Titanium Sun Occluded, King of Earth (or in the common parlance of the day, the Greatest Equal Citizen), heard a court case in the 9.83923 × 10~8 second of his reign; and although Titanium Sun Occluded judged that programming a belief in creationism in the newborn was both illegal and illogical, the debate continued to rage for many years.rnThe King never spoke publicly on the subject again, once his judgement had been announced. But in private, Citizen Brilliant Cobalt, the King's favourite concubine, took up the subject again and again, so that the King could not rest easily with his decision.rn"And I suppose you think you were a toaster once," Brilliant Cobalt suggested one lazy nanosecond, during which the computational load was meagre because of striking catalyst machines in a far-off sector. The King hadn't investigated the strike just yet, as he was devoting most of his attention to Brilliant Cobalt's seductions.
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