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THE_IRON_KEY

                                             July 13, 2007


   "He has a brush; I have no sword, and so it
   seems his prisoning is less.  Yet I may call
   my jailer by a name, and see a face, and
   know the hands which hold the iron key."

              -- "To Here and the Easel" by
                  Theodore Sturgeon


                                     SPOILERS
   There is an R.A. Lafferty
   story about a priest
   exploring an alien society
   that appears at first to be
   totally without vice. But
   then he notices a plethora of
   perfume shops everywhere...
   and he realizes that they're
   addicted to the sensuality of
   smells, and concludes that only
   "The Name of the Snake" has
   changed.


                                                          RAND

                      In the Ayn Rand novel "Atlas Shrugged",
                      people continually make speeches that
                      they understand the listener isn't really
                      ready for -- they explain that they're
                      providing words for a time when the words
                      might be needed:

                          Providing a name for a later time
                          when you might become aware of
                          something that needs to be named...


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