Clearly Mr. Drkh has had a long career of being the weirdest person in any given room, but he's about to go down in flames.

If you sincerely believed in God, how could you form one thought, speak one sentence, without mentioning Him?

Give me an adventure. I'm not talking about some massive adventure. Just something that would make getting fired seem small. Something that I might remember when I'm old." "I can't predict the future," I said, "but based on what little I know so far, I'm afraid it has to be a massive adventure or nothing." "Great!" "Probably the kind of adventure that ends in a mass burial.

We see everything from the narrator's point of view, so exposition about the world is limited to what impinges directly on him and the story he's telling. Considering how old the world is, we learn very little about its history, which I think is a good thing.

Clearly Mr. Drkh has had a long career of being the weirdest person in any given room, but he's about to go down in flames.

They went inside. The young ones shuffled to a stop as their ironic sensibilities, which served them in lieu of souls, were jammed by a signal of overwhelming power.

Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window.