[Hakahura]

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.



Balz knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of pervert science and Hoochie Woochie. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that, if Neal Stevens and his Website Subsim last for a thousand years, men will say, "They're a wierd bunch those subsimmers"