“‘He had always been appalled at the fast hysterical pace with which businessmen marched toward death and the end of time. And yet he didn’t honestly know how a man, how he, personally, Victor Norman, should use his time. He had only the sense of thus far being a spendthrift with it, and the unexpressed urge not to fling it away so extravagantly, not to tip, as it were, employers with it. How in this brief life, this life that had been gadgeted and gimmicked half to death, could a man use time? Where could he hunt and savor time eagerly with zest and purpose, the way men around him hunted money and security and power and position?”

                     --Frederic Wakeman, The Hucksters, 1946

THE LABYRINTHINE STAIRWELL SPIRALS ENDLESSLY UPWARD…BUT HOW FAR DOES IT REACH….! HOW FAR–? THE ANSWER COMES IN A BLAST OF FRIGID WIND…IN A VAST PLACE OF WHIPPING SNOW AND UNMOVING ICE–THE WHITE WASTELAND WHICH IS THE OUTSIDE WORLD.

                     --Doug Moench, KA-ZAR, Vol. 1, No. 13, 
            "The Skull of the Lizard-Man!," 1975