“…How are such things as edi­tions, states, vari­ants, or even the book itself to be dis­cussed? To what extent is a printed book sin­gu­lar? And to what extent does the (inac­cu­rate) schol­arly assump­tion that it is not, enable rea­son­able and use­ful dis­cus­sion of such objects to proceed?”

“Assume, as Roo­sevelt did, a pop­u­la­tion in which there are some weak-​​minded peo­ple, prone to vio­lence. What makes such peo­ple fix­ate on a pub­lic fig­ure? Roo­sevelt thought it could only be the lan­guage, bor­der­ing on incite­ment, with which it had become accept­able to attack pub­lic figures.”

“I have not even touched on the fas­ci­nat­ing pos­si­bil­i­ties of inter­stel­lar finance, where spot and for­ward exchange mar­kets will have to be sup­ple­mented by con­di­tional present markets.”