someone's snow. `I am

EPILOGUE

One day when Luke was being chased by two FBI men with .45's he came to a cliff and leapt off, just catching the

roof to a wild vine twenty yards below the ridge and dangling there. Looking down, he saw fifty feet below six policemen with machineguns, mace, tear gas canisters and two armored cars. Just above him he saw two mice, one white and one black, beginning to gnaw away at the vine to which he clung. Suddenly he saw just in front of him a cluster of luscious ripe, strawberries.

`Ah,' he said. `A new option.' from The Book of the Die