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. I-"
Hilda's Jacob Burroughs had followed us in. "Nonsense, Lib. False modesty
makes me sick."
"Then be sick, darling, but not on the rug. Jacob, neither your opinion,
nor mine-nor that of Lazarus-is relevant; we arc what we are, each of us-and I
understand there is work to be done. Lazarus, what happened?"
"Wait for Deety and the boys, so we don't have to discuss it twice. Where's
Jane Libby?"
"Here, Uncle Woodie." Just entering was a naked girl who resembled- Look,
I'm going to stop talking about family resemblances, hair red or otherwise, and
the presence or absence of clothing. On Tertius, through climate and custom,
clothing was optional, usually worn in public, sometimes worn at home. In the
Lazarus Long household the males were more likely to wear something than the
females but there was no rule that I could ever figure out.
Red hair was common in Tertius, still more common in the Long family-a
"prize ram" effect (as stockmen say) from Lazarus... but not alone from Lazarus;
there were two other sources in that family, unrelated to Lazarus and unrelated
to each other: Elizabeth Andrew Jackson Libby Long and Dejah Thoris (Deety)
Burroughs Carter Long-and still another source that I was not then aware of.
People who favor the Gilgamesh theory have noted how redheads tend to
clump, e.g., Rome, Lebanon, south Ireland, Scotland
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