Source, in full
Author's Postscript to the story. This story is also the second chapter of his novel Mindkiller (1982) and appears as the title story in the collection God Is An Iron and Other Stories ISBN 0-7862-4162-4 · Cover art for Book
More quotes by Spider Robinson
Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased — thus do we refute entropy.
As Bob Dylan forgot to say, "To live outside the law, you must be lucky."
Terror leaves you when you despair; once you let yourself hope again it returns redoubled.
As the poet tells us: once a king, always a king—but once a night is often sufficient.
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