"Lemme tell ya, a lot of these guys will spin all kinds 'a horror stories about the Everything 2 Civil War, but for the record? I gotta say that it was the best goddamn time 'a my life.

"See that hill over there? That's where they dropped theonomist. (laughs) When he hit, he went off like a goddamn atom bomb - those punks sure weren't expecting that! Death from above, ya know? Lit up the database like the friggin' Fourth of July.

"'Course, lotta those Everything guys were Canadian - wouldn't know the Fourth if it bit 'em on the ass. I don't hold their nation of origin against 'em, though - when it came down to fighting hand-to-hand, down in the trenches, those Canucks were some of the toughest, meanest bastards I ever seen. Fought like wildcats, they did.

"Music? Sure, we had music. Lotta Neal Young and Bob Dylan being noded in those days; knifegirl liked t'listen to Barry White while the bombs were goin' off. Get all liquored up, start a fistfight. Strange girl. A real scrapper, though."