- 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.