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. Will be there. Ask Dr. Hubert-Lazarus
Long. He thought this place was too dangerous to hang around any longer. Ask
him." "Colonel Campbell!"
I knew that voice; I turned and said, "Hi, Lazarus." "That sort of talk is
strictly forbidden. Understand me?" I took a deep breath, then said to Hazel,
"He'll never learn"- then to Lazarus, "Doc, you've been trying to make me stand
at attention ever since we first met. It won't work. Can't you get that through
your head?"
Somewhere, somewhen, Lazarus Long had had some sort of formal training in
emotional control. I could now see him calling on it to help him. It took him
about three seconds to invoke whatever it was he used, then he spoke quietly, in
a lower register:
"Let me try to explain. Such talk is dangerous to the person you talk to.
Making predictions, I mean, from knowledge gained from a loop. It is an observed
fact that, again and again, it turns out to be a disservice to the person you
inform when you tell him something in his future that you have learned in your
past.
"As to why this is true, I suggest that you consult one of the
mathematicians who deal with time-Dr. Jacob Burroughs, or Dr. Elizabeth Long, or
anyone from the Corps' staff of mathematicians. And you should consult the
council of historians for examples of the harm it does. Or you could look it up
in our headquarters library-file 'Cassandra' and file 'Ides of March,' for
starters, then see file 'Nostradamus
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