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. For a short while, that is."
"I see. Then it was just an oversight that I was not told where to move?"
"Oh, I'm sure you were told."
"I surely was not. Will you please tell me my new address?"
"Doctor, do you expect me to carry housing assignments in my head? Go wait
outside and someone will look it up and tell-you."
I ignored his suggestion/order. "Yes, I do think you carry them in your
head."
He snorted. "There are more than one hundred eighty thousand people in this
habitat. I have assistants and computers for such details."
"I'm sure you do. But you have given me strong reason to think that you do
have such details in your head... when they interest you. I'll give an example.
My wife was not introduced to you. Mungerson Fitts did not know her name, so he
could not have told you. But you knew without being told. You knew her name and
what compartment she lived in. Did live in, I mean, until you had her locked
out. Is that how you apply the Golden Rule, Mr. Sethos? By kicking out your
guests without even the courtesy of warning them ahead of time?"
"Doctor, are you trying to pick a fight?"
"No, I'm trying to find out why you have been hassling us. Bullying us.
Persecuting us. You and I both know that it has nothing to do with the temporary
dislocations caused by bringing the new section up to spin and welded on; that's
certain
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