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Would a one-gravity performance be disappointing after having seen the
Queen of Fairies cutting didoes high in the air? No, this was a sentimental
journey; it would not matter. Besides, Luanna Pauline had made (would make, will
make) her reputation dancing in one gravity-it would be a fascinating contrast.
We could go backstage and tell her that we saw her dance Titania at one-third
gravity in the Circus Room of Golden Rule. Oh, certainly-when Golden Rule does
not yet exist for another three years! I began to understand why the Code had
limitations on loose talk.
Never mind. On Neil Armstrong Day I would gift my beautiful bride with this
sentimental celebration.
While I was looking at the Herald-Register, an abstract design on the wall
changed to a motto in glowing letters: A Stitch in Time Saves Nine Billion While
I watched, it changed to: A Paradox Can Be Paradoctored Then: The Early Worm Has
a Death Wish Followed by: Don't Try TOO Hard; You Might Succeed
I was trying to figure out that last one when it suddenly changed to "Why
Are You Staring at a Blank Wall?"-and it was a blank wall. Then on it appeared,
large, the World Snake, and, inside the circle it made by its nauseating way of
eating, letters were chasing themselves. Then they leveled out into a straight
line:
Making Order Out of Chaos Then under that:
THE CIRCLE OF OUROBOROS
This was displaced by another archway; that brassy voice said: "Please
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