Twenty Blue Devils Quotes

“Dramocles got up from the operating table thinking he had just had a massage, and now wanted to take a brisk walk. A posthypnotic command took him a hundred yards from Fish’s laboratory. Then he heard the explosion. Hurrying back, he saw that Dr. Fish had been blown up. Dramocles couldn’t imagine why anyone would want to blow up an inoffensive android like Fish. He never considered the possibility that he had done it himself, since exploded androids tell no tales.”
― Robert Sheckley, Dramocles: An Intergalactic Soap Opera

“The great man would picture in his mind a multidrawered cabinet and then assign each of the matters that were worrying him to a separate drawer. in his mind’s eye he would then glance briefly at the contents of each drawer and slam them firmly shut one”
― Aaron Elkins, Twenty Blue Devils

“Rememberatorium),”
― Robert Sheckley, Dramocles: An Intergalactic Soap Opera