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"Colonel," put in Dr. Harshaw, "a major shortcoming of World as Myth lies
in the fact that we contend with... and often lose to... three sorts of
antagonists: villains by design such as the Galactic Oveiiord, and groups like
us but with different intentions-bad in our opinion, perhaps good in theirs-and
the third and most powerful, the myth makers themselves-such as Homer and Twain
and Shakespeare and Baum and Swift and their colleagues in the pantheon. But not
those I have named. Their bodies have died; they live on by the immortal corpus
of myth each has created... which does not change and therefore does not imperil
us.
"But there are living myth makers, every one of them dangerous, every one
of them casually uncaring as he revises a myth and erases a character." Harshaw
smiled grimly. "The only way one can live with the knowledge is to realize first
that it is the only game in town and second that it does not hurt. Erasure.
Being X'd out of the story."
"How do you know that it doesn't hurt?"
"Because I refuse to entertain any other theory! Shall we get on with our
report?"
"Dickie boy, you asked, 'Why me?' For the same reason Jubal and I left a
pleasant lunch to work our tails off and to set many others to arduous and
dangerous investigation in several time lines. Because of Task Adam Selene and
your key part in it. Near as we can tell, the Time Lords want to kidnap Mike
while the Scene Changers want to destroy him
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