““I think you should know that I’m a devout Christian.” I took that to mean that my new servant wholeheartedly disapproved of almost everything I might say or do.”

—  George Alec Effinger , book A Fire in the Sun

Source: A Fire in the Sun (1989), Chapter 3 (p. 30).

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