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The advantages of specialization are so obvious that, today, we don't even know how to recognize a competent syncretist!

Intelligence is a great help in the evolution-by-survival--but intelligence without muscle is even less useful than muscle without brains. But it's so easy to forget that muscle--plain physical force--is important, too!

The highest treason of all is not so easy to define--and be it noted carefully that the true traitor in this case was not singular, but very plural.

He contracted for a charter trip--but the man who hired his spacer wasn't quite a man, it turned out--and he wanted more than service!

Score one or one million was not enough for the human race. It had to be all or nothing. with one man doing every bit of scoring!

Don't wait to "Get 'em while they're hot." By then, it is too late to get them of all!

Generally, human beings don't do totally useless things consistently and widely. So--maybe there is something to it.

The entities were utterly, ambitiously evil; their line of defense, apparently, was absolutely impregnable.

The climate was perfect, the sky was always blue, and--best of all--nobody had to work. What more could anyone want?

I originally wrote this back in October 2006 as the precursor to a series. Then I lost it. Now I have found it by chance via the internet wayback machine. The series was 'The Loyndl Incursion' and consisted of this, 'Arbitrary Arbites', 'Shopping with the girlfriend' three separate 'Tobias' stories and a couple of others.