How does it feel to have just changed the course of history?” "I don't know what you mean,” said the navigator. "To my way of thinking, by the time history happens I'm going to be dead. (John Brunner)

How does it feel to have just changed the course of history?” "I don't know what you mean,” said the navigator. "To my way of thinking, by the time history happens I'm going to be dead.

John Brunner

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