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Crofts. ” “What we’re doing is wrong,” Crofts repeated. Secretly Herrick stared at him angrily. “No wonder those empathy boxes have done harm! Now I’ve seen it with my own eyes. ” He picked up the empathy box which Crofts had used. Lifting it high he dropped it to the floor. The box cracked open and then settled in a heap of irregular surfaces. “Don’t consider that a childish act,” he said. “I want any contact between us and Meritan broken. ” “Be that as it may, I intend to continue,” Secretary Herrick said.

And, taking a deep breath, prepared himself. The War with the Fnools Captain Edgar Lightfoot of CIA said, “Darn it, the Fnools are back again, Major. ” With a groan, Major Hauk signaled his secretary to bring him the Fnool dossier from the locked archives. ” he asked briskly. “Tiny real-estate salesmen,” Lightfoot said. Last time, Major Hauk reflected, it had been filling station attendants. That was the thing about the Fnools. When one took a particular shape they all took that shape. Of course, it made detection for CIA fieldmen much easier.

It was not the avoidance of something but the seeking of something. And not the pain as such; Crofts knew better than to suppose that the Mercerites were simple masochists who desired discomfort. It was, he knew, the meaning of the pain which attracted Mercer’s followers. The followers were suffering from something. Aloud, he said to his superior, “They want to suffer as a means of denying their private, personal existences. ” Like the Last Supper, he thought. That’s the real key: the communion, the participation that is behind all religion.

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