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 * Ace: Maybe it’s one of those blips you’ve told me about that are so small they don’t mess up time.
 * Seventh Doctor: Poe isn’t a small blip. He was a writer of enormous influence. If he’d lived and written another twenty years, the whole history of American and European literature would be different.
 * Ace: But it’s not anything really important, like a vaccine or something. It’s just books.
 * Seventh Doctor: (tightly) Literature is an integral part of Earth culture.
 * PDA: The Algebra of Ice