Fragmentos de um fim-de-semana I

" 'My brother puzzled over it from the time he got it. He never figured it out, and neither did the Dickson. Some psionic talent. Precognition, he thinks. You japed the statue to prevent your own murder at the hands of the Cohorts. He thinks the Cohorts kill people who rise too high.'
'Do you agree?'
'No,' she said, 'because I know what the blob means. You do have something in your mind nobody else has. But it's not precognition.'
'What is it?'
Gretchen said: 'You have a sense of humour.' "

Philip K. Dick, The Man Who Japed