“There were security angles, political angles, personal angles—how many angles could dance on the head of a pin?”

—  Lois McMaster Bujold , Vorkosigan Saga

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Diplomatic Immunity (2002), Chapter 4 (p. 52)

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