“I’m proposing to pay you five thousand dollars to do something you’ll find quite enjoyable.”

— Robert Sheckley, book Victim Prime

“Make it ten,” Foote said, “and I’ll enjoy it even more.”

Chapter 37 (pp. 151-152)
Victim Prime (1987)

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