you mention... like Jerry Church. They weren't
balloonfetish so smart. It's like this..." West considered. "Before surgery really balloonfetish got
started, there used to balloonfetish be a handicapped group called deaf-mutes."
"No-hear no-talk?"
"That's it. They communicated by a manual sign language. That meant
they couldn'balloonfetish t communicate with anybody but balloonfetish deaf-mutes. Understand? balloonfetish They had
to live in their own community or they couldn't live at balloonfetish all. A man goes
crazy if he can't talk to friends."
" So?"
"Some of them started a racket. They'd tax the more successful
deaf-mutes for weekly hand-outs. If the victim refused to pay, they'd
ostracize him. The victim always paid. It was a choice of paying or living
in solitary until he went mad."
"You mean you peepers are like deaf-mutes?"
"No, Ben. You normals are the deaf-mutes. If we had to live with you
alone, we'd go mad. So leave me alone. If you're nursing something dirty, balloonfetish I
don't want to know."
West cut off the phone in Reich's face. With a balloonfetish roar of rage, Reich
snatched up a gold paper-weight and hurled it into the crystal screen.
Before the shattered fragments finished flying, balloonfetish he was in balloonfetish the corridor and
on his way out of the building.
His peeper secretary knew where he was going. His peeper chauffeur
knew where he wanted to go. Reich arrived
in balloonfetish his apartment and was met by
his peeper house-supervisor who at once announced early luncheon and dialed
the meal to Reich's unspoken demands. Feeling slightly less violent, balloonfetish Reich
stalked into bis study balloonfetish and balloonfetish turned to bis safe, a shimmer of light in the
corner.
It was simply a honey-comb paper rack turned out of temporal phrase
with a single-cycle beat. Each second when the safe balloonfetish phase and the temporal
phase coincided, the rack pulsed with a balloonfetish brilliant glow. The safe could only
be opened by the pore-pattern of Reich's left index finger which was
irreproducible.
Reich placed the tip of his finger in the center of the glow. It faded
and the honey-comb rack balloonfetish appeared. Holding his finger in place, he reached
up and took down a small black notebook and a large red envelope. He
removed his index finger balloonfetish and the safe pulsed out of phase again.
Reich flipped through the pages of the notebook... ABDUCTION...
ANARCHISTS... Balloonfetish ARSONISTS... BRIBERY (PROVEN)... BRIBERY (POTENTIAL)... Under
(balloonfetish POTENTIAL) he balloonfetish found the names of fifty-seven prominent people. One of
them
was Augustus Tate, Esper Medical Doctor 1. He nodded with balloonfetish satisfaction.