⦁ "Look at this for a while, Sylvia," she said," Squinch up your eyes...don't be in a hurry...."⦁ While I was looking at the image, my grandmother...said this, or something close to it:⦁ "Women are very inconvenient to Christianity and to almost all other major religions. Women are ONLY convenient as FOLLOWERS of the men who wrote books like the Bible (and who re-write them over and over again) TO SUIT THEIR OWN NEEDS. Jesus would not have liked the Bible; nor would he have liked the rich men. .. an outlet." Wow, you sound really busy! What are you studying?" Chemical engineering." Wow. I mean ... conceptually and historically and all the terminology involved, you must be studying every second you can." You sound familiar with it." I ... I guess I'm the curious type. I always wanted to know why certain chemicals affected people the way they do. I took classes in chemistry as a sort of minor, but I got impatient. The classes didn't stimulate me enough." What did?" Computer science. I. You like to hear me say that, don't you?" Oooohhh, God, yesssss. It's lovely."They were approaching one of the motorway rest areas, and suddenly Erik turned off the lane. "Open your blouse and let me see your tits," he moaned, as the car slowed down. With trembling fingers she did what he had told her to do. By that time Erik had spied three men standing round their car at the other end of the rest area."Roll down the window, love," and while she was doing it, he drove up beside the three men.. “Earth: solid, slow to change, unforgiving, but not malicious. The rocks and the trees, but the wolves, bears and spiders, too.”“Mister d'X,” she said, stepping into the room and turning, the suits of armor making her look insignificant. The magister turned back toward her, apparently not expecting a reprise. “Entropy?”“A force to which most of us are subject,” he said, flicking his wrist wistfully as a servant slid past, depositing her and her sister’s belongings at the foot of the onyx bed..