xiii Recently there came a period when I had little to do. This was novel
in a life so crammed with busy years, and I decided to amuse myself by writing a novel that was pure science fiction.
p.2 "You can't believe all you read," said Char heavily.
p.3 you only got your appointment because you are clever. That's right,
clever. Not intelligent. Clever.
p.4 "I'm going to go out and catch one of these things [JLJ - a man - the Earth of the future has
been occupied by invading Psychlos]," said Terl...
"You're as crazy as a nebula of crap," said Char.
p.75 Terl only felt operational when he had big leverage in terms
of potential blackmail.
p.80 Everything had been running so well. And now ten years more! Diseased
crap, he couldn't stand that! Leverage. He had to have leverage on Numph. Big leverage.
p.84 This man-thing had sensed that it had leverage. He sat there studying the man-thing.
Did it have any inkling of the plans?
p.87 Leverage. He had no leverage at all these days.
p.88 Terl walked away. Leverage. He had no leverage.
p.89 Leverage, leverage. He didn't have any.
p.91 Leverage, leverage. He didn't have any leverage on this fool.
p.92 Leverage, leverage. If he could know this, maybe he'd have leverage. He'd have to keep his eyes and
ears open.
p.93 Leverage, leverage. Damn not having leverage on this animal.
p.96 Leverage, leverage. That's what Terl needed.
p.101 Terl grated his fangs. Leverage, leverage, all was leverage, and he didn't have anything at all on
Zzt.
p.108 Leverage. Leverage, thought Terl. He was fresh out of it.
p.114 He had potential leverage on Numph but Terl did not know what it was.
p.117 Leverage. Leverage. Stage one of this lever was done, and he was going to pull it and good.
p.126 Terl... dreamed beautiful dreams wherein leverage made him wealthy, crowned him king, and got him
far away from this accursed planet.
p.129 Fear and leverage. If you didn't have leverage you could make fear work... But he had a lot to do
to get both fear and leverage and get enough of them to break this animal and cow it completely.
p.135 Leverage. It had to be leverage. Lots of it!
p.139 Leverage, leverage. He had none on Numph. And he had none at all on the animal.
Terl would have to get busy.
p.456 He began to tally up the bits and scraps of leverage he had.
p.554 Sitting there listening to these endless arguments and objections, he recalled a conversation - purely
social - he had had with that friendly creature, Terl. It had been on the subject of leverage. If one had leverage,
one could do pretty well what he pleased. Sound philosophy.
p.831 Had Jonnie thought of a strategy? A strategy was very necessary.
p.833 And so far he had no strategy at all.
