“It was a little difficult to see old friend Bill looking at me as if I was a robot sent to check him out. And also to be suggested by him that I examine him to see who he was representing, because he assumed that everybody was an agent at that point. Not necessarily for the government at all; an agent for a giant trust of insects from another galaxy actually. Women were suspect as being agents and Burroughs thought that maybe you had to exterminate all the women, or get rid of them one way or another. Evolve some sort of male that could give birth through parthenogenesis.”