It all starts when Billy Dog realizes that he is having trouble seeing things that are far away. He takes a trip to the eye doctor to have an eye exam, and he gets his first pair of glasses. At first, he was apprehensive and resistant to getting glasses, but afterwards he realizes all the benefits they have!

Lenin is hard at work growing his revolutionary movement from exile in Switzerland. He learns of the fall of the Czar in the February Revolution of 1917 and begins planning his return to Russia. He is given the difficult choice of accepting German help to get him to Russia.

Billy engages in all sorts of ill-advised activities, which damage his eyes, causing him to make bad decisions as a result of his impaired vision.

Grim's new girlfriend doesn't believe Grim when he claims he can tell when people are "faking it" so she fakes having a heart attack. This completely convinces everyone else, including Grim. Compulsive liars can convince others of their lies because they convince themselves so much that they act out their lies authentically. They've been known to convince themselves so absolutely, they pass phonograph lie detector tests.

Examines the challenges to Egyptian religion and changes undertaken by the Pharaoh Akhenaten and his wife Nefertiti who tried to become the only link between the Egyptian people and the cosmos through their denial of polytheism.