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If it was good enough for your grandfather, forget it... it is much too good for anyone else!

Got a problem? Just pick up the phone. It solved them all-and all the same way! 2 B R 0 2 B

Warning: by no means I endorse the author's views. But as a bad Catholic, I enjoyed the story a lot.

It was a joyous journey Anders set out on... to reach his goal ... but look where he wound up!

CHAPTER I

Voyage of an inhabitant of the Sirius star to the planet Saturn.

On one of the planets that orbits the star named Sirius there lived a spirited young man, who I had the honor of meeting on the last voyage he made to our little ant hill. He was called Micromegas[1], a fitting name for anyone so great. He was eight leagues tall, or 24,000 geometric paces of five feet each.

What you did to your uncle’s grave was unforgivable.

It's well established now that the way you put a question often determines not only the answer you'll get, but the type of answer possible. So... a mechanical answerer, geared to produce the ultimate revelations in reference to anything you want to know, might have unsuspected limitations.

Before I try to rest I will set down these notes in preparation for the report I must make. What I have found is so singular, and so contrary to all past experience and expectations, that it deserves a very careful description.

The slovenly wub might well have said: Many men talk like philosophers and live like fools.