“You still look faint, my dear,” condoled Mrs. Sylk. “It is the motion and smell of this hideous train. How it rocks! […] ”

… “and in general wantonly pursues pleasure in an animal fashion in all of his sexual activities,” or it means, “he pursues pleasure animalistically with women, begetting children, and also animalistically with men, having sex for pleasure only,” …

Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.

These suns are selected by the Creator Sun and are commissioned by Gabriel as the most high of the constellations for service during one decamillennium, which is 10,000 of our standard years. / In their time it is 10,000 years precisely. But because we are placed farther out of the infinite light, and our vibrations are much slower here, there is a time-drag factor of about 5. […] And each of the most high rulers, in accordance with the present policy, has a period of service on the headquarters of a constellation for 3 decamillenniums, which in our time is 150,000 years.