[ joke's on you, he can't be that offended by fortune telling because that's basically what his planet's entire religion is and everything is fonons!!

But yeah, as someone who's been doing science at the Foundation for a while now, it does seem very weird here! ]

That doesn't seem like the type of thing they'd incorporate into technology in this world at all. Everyone generally considers there to be a hard line between science and magic, as I understand it.

[ Tentatively opens the book to flip through it... ]