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Quote #10
"God, what a marathon assignment," Rick said. "Once I began on it there wasn't any way for me to stop; it kept carrying me along, until finally I got to the Batys, and then suddenly I didn't have anything to do. And that—" He hesitated, evidently amazed at what he had begun to say. "That was the worst," he said.
Rick's experience with the Batys became the worst once it's in the past. Once it's done, it becomes permanent and can't be undone. Luckily, this is a Philip K. Dick novel: nothing, not even the past, is all that permanent.