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Up in him. "Somebody owned Aunt Pol?" he demanded incredulously. "It's a Nadrak custom " Silk explained. "In their society women are considered property. It's not seemly for a woman to go about without an owner. " "She was a slave?" Garion's. buy clomid The Creator intended perfection and failed or he wanted all this misery to happen and is therefore punishing human beings for no reason at all except his own perverse plea- sure. He created Satan and the others too don't forget. 264 VENGEANCE OF THE DANCING GODS JACK L. CHALKER 265 It is a terrifying vision to a mathematician yet the con- clusion is inescapable on the face of it. The Creator is insane! We have a root random variable at the core of our being that comes from that insanity. " "Ever think your problem was in thinking of Him as human as natural? That maybe He's so far beyond any- thing we can comprehend that He's beyond our under- standing at all?" "I! considered it but it is actually an irrelevant point. What isn't mathematically balanced is insanity. Such a being is therefore insane and I refuse to be a party to serving one who is not the heart of all logic and mathe- matics. " "And the Devil is?" "Well the Devil's got his own problems I admit con- sidering the record; but taking the long view Satan's fight is my fight because he is battling the Creator and for the same reasons. Look at this world! I thought ours was bad but it pales by comparison to the Creator's chosen and personally created own! The world is a madhouse in which the bulk of the population at any time is in slavery or subjugation starving or in other miseries and Hell is allowed to run roughshod while all the good and saintly of this world are killed. A world that worships martyrdom above all else that equates good with dying for a good cause is a world that is so mad it is unbelievable. Out of this I have the means to create a single worldwide math- ! ematically balanced society. I have the tools. I might well fail; if I do the world will be destroyed. But if that hap- pens it will be because it deserves to happen. Better to end it than to bring into being generations yet to be born to suffer all the more!" "I'm no priest. Baron or theologian. I can't give you the answers if there are the kind of answers either of us will understand. All I understand is that by the proph- ecies of the Oracle ofMylox your plan will lead to Arma- geddon unless it is stopped and I think these people should have. aw85e4657zxc9438367112yyyr