confidence in hissex-money-superstition equation as he walked briskly down the road tobegin his contact with a world that had substituted vat-cultureprocreation for sex; that had abolished money in favor of a complicatedsystem of verbal, personal-honor swapping credits; that had no religionsor superstitions. A world of people who considered the most sweetlydistilled essence of living to be the minute investigation of the finepoints of logical discourse, engaged in on the basis of an incrediblymultiplied logic structure composed of thirty-seven separate systems ofdiscursive regulations, the very first of which was based on a planetaryabsolute, the rejection and ridicule of all persuasive techniques andthose who used them.
--HELEN M. URBAN
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