Speaker For The Diodes - June 14th, 2013

05:24 am - QotD

From Orion Shall Rise by Poul Anderson (1983, Timescape Books):

"Sir President, honored Seniors, Clansfolk and people of the Domain, let me first thank you sincerely and humbly for your patience. This occasion is unprecedented and therefore twice difficult--"

Not altogether meaningless noise. Monkeys groom each other with fingers, humans with words.