I must call horsefeathers — oh, wait; that's pegasi, not centaurs — to the notion that there's any such thing as a "right-thinking seer of the future."
In the words of A. Merritt's Snake Mother (probably the most adorable lamia in all of 20th-century fiction):
"Trigger" is hilarious. "Mr. Ed" would've been good, too.
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"Oh, my people had many gods. There was Conformity, and Authority, and Expense Account, and Opinion. And there was Status, whose symbols were many, and who rode in the great chariot Cadillac, which was almost a god itself. And there was Atombomb, the dread destroyer, who would some day come to end the world." — Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen, H. Beam Piper
In the words of A. Merritt's Snake Mother (probably the most adorable lamia in all of 20th-century fiction):
Quote:"Well," said the Serpent-woman, practically, "I am glad I cannot read the future. If it is to be war, I have no desire to be weakened by knowing I am going to lose. Nor to be bored by knowing I am going to win. If one must exert oneself to such a degree as such war promises, one is surely entitled to the interest of uncertainty."
"Trigger" is hilarious. "Mr. Ed" would've been good, too.
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"Oh, my people had many gods. There was Conformity, and Authority, and Expense Account, and Opinion. And there was Status, whose symbols were many, and who rode in the great chariot Cadillac, which was almost a god itself. And there was Atombomb, the dread destroyer, who would some day come to end the world." — Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen, H. Beam Piper