You shall depart freely. Caution enjoins me to have you arrested and garroted within this hour. Either you… — Poul Anderson
You shall depart freely. Caution enjoins me to have you arrested and garroted within this hour. Either you are a charlatan and deserve it or a mortal danger and require it. However, I deem you a sensible man who will withdraw to his obscurity. And I am grateful to you for a fascinating glimpse of—what is best left alone.
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Your question is meaningless. I am occupied. I participate in operations, I am one with the accomplishments.
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I have learned much in two thousand years, but nothing about any gods, except that they too, arise, change, age, and die. Whatever there is beyond the universe, if anything, I doubt it concerns itself with us.
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