Plenty of men—and women—have already gone where I’m going. But I’ll be the first person currently in this room to make the trip.

Kevin David Anderson and Sam Stall, Night of the Living Trekkies [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]

Hermetic quote Anderson Stall Night of the Living Trekkies plenty already gone first person currently in this room to make the trip

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  1. “Look, there’s no point in freaking out about the trials and ruining your day,” Phillip said. “I know,” Martin agreed. “Freak out tomorrow. That’s when the trials are. Today is meant to be a day of fun. Possibly your last.”
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  3. “Now you’re freaking me out,” Gary said. “I’m freaking myself out,” Jim said.
  4. “His feet to-day stood in the place that yesterday his eye could scarcely see, and beyond him in the Invisible was his next day’s resting place.”
  5. “But in this story, as in so many others, what we really discern is the deceptive, ambiguous, and giddy riddle of violence, passion, poetry, and symbolism that lies at the heart of Greek myth and refuses to be solved. An algebra too unstable properly to be computed, it is human-shaped and god-shaped, not pure and mathematical.”