" I backed the chair away from them until I was across the room."Don't move from the sofa," I told them, "What ever you do, just stay seated." I close...d my eyes and relaxed as best I could. Then I opened the gate part way. My father had taught me how several years before he had died. Then I had only been a secondary gate. Now I was the main portal and hoped that I could close it again when I needed to. In a few seconds, I opened my eyes. The fog was quickly forming. In another half minute, the. It seems there are adverse effects of using the Inspirer 2000 for more than twenty minutes at a time. The radiation from its transmission waves is in particular harmful to human tissue." "What does that mean?" I asked, bewildered. "Just don't use the unit any more today. It's dangerous to use it for more than twenty minutes a day. The radiation exposure..." "That's the second time you've said that. What does it *mean*?" Click. Dial tone. He had hung up. * * * Still no inspiration, even after. The world burned, and for half a decade, civil war and strife reigned as governments tried in vain to replicate the success of China’s one child policy on a global scale. Then, when all hope seemed lost, something changed. Over the course of several months in 2035, the global birthrate dropped precipitously. Some called it an act of God, others an act of terrorism, but whatever it was by December 31st, 2035, more than four fifths of humanity had become sterile.Less than a year later and. The difference in the ways of working, by which men are the actors, and women are the persons acted upon, is owing to the nature of the male and the female, otherwise the actor would be sometimes the person acted upon, and vice versa. And from this difference in the ways of working follows the difference in the consciousness of pleasure, for a man thinks, 'this woman is united with me', and a woman thinks, 'I am united with this man'.It may be said that, if the ways of working in men and women.