Source: Calculating God (2000), Chapter 14 (p. 140)
“Of course, lately he has been very upset about the state of the world. But isn’t everybody who bothers to pay attention?”
Source: The Stone That Never Came Down (1973), Chapter 3 (p. 27)
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