‘That’s all trash,” he continued as we flew up to the Institute. “That’s all too clear. But you tell me. Where did Janus-U learn that everything would turn out just so and not otherwise? He must have foreseen everything, both the vast destruction and that I would figure out how to terminate the colossus in embryo.”
‘That’s a fact,” I said. “He even expressed his gratitude to you. In advance.”
“Isn’t that really strange?” said Roman. “All this needs thorough thinking through.”
And we did start to think through thoroughly. It took us a long time. Only by spring, and only by chance, were we able to decipher the mystery.
But that’s an altogether different story.
When God created time, say the Irish—he created it in adequate amounts.
H. Boll
Eighty-three percent of the days in a year beg
