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"Familiar with infinite universe sheafs and open-ended postulate systems? -- the notion that everything is possible -- and I mean everything -- and everything has happened. _Everything._" -- Heinlein
An hour later, I was nursing a weak highball and a black eye in the sleepy-time darkness on the couch farthest from the piano, half watching the highlighted party going on around it and the bar, while the Place waited for rendezvous with Egypt and the Battle of Alexandria.