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What are you mumbling, Richard? 'Charlotte' who?"
"Nothing, nothing at all. Hazel... I do not carry life insurance."
"Then we must be extra careful to keep you alive. Stop taking baths!"
"If I do, in three or four weeks you'll regret it."
"Oh, I'll stop, too; it will balance out. Richard, will we have time today
to go out to the Authority Complex?"
"Perhaps. Why?"
'To find Adam Selene."
"Is he buried there?"
"That is something I must try to find out. Richard, is your believer in
good shape?"
"It's overstrained. Several years at right angles indeed! Want to buy a
space warp?"
"Thank you; I have one. In my purse. Those extra years are just a matter of
geometry, my husband. If you are wedded to the conventional picture of
space-time with just one time axis, then of course you find it hard to
understand. But there are at least three time axes just as there are at least
three space axes ... and I lived those extra years on other axes. All clear?"
"Utterly clear, my love. As self-evident as transcendentalism."
"I knew you would understand. The case of Adam Selene is more difficult.
When I was twelve I heard him speak many times; he was the inspiring leader who
held our Revolution together. Then he was killed-or so it was reported. It was
not until years later that Mama Wyoh told me, as deepest secret, that Adam was
not a man
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