and I must say—dextrous!— to do their best to inspire male worshippers with love for their goddess, hah-hah!

It was but that, seeing him and so imagining that something about him was otherwise, automatically they feared him.

Everything meant something, still, some meanings were revealed sooner than others. And that some were seemingly never revealed in no way disproved the fact.