“Don’t worry about it. There is less here than meets the eye.”

— Robert A. Heinlein , book The Number of the Beast

Source: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XLVIII : L’Envoi or Rev. XXII: 13, p. 497

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American science fiction author 1907–1988

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