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

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

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

I know nothing of that directly; I only know what I have been told by other young ones who couldn't have known directly either. I want to find out the truth about them and the wanting has grown until there is more of curiosity in me than fear.