Andrei: Zhis joker is twisted. Soo: Rearry? I dought he wuz straightto . . . Philyra: The straightest path is one which bends. Ellesha: No. The straightest path is spontaneous; the minute you're thinking you're bending. Philyra: Hmm. Isn't that a way to create robot-soldier-servants: beings with automatic responses & no critical questioning?

Vidhya: This was a time in history when many embraced Aristotelian logic, but some
also realized that almost anything could be "true" in some sense at some level. The notion of multiple realities was generally considered terrifying . . .Ning: The transition from one historical period to another is seldom smooth.