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It&039;s a fact that Doc knows the Art Gallery better than any of us, really by heart, he being the oldest inhabitant, though he oing to take out after hiar," and he contented hi, "That nichevo - it&039;s so glooeheuerlich I tell you, Liebchen, they shouldn&039;t have Russians working for the Spiders not even as Entertainers"

I grinned at him and squeezed his hand "Not reed

He grinned back at me a shade sheepishly and his face sain for a second and he said, "I shouldn&039;t want to claw out at people that way, Greta, but at times I am just a jealous old man," which is not entirely true, as he isn&039;t a day over thirty-three, although his hair is nearly white

Our lovers had drifted on a few steps until they were alery screen It was the last spot I would have picked for the for, but Lili probably didn&039;t share h I reruembered she&039;d told me she&039;d served a brief hitch in an Arachnoid Field Hospital before transferred to the Place

But she couldn&039;t have had anything like the experience I&039;d bad during my short and sour career as a Spider nurse, when I&039;d acquired htmare and flopped co a doctor flick a switch and a being, badly injured but hue fruit - ugh, it always makes me want to toss my cookies and my buttons And to think that dear old Daddy Anton wanted his Greta chile to be a doctor

Well, I could see this wasn&039;t getting oing on

Doc was babbling soreat rate to Sid - I just hoped Doc wouldn&039;t get inspired to go into his animal imitations, which sound pretty fierce and once seriously offended so to Mark a 23rd Century two-step and Beau sat down at the piano and i relaxing notes hit us, Erich&039;s face brightened and he dragged h floor, which we don&039;t carpet because most of the ETs, the dear boys, like it hard, and I was shouldering back deep into the couch nearest the piano, with cushions around me and a fresh drink inready to discharge his Weltsch, which didn&039;t alars felt real good, like the Maintainer was just idling to keep the Place in existence anditself at all or atan occasional lazy paddle stroke At times the Place&039;s loneliness can be happy and comfortable

Then Beau raised an eyebrow at Erich, who nodded, and next thing they were launched into a song we all know, though I&039;ve never found out where it originally came from This time it made me think of Lili, and I wondered why - and why it&039;s a tradition at Recuperation Stations to call the new Lili, though in this case it happened to be her real na in the Doorway just

outside of space,

Winds of Change blow &039;round

you but don&039;t touch your face;

You smile as you whisper

tenderly,

"Please cross to me, Recuperee;

"The operation&039;s over, come

in and close the Door"