If an interaction is too weak to be detectable or to exert influence in any way, then by any operational… — Isaac Asimov

Tritt listened placidly, clearly understanding nothing, but content to be listening; while Odeen, transmitting nothing, was as clearly content to be lecturing.

You know that prudery is only the other side of prurience. The words are even on the same page in the dictionary.

There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.