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"Would you like an egg in your beer? Why do you need two terminals? That
requires additional wiring."
"So it does and I'll pay for it. Because I'm a writer. I'll use one as a
wordprocessor and for library reference work. Mrs. Ames needs the other for
household routine."
"Oho! You plan to use residential space for business purposes. That calls
for commercial rates. Not residential rate."
"What does that come to?"
"It will have to be calculated. There is a costing factor for each type of
commercial use. Retail stores, restaurants, banks, and the like cost
approximately three times as much per cubic meter as does residential space.
Factory space does not cost as much as retail space but may have surcharges for
hazards and so forth. Warehousing is only slightly more than residential.
Offhand I think you will have to pay office space rates-that's a factor of three
point five-but I'll have to take it up with the chief accountant."
"Mr. Manager, do I understand you correctly? Are you planning to charge us
three and half times as much as our combined rents were together?"
"Approximately. It might be as low as three times."
"Well, well. I haven't concealed the fact that I'm a writer, it says so on
my passport and I'm listed that way in your directory, all the past five years.
Tell me why it suddenly makes a difference to you whether I use my terminal to
write letters home
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