Forgive me if I’m confusing you with logic. - James Morrow

Your disciples will expect something even grander from you. They'll want you to become a deity." She snickered and said, "I'm not ruling out that possibility."
"What sort of deity? A hamadryad? Plato's demiurge? The Creator God of Judeo-Christian revelation?"
"That job's already taken," she said.
"But you could do it better," I said.
"When it comes to the physics, no, but in other areas—you're right.

The undergraduates lamented the high price of textbooks and the equally outrageous fact that they were expected to read them.

What enormous potential for intermittent happiness the world offered.