“I′ve told you all I know,” Rosa Armaz told Boarski and Yermin, “I don′t know what my husband has been doing. He′d mentioned going to Mars with the children but I thought it was a load of codswallop.”

The remains of depraved Digestion shew themselves in loathing of food, foulness of the mouth, impure belchings, heart-burn, nausea, vomiting, vertigo, dyspnaea, &c.

In the few instances where the initial description is couched in the past tense, immediate reversal occurs and the scene is contemporized by the listener.

Keep in mind that none of this is guaranteed to end with rainbows and unicorns. Like any idea, notions such as culturcide and the culture of one can be used by people to achieve what will strike a particular society or group or individual as negative effects; nonetheless, I hope to keep things mostly upbeat.