It isn't difficult to keep a smile on your face when you're being interrogated by a cheerful young lady. And I could tell she was honestly that way. Not a trace of the "Pan-Am smile." So I answered her questions lightly but truthfully. Who knows, once I got settled down somewhere I could look her up?
Things went smoothly until she got to the next section of her questionnaire:
"Well, Logan, your Cole Index indicates some sort of thaumic particle production, so I have to ask some questions according to guidelines set by MAGI..."
"Go ahead, Susan," I said.
She rattled off several fairly benign questions about magickal traditions, culminating in, "Are you a god?"
Well, being one to learn from other's mistakes, I took Doctor Venkman's advice to Doctor Stantz. "Yes?"
She took me seriously, and now I have a few pantheistic Rent-a-worshippers supplied by the city. Let me just say, the fact that their ceremonies gives me a boost gives me the wiggins. Almost as much as being able to telekinetically poke bad guys in the frontal lobes.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
Things went smoothly until she got to the next section of her questionnaire:
"Well, Logan, your Cole Index indicates some sort of thaumic particle production, so I have to ask some questions according to guidelines set by MAGI..."
"Go ahead, Susan," I said.
She rattled off several fairly benign questions about magickal traditions, culminating in, "Are you a god?"
Well, being one to learn from other's mistakes, I took Doctor Venkman's advice to Doctor Stantz. "Yes?"
She took me seriously, and now I have a few pantheistic Rent-a-worshippers supplied by the city. Let me just say, the fact that their ceremonies gives me a boost gives me the wiggins. Almost as much as being able to telekinetically poke bad guys in the frontal lobes.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll