Lipsky, himself a lawyer, tells the story of Lester Snitkin, an untrustworthy, small-time
lawyer who is whisked into the Unimaginable Future to save mankind from the perfect justice
meted out by the Justice Machine.
According to the Theory of Improbability, all moral qualities can be suitably quantified
under the so-called Lenin-Stalin-Khrushchev Transformation Equations. By these fruitful
formulations, it was discovered early in the twentieth century that everything can be
taken to mean anything else provided that the number field be restricted to the
transcendentals.