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Actor Remember that you are an actor in a play, and the Playwright chooses the manner of it: if he wants it short, it is short; if long, it is long. If he wants you to act a poor man you must act the part with all your powers; and so if your part be a cripple or a magistrate or a plain man. For your business is to act the character that is given you and act it well; the choice of the cast is Another’s....

…My favorite classic SF. The Star ©Arthur C. Clarke From The Nine Billion Names of God: The Best Short Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (1967: rpt. NY: Signet/NAL, 1974: 235-240) All rights reserved; not to be reprinted without permission of the author It is three thousand light-years to the Vatican. Once, I believed that space could have no power over faith, just as I believed the heavens declared the glory of God' s handwork....