Certainly no valid answer is ever gained by excluding any factors of the problem; that was the Puritans' error.
Tim PowersIt wasn't fair, but fairness was something you had to go get; it wasn't delivered like the mail.
Tim PowersThe Spoonsize Boys steal the dollhouse toys while the cat by the fire is curled. Then away they floats in their eggshell boats, down the drains to their underground world.
Tim Powers