““What are you going to do for a career?”
Diverted from his orbit, Donald binked. “Well, something which uses up a minimum of my time, I imagine. So I can use the rest to mortar up the gaps in my education.””

— John Brunner , book Stand on Zanzibar

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Stand on Zanzibar (1968)

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