Well, methinks you protest overmuch; if sloth were not on your list of favorite vices, you would have renewed yourpassport long ago just on principle!! But it may not be something you have time to indulge in just now, and I am glad you are taking care of your mum. That is much more important than defaming the earnest, thoughtful, compassionate, insightful, virtuous, kind, hard-working poltroons of MOAB. WHich, by the way, is a GREAT title for a sci-fi novel--

"The Poltroons of MOAB"

--whole swaths of plot just spring to mind!! And not a few characters, too.


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