The Pursuit of the Pankera: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes

by Robert A. Heinlein

(Why do I get these attacks of honesty? I’ve never done anything to deserve them.)

this Universe never did make sense; I suspect that it was built on government contract.

It does take a bundle to run this country. We don’t begrudge money spent on roads and public health and national defense and truly useful things. But we’ve quit paying for parasites wherever we can identify them.

He might be clawed by the Bandersnatch and I would have to pilot him home.

I like to feel that I’ve paid rent on the piece of earth I’m using.