Verse 1

At some time or other, everyone has felt a keen desire to change his life, to break away from his accustomed routine and embark on an entirely new mode of living. For the purpose of our story, we assume that this same urge is felt by characters who are purely fictitious, and that the immortals of literature, who exist only between the well worn covers of books, yearn for release from monopolies. Even as you and I in the fantasy we're about to present the feelings expressed by the people you meet, or their own, and not inspired by the authors of the Air. Having escaped through Copyright Lane into the limitless expanse of the public domain, they seek to assert themselves as independent entities