What most people don't realize is that something unprecedented has entered the world. Bang-science-and suddenly a proposition is true because it's true, Julie, not because its adherents have the biggest churches or the grandest inquisitors or the most weeks on The New York Times bestseller list. (James K. Morrow)

What most people don't realize is that something unprecedented has entered the world. Bang-science-and suddenly a proposition is true because it's true, Julie, not because its adherents have the biggest churches or the grandest inquisitors or the most weeks on The New York Times bestseller list.

James K. Morrow

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