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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Chris</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Prescience was
capable many times of creating the future, by choosing what<BR>string of the web
to walk along.<BR>Duncan Idaho was the loyal traitor, a man of principles, the
only one able<BR>to see the net and escape it, the only one able to find a way
out into the<BR>universe. </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>~
K</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>> You
mean you believe that the best way to govern is by giving an<BR>> enormous
worm supreme executive power and the prescient ability to steer<BR>>
humankind away from total annihilation at the cost of untold human<BR>>
suffering and the destruction of arbitrary numbers of biospheres? I like<BR>>
your thinking ;-)<BR>><BR>>
Chris</FONT><BR></EM></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>