Her followers called her Maha-Sarah-cuda, and said she was a Presidential candidate. She preferred to drop the Maha- and the -cuda, however, and called herself Sarah. She never claimed to be a Presidential candidate. But then, she never claimed not to be a Presidential candidate. Circumstances being what they were, neither admission could be of any benefit. Silence, though, could.Therefore, there was mystery about her.
It was in the season of budget deficits . . .
it was well into the time of the great spending . . .
—Apologies to Roger Zelazny’s memory . . .
My little parody stands up pretty well, If I do say so myself. Of course, you have to have read the book to get the parody/joke/inference (which, if you like science fiction at all, you should. It's a GREAT book.)
I just wish for your list to be as complete as possible . . .
"he is described as a "tall, swarthy man" who resembles an ancient Egyptian pharaoh. In this story he wanders the earth, seemingly gathering legions of followers, the narrator of the story among them, through his demonstrations of strange and seemingly magical instruments. These followers lose awareness of the world around them, and through the narrator's increasingly unreliable accounts the reader gets an impression of the world's collapse. The story ends with the narrator as part of an army of servants for Nyarlathotep."