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"Did you happen to notice how this kitten came aboard?"
"I notice everything. He didn't bother with the gangway; he came right
through my skin. It tickled. Is he hungry?" "Probably."
"I'll fix him something. Is he old enough for solid food?" "Yes. But no
lumps. Baby food." "Chop chop."
"Ladies," I said. "Jane Libby used the words 'brilliantly wrong' about
these German physicists. Surely you don't include Albert Einstein under that
heading?" "I surely do!" Deety answered emphatically. "I'm amazed. In my world
Einstein wears a halo." "In my world they bum him in effigy. Albert Einstein was
a pacifist but not an honest one. When his own ox was gored, he forgot all about
his pacifist principles and used his political influence to start the project
that produced the first city-killer bomb. His theoretical work was never much
and most of it has turned out to be fallacious. But he will live in infamy as
the pacifist politician turned killer. I despise him!"
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"Success lies in achieving the top of the food chain."
J. HARSHAW 1906-
About then the baby food for Pixel appeared, in a saucer that rose up out
of the table, I believe. But I can't swear to it, as it simply appeared. Feeding
the baby cat gave me a moment to think. The vehemence of Deety's statement had
surprised me. Those German physicists lived and worked in the first half of the
twentieth century-not too long ago by my notions of history, but if what these
Tertians wanted me to believe were true-unlikely!-a truly long time to them
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