"Think. You have had your dealings with our bureaucracy. It is impossible not to, especially if one is a foreigner. Believe me, when we set our minds to it we can tangle, obstruct, and bring to a dead halt a herd of stampeding elephants."
Poul Anderson

January 1, 1970

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Chapter 16 “Niche” (p. 291)

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