Dr. Concrescence and the Daemons

Part 1: Induction

Dr. Concrescence loses track of what is happening outside the window. He remembers: Compulsively he wanted to label any “Introduction” he had ever written as induction.’ Earlier on, reading Fafrhd and the Grey Mouser, Fritz Leiber’s masterpiece of weird fantasy-fiction, he learned the word ‘Induction’ by Lieber’s audacious replacement of ‘introduction.’…