Noxus Podunkus
(Biting his nails and crossing his legs.) So! Quite so! The stars tell us! It couldn’t be different! And now, my dears (sighs from weariness), for the Tenth Great Question—one of those beautiful things that I always love to read and re-read. The most important one, I always think, in so far as astronomy is concerned, that has ever been devised. A Question so perfect that, when we pause to consider its absolute truthfulness and perfection, answers fully—oh, so fully!—all our astronomical needs. (Reads.) “Are not the stars maintained in their courses in order that man may progress and be moral?” (He contemplates a fly which has lit on the end of his nose.)