excerpt from the book..So, General, I came in to tell you I've found the loneliest man in theworld for the Space Force.How am I supposed to rate his loneliness for you? In Megasorrows orKilofears? I suspect I know quite a library on the subject, but you knowmore about stripes and bars. Don't try to stop me this time, General.Now that you mention it, I'm not drunk. I had to have something to backme up so I stopped off at the dispensary and stole a needle.I want you to get off my back with that kind of talk. I've got enoughthere--it bends me over like I had bad kidneys. It isn't any of KingKong's little brothers. They over rate the stuff. It isn't the wayyou've been riding me either. Never mind what I'm carrying. Whatever itis--and believe me, it _is_--I have to get rid of it.