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went on to describe the landing of the Thetan colony
same empty streets as he had the night before ,
breakfast . It was a beautiful day , as firsts-of-June
them .
among our own people , finding out just how
We must learn all we can about
And third , to study these damned Thetans .
much freedom we can take with safety .
" Now , to summarize what I think our
Thetans like the plague , for they must not
course of action should be . First , to avoid the
find us out ! Second , to tread pretty warily
seats some rows behind him . Steve was
faces very disconcerting ; and looking at
Heather he found a welcome relief in her
followed the beaming Dan aboard , taking
beginning to find the stereotyped , flattish , happy
After a long wait a bus appeared and they
relatively long doleful one
expenses , with the people to whom Moke had
lucky to have descended from such economic altitudes .
Tom Dreyfus had a job on the machines in the Secretariat
( Stamp Department ) while Sally sulked at home .
The recovery of his balance was due to the
sent him : little people who regarded him as
fact that he was living , virtually without
as soon as he had spoken a few
Know how he did it ? He 's clever on
politics , Lester , give us something on
craterlet on Face ( ours is an agricultural
your mouth-organ . '
the mouth-organ . So when he visited some
sentences of his speech : ' Cut the
Back-Face area ) the cry would go up ,
the Senator who had annoyed the United States
W.C.U. by threatening to loose off one of his
bluff to succeed the next time ) and , lately , by
saying that if Mo land-troops had to come to the aid
Peron entered , a large man , who had once been
wore , and kept on indoors , a fifty gallon hat . Harry was
by bragging how he had once won a trick from
rockets ( an admission which would scarcely help
handsome but was now seedy-looking , a sufferer
prepared for something unpleasant , for this was
of the O.G.O. contingent in the Panama region ,
from stomach-ulcers . In the Back-Face tradition he
ding scale , and left the sum-total of their actions ,
be a centre of trust , responsible for the maintenance
pressed as when he left Mrs. Halliday's office ,
serve this home of his , in which his heart lay .
Here the rocket man's charm was disarming . Yet
when the time came to leave , Harry felt as de-
The motive would be the same in both cases , to
did what they had to do to get GO on an expan-
exactly a month ago . If even Mo statesmen only
and their lunar and earthly repercussions , to luck
( or to Moke ) , there was a vacuum where there should
bought their college education forward and
the parade .
turn . By comparing personal appearances
with university records , the agents of the
managers of corporations , together with professors
were now being bought forward in their
and women who interested them , and contracts
businesses would pick on young men
At the centre of each circle stood personnel
and their filing clerks . The students had
would be initialled at the end of
these fine young people was closely geared to
prospects would depend upon salaries , scholarship for
were really means . So , seeing them revolve in
Moke consciously or unconsciously symbolised , any-
circles , Harry had the feeling that Moke ( or what
people by the short hairs , and was diverting them ...
But since starting salaries would depend on grade A
economic and biological ends which , essentially ,
or B in the finals next May , and since mating
way in Harry's mind ) had these splendid young
with black , matted hair and a striking
hesitation in saying that they would have
resemblance to the shrunk heads we had
made an end of us but for an intervention
compels me to mention it .
Small , repulsive creatures they were ,
so unexpected , so unusual , that only the
necessity of rounding my narrative
gazed at recently ; and I have no
sible source of authority .
prepared for visitors . Mrs Caine said
and more definite , namely , that
another impression that became more
she was in touch with an invi-
we were to go no further unless and
hut had recently been cleaned and
until we were sent for , confirming
I had a distinct impression that the
Caught by a sudden gust of wind ? A
too carefree , and becoming airborne ?
single-decker Welsh bus could have got
combination of the two ? No one seems