Sure—that’s the concept. It wouldn’t be the first concept that had to — Keith Laumer

"“All right. Let’s begin with the world situation.” “I’d prefer a more cheerful subject—like cancer.”"

"The last burst picked me up and threw me a thousand miles into an open grave and the mud showered down on me and a giant tombstone fell out of the sky to mark the place, but I didn’t care any more, because I was far away, in that place where the heroes and the cowards lie together with a fine impartiality, waiting for eternity to pass, slowly, like a procession of snails creeping across an endless desert toward a distant line of mountains. (p. 18)"

"“M-magic?” Lafayette stuttered. “Nonsense. Electronics.”"

"He turned; she stood in the doorway, clad in an invisible negligee."

"“Impossible!” he said, as if he believed it—or as if he wanted awfully badly to believe it."

"Adventure has been defined as somebody else having a difficult time, a long way away. (p. 17)"