"...even if I should tell you all about it you would regard us as a network of lodges or curious societies or comical conventions."
[p. 60.] "I try to live by certain norms, squarely as a square. One meaning of 'norma,' a norm, in Latin is a carpenter’s square." [p. 62.] "Some sort of lodge or society. Pretend to take themselves seriously, like the Baker Street Irregulars. I believe they also use a little esoterism such as may be picked up from the Los Angeles quakeries. They have titles and things. Pretend to divide the world into realms ruled by themselves." [p. 95.] [repeated on p. 115.]