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." He said that with a straight face and Maureen scolded him
for it. I'm not certain that he was joking.
Nevertheless detente involved a major change in Hazel's plans. Lazarus was
correct in saying that all he had been trying to do was to implement a
previously agreed-on plan. But it had been further agreed that Hazel (not
Lazarus) was to implement the plan.
Hazel could have managed it, but Lazarus could not. Lazarus could never
sell it to me because I thought the whole thing was ridiculous. On the other
hand, if Hazel really wants something from me, I stand about as much chance of
holding out as-well, as Jinx Henderson has of refusing a request from his
daughter Gretchen.
But Lazarus couldn't see that.
I think Lazarus suffers from a compulsion to be the biggest frog in any
pond. He expects to be the bride at every wedding, the corpse at every
funeral... while pretending that he has no ambitions-just a barefoot country boy
with straw in his hair and manure between his toes.
If you think that I am not overly fond of Lazarus Long, I won't argue.
That plan was pretty much as Lazarus had described it. Hazel had expected
that I would join her in the Time Corps, and had planned for me to be
rejuvenated-systemic rejuvenation to biological age eighteen; cosmetic
rejuvenation, my choice. While this was going on I was to be taught Galacta,
study multiverse history at least for several time lines, and, after
rejuvenation, again take military training of several sorts until I became a
walking angel of death, armed or unarmed
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