So it goes.

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Steampunk novelist, channeling Kurt Vonnegut. World weary science editor. “All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.” So it goes.

Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth. —Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

Portrait of Kilgore Trout by Kurt Vonnegut

There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia. —Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

Mister Spock and Captain Kirk in disguise as 1920s gangsters. Kirk is holding a Tommy gun.