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[ "Why is Si retirement so significant to the Space Exploration Team? ", "What makes Gubelin an outlier in the present day?", "What is the main reason that Gubelin is so resentful of Si’s decision?", "What is the main reason behind the Welfare State operating as it does?", "What happens to drafted workers?", "Why is Si so astonished when there is a real bartender working the bar?", "Why does Si deliberate on how to spend his night?", "What is the “space cafard” that Si describes? " ]
[ [ "There aren’t enough working people in the world. They won’t be able to find a replacement.", "As one of two remaining spacemen, it would likely mean the defunding and shut down of the Space Exploration Team.", "Training new spacemen is costly and time consuming. They won’t have anyone else ready after him.", "His retirement may inspire others to stop working as well, which would be hugely detrimental as most people don't feel the drive to work as is. " ], [ "He is much older than the rest of the population.", "He refuses new operations that could improve his health.", "His mind is still active, and he values hard work.", "He still wears glasses and value objects like the gold watch given to Si." ], [ "He doesn’t want to have to go through the effort of training a new spaceman, as it’s very costly and time consuming.", "He regrets not having the opportunity of space exploration himself.", "He fears the end of the Space Exploration program, and for mankind’s research of space to come to an end.", "He hates the Welfare State and how it’s taken away people’s drive to learn and explore." ], [ "Automation with computers has made the need to work largely obsolete. ", "The current populace is not skilled enough to work, and thus most people are a part of the Welfare State", "The government does not want new workers, and is content supplying people with the funds they need to get through life. ", "Overtime, the public has lost its drive to work. Thus, no one enforces a workforce." ], [ "They train and work for a time, then retire with extra funds.", "They receive no pay, and have to undergo training and work for some time", "They are called upon throughout their life for periods of work.", "They work a short period of time, then return to normal life." ], [ "He hasn’t been talking to people, and Si is caught off guard seeing someone face to face again after so long.", "He’s never seen a bartender before, nor been in an establishment that has one.", "He was in his thoughts considering his money, and was caught off guard.", "He didn’t expect it. It’s a job that is normally automated, and it’s shocking to see a human working it." ], [ "He finally has the opportunity to let loose, and wants to revel in it.", "He’s spent his money on “cheap” entertainment in the past, and wants to do better now. ", "He’s not used to this freedom and is unsure what to do.", "He’s not used to living this way and is uncomfortable." ], [ "It’s the isolation that spacemen feel working alone in space, with only computers as company", "It’s the public’s adverse opinion of space exploration that Gubelin tries to hide.", "It’s the desire to return home from a long voyage.", "It is the current system of operations for spacecraft, where people man ships with only one person." ] ]
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[ [ "The fact of the matter was, Si knew that his retiring had set them\n back. They hadn't figured he had enough shares of Basic to see him", "that you were the last of the space pilots. The last man in the whole\n world trained to pilot a space craft. And here you were, retiring.\"", "Si was expansive. \"Why, sure. In the Space Department we don't have\n much time for formality. Everybody's just Si, and Doc, and Jim. Like", "Si Pond was surprised. \"Cried?\" he said. \"Well, why? I was kind of\n bored with the whole thing. But old Doc Gubelin, I used to work under\n him in the Space Exploration department, he was hot for it.\"", "\"Well,\" Si said modestly, \"two of my runs were only to the Moon.\"", "To start off, he dressed with great care in the honorable\n retirement-rank suit he had so recently purchased. His space pin he\n attached carefully to the lapel. That was a good beginning, he decided.", "Si, disconcerted by the sudden reversal, said, \"Yeah ... sure.\"\n\n\n \"Good Heavens, you're a spaceman?\"", "No. Even as Si listened to their speeches, accepted the watch and\n made a halting little talk of his own, he was grinning inwardly. There", "\"Nothing too good for ex-Space Pilot Si Pond,\" he said aloud.", "nor the significance of Seymour Pond's retirement. Si didn't bother to\n remember his name. He only wondered vaguely why the cloddy had turned\n up at all.", "the more pragmatic advantages such as complete retirement after but six\n trips, added shares of Basic so that he could enjoy a more comfortable\n life than most and the fame that would accrue to him as one of the", "The car hesitated for a moment, that brief hesitation before the\n shot, and Si took the involuntary breath from which only heroes could\n refrain. He sank back slowly into the seat. Moments passed, and the\n direction of the pressure was reversed.", "Si chuckled. \"A real buff, eh? You know, it's kind of funny. I was\n never much interested in it. And I got a darn sight less interested\n after my first run and I found out what space cafard was.\"", "\"... and he said all those things about man's conquest of space. And\n the dream of the stars which man has held so long. And then the fact", "the finals. On this occasion, he and Rod had celebrated together. It\n had been quite a party. Two weeks later, Rod had burned on a faulty\n take-off on what should have been a routine Moon run.", "Si grunted. \"Yeah. That's all part of the Doc's scheme to get me to\n take on another three runs. They're afraid the whole department'll be", "delving into space.\" Gubelin snapped his fingers. \"Like that, either of\n us would give our lives to prevent man from completely abandoning the\n road to his destiny.\"", "keeps that angle mostly hushed up and out of the magazine and newspaper\n articles. Says there's enough adverse publicity about space exploration\n already. But at this stage of the game when the whole ship's crammed", "They also had a banquet for him, complete with speeches by such\n bigwigs of the Department of Space Exploration as Academician Lofting", "point. The man is the only trained space pilot in the world. It will\n take months, possibly more than a year, to bring another novitiate\n pilot to the point where he can safely be trusted to take our next" ], [ "Gubelin would have even worn facial hair, had he but a touch more\n courage. Gubelin longed for yesteryear, a seldom found phenomenon under\n the Ultrawelfare State.", "typical, he being in the way of a living anachronism himself. In fact,\n Academician Gubelin was possibly the only living man on North America\n who still wore spectacles. His explanation was that a phobia against", "Gubelin grunted bitterly. \"Unfortunately, our present-day sailor\n can't be separated from his money quite so easily. If he could, I'd", "Gubelin and Doctor Hans Girard-Perregaux. There was also somebody\n from the government who spoke, but he was one of those who were\n pseudo-elected and didn't know much about the field of space travel", "\"\nAcademician\nGubelin?\" she said. \"You just call him\nDoc\n?\"", "delving into space.\" Gubelin snapped his fingers. \"Like that, either of\n us would give our lives to prevent man from completely abandoning the\n road to his destiny.\"", "Slumped in an autochair in the escape room of his Floridian home,\n Lofting Gubelin scowled at his friend. He said, acidly, \"Any more", "Sitting in the Kudos Room with the most beautiful girl to whom he had\n ever talked, Si could be nonchalant about the subject. \"Old Gubelin", "Gubelin, half angry at his friend's argument, leaned forward to snap\n rebuttal, but the other was wagging a finger at him negatively. \"Face", "Gubelin blinked at him.", "That was only an alibi so far as his closest associate, Hans\n Girard-Perregaux, was concerned. Doctor Girard-Perregaux was convinced", "So old man Gubelin, and Girard-Perregaux too, they're both trying to\n pressure me into more trips. Otherwise they got a Space Exploration", "Si Pond was surprised. \"Cried?\" he said. \"Well, why? I was kind of\n bored with the whole thing. But old Doc Gubelin, I used to work under\n him in the Space Exploration department, he was hot for it.\"", "They could count down and blast off, for all he gave a damn.\nThe gold watch idea had been that of Lofting Gubelin, which was", "He said, \"No, he hasn't. Few there are who have, nowadays. Man has\n always paid lip service to adventure, hardships and excitement, but in", "They gave him a gold watch. It was meant to be symbolical, of course.\n In the old tradition. It was in the way of an antique, being one of the", "\"But has he no spirit of adventure? Has he no feeling for....\"\nGirard-Perregaux was wagging his finger again, a gesture that,", "and everything about them, ever since I was a child. I suppose you'd\n say I have the dream that Doctor Girard-Perregaux spoke about.\"", "actuality his instincts, like those of any other animal, lead him to\n the least dangerous path. Today we've reached the point where no one\n need face danger—ever. There are few who don't take advantage of the", "Doctor Girard-Perregaux made. There you stood, so fine and straight in\n your space-pilot uniform, the veteran of six exploration runs to the\n planets....\"" ], [ "Si Pond was surprised. \"Cried?\" he said. \"Well, why? I was kind of\n bored with the whole thing. But old Doc Gubelin, I used to work under\n him in the Space Exploration department, he was hot for it.\"", "Gubelin, half angry at his friend's argument, leaned forward to snap\n rebuttal, but the other was wagging a finger at him negatively. \"Face", "The fact of the matter was, Si knew that his retiring had set them\n back. They hadn't figured he had enough shares of Basic to see him", "Sitting in the Kudos Room with the most beautiful girl to whom he had\n ever talked, Si could be nonchalant about the subject. \"Old Gubelin", "No. Even as Si listened to their speeches, accepted the watch and\n made a halting little talk of his own, he was grinning inwardly. There", "Gubelin would have even worn facial hair, had he but a touch more\n courage. Gubelin longed for yesteryear, a seldom found phenomenon under\n the Ultrawelfare State.", "Si grunted. \"Yeah. That's all part of the Doc's scheme to get me to\n take on another three runs. They're afraid the whole department'll be", "delving into space.\" Gubelin snapped his fingers. \"Like that, either of\n us would give our lives to prevent man from completely abandoning the\n road to his destiny.\"", "Slumped in an autochair in the escape room of his Floridian home,\n Lofting Gubelin scowled at his friend. He said, acidly, \"Any more", "Gubelin grunted bitterly. \"Unfortunately, our present-day sailor\n can't be separated from his money quite so easily. If he could, I'd", "Gubelin blinked at him.", "of twenty-five and was registered for the labor draft, there hadn't\n been a chance in a hundred that he'd have the bad luck to have his\n name pulled. But when it had been, Si had celebrated.", "The car hesitated for a moment, that brief hesitation before the\n shot, and Si took the involuntary breath from which only heroes could\n refrain. He sank back slowly into the seat. Moments passed, and the\n direction of the pressure was reversed.", "\"\nAcademician\nGubelin?\" she said. \"You just call him\nDoc\n?\"", "typical, he being in the way of a living anachronism himself. In fact,\n Academician Gubelin was possibly the only living man on North America\n who still wore spectacles. His explanation was that a phobia against", "Gubelin and Doctor Hans Girard-Perregaux. There was also somebody\n from the government who spoke, but he was one of those who were\n pseudo-elected and didn't know much about the field of space travel", "That was only an alibi so far as his closest associate, Hans\n Girard-Perregaux, was concerned. Doctor Girard-Perregaux was convinced", "Thus, Si was vaguely aware, it had always been down through the\n centuries since the Phoenecian sailor, back from his year-long trip to", "They could count down and blast off, for all he gave a damn.\nThe gold watch idea had been that of Lofting Gubelin, which was", "So old man Gubelin, and Girard-Perregaux too, they're both trying to\n pressure me into more trips. Otherwise they got a Space Exploration" ], [ "Ultrawelfare State, he was guaranteed his fundamental womb-to-tomb\n security by being issued that minimum number of Basic shares in our\n society that allows him an income sufficient to secure the food,", "A bit of prestige didn't hurt you when you went out on the town. In\n the Ultrawelfare State hardly one person in a hundred actually ever\n performed anything of value to society. The efforts of most weren't", "In the early days of the Ultrawelfare State, they had made a mistake\n in adapting to the automation of the second industrial revolution.", "\"At that time there wasn't such a blistering percentage of funkers\n throughout this whole blistering Ultrawelfare State! Who could", "made his six trips. He is now legally eligible for retirement. He was\n drafted into the working force reserves, served his time, and is now\n free from toil for the balance of his life. Why should he listen to", "clothing, shelter, medical care and education to sustain a low level\n of subsistence. Percentages were against his ever being drafted\n into industry. Automation being what it is, only a fraction of the", "They had attempted to give everyone work by reducing the number of\n working hours in the day, and the number of working days in the week.\n It finally became ludicrous when employees of industry were working", "actuality his instincts, like those of any other animal, lead him to\n the least dangerous path. Today we've reached the point where no one\n need face danger—ever. There are few who don't take advantage of the", "the Ultrawelfare State and had been pressured into taking training\n for space pilot, he had celebrated once again. Twenty-two others had\n taken the training with him, and only he and Rod Cameroon had passed", "unemployment insurance, while the few workers still needed put in a\n reasonable number of hours a day, a reasonable number of weeks a year\n and a reasonable number of years in a life time. When new employees", "When he had been informed that his physical and mental qualifications\n were such that he was eligible for the most dangerous occupation in", "Gubelin would have even worn facial hair, had he but a touch more\n courage. Gubelin longed for yesteryear, a seldom found phenomenon under\n the Ultrawelfare State.", "Si Pond was a great believer in the institution of the spree. Any\n excuse would do. Back when he had finished basic education at the age", "No. Even as Si listened to their speeches, accepted the watch and\n made a halting little talk of his own, he was grinning inwardly. There", "Now it was all over. At the age of thirty he was retired. Law prevented\n him from ever being called up for contributing to the country's labor\n needs again. And he most certainly wasn't going to volunteer.", "The only fair thing was to let the technologically unemployed remain\n unemployed, with their Inalienable Basic stock as the equivalent of", "Si grunted. \"Yeah. That's all part of the Doc's scheme to get me to\n take on another three runs. They're afraid the whole department'll be", "To his disappointment, there were no recognizable celebrities. None\n that he placed, at least—top teevee stars, top politicians of the\n Ultrawelfare State or Sports personalities.", "Yes, but now it was all over. He had his own little place, his own\n vacuum-tube vehicle and twice the amount of shares of Basic that most", "Think it's kind of a big boondoggle deal to help use up a lot of\n materials and all and keep the economy going.\"" ], [ "It had come as a surprise when he'd been drafted for the labor force.", "of twenty-five and was registered for the labor draft, there hadn't\n been a chance in a hundred that he'd have the bad luck to have his\n name pulled. But when it had been, Si had celebrated.", "clothing, shelter, medical care and education to sustain a low level\n of subsistence. Percentages were against his ever being drafted\n into industry. Automation being what it is, only a fraction of the", "All persons registered in the labor force participated. If you\n were drawn, you must need serve. The dissatisfaction those chosen", "Now it was all over. At the age of thirty he was retired. Law prevented\n him from ever being called up for contributing to the country's labor\n needs again. And he most certainly wasn't going to volunteer.", "were needed, a draft lottery was held.", "made his six trips. He is now legally eligible for retirement. He was\n drafted into the working force reserves, served his time, and is now\n free from toil for the balance of his life. Why should he listen to", "They had attempted to give everyone work by reducing the number of\n working hours in the day, and the number of working days in the week.\n It finally became ludicrous when employees of industry were working", "When he had been informed that his physical and mental qualifications\n were such that he was eligible for the most dangerous occupation in", "population is ever called up. But Pond was. His industrial aptitude\n dossier revealed him a possible candidate for space pilot, and it was\n you yourself who talked him into taking the training ... pointing out", "but two days a week, two hours a day. In fact, it got chaotic. It\n became obvious that it was more practical to have one worker putting in", "that you were the last of the space pilots. The last man in the whole\n world trained to pilot a space craft. And here you were, retiring.\"", "The car hesitated for a moment, that brief hesitation before the\n shot, and Si took the involuntary breath from which only heroes could\n refrain. He sank back slowly into the seat. Moments passed, and the\n direction of the pressure was reversed.", "very few who still participate in travel to the planets. Very well.\n He was sold. Took his training, which, of course, required long years\n of drudgery to him. Then, performing his duties quite competently, he", "Yes, but now it was all over. He had his own little place, his own\n vacuum-tube vehicle and twice the amount of shares of Basic that most", "one short drink with the boys, before taking his accumulated pay and\n heading home. The one short drink would lead to another. And morning\n would find him, drunk, rolled, tattooed and possibly sleeping it off in", "needed. Those few who did contribute were awarded honors, decorations,\n titles.", "quite so little for his money as that loneliest of all workers, he who\n must leave his home for distant lands, returning only periodically and\n usually with the salary of lengthy, weary periods of time to be spent", "actuality his instincts, like those of any other animal, lead him to\n the least dangerous path. Today we've reached the point where no one\n need face danger—ever. There are few who don't take advantage of the", "unemployment insurance, while the few workers still needed put in a\n reasonable number of hours a day, a reasonable number of weeks a year\n and a reasonable number of years in a life time. When new employees" ], [ "There was actually a bartender.\n\n\n Si Pond suppressed his astonishment and said, offhand, attempting an\n air of easy sophistication, \"Slivovitz Sour.\"", "\"Si,\" Si said. He motioned to the bartender with a circular twist of\n the hand indicating their need for two more of the same. \"How come you", "There was nothing the bartender could say to that, and he went about\n building the drink.\n\n\n Si cleared his throat. \"Hey,\" he said, \"how about letting this one be\n on me?\"", "Si, carrying his glass, moved over to the stool next to her. \"Call me\n Si,\" he said. \"Everybody calls me Si.\"", "He turned back to his drink and noticed, for the first time, the girl\n who occupied the stool two down from him. Si Pond blinked. He blinked\n and then swallowed.", "No. Even as Si listened to their speeches, accepted the watch and\n made a halting little talk of his own, he was grinning inwardly. There", "\"Funny?\" she said. \"Why, I don't think it's funny at all.\"\n\n\n Si said, \"Look, how about another drink?\"", "\"Si,\" Si said, gratified. Holy Zoroaster, he'd never seen anything\n like this rarified pulchritude. Maybe on teevee, of course, one of the", "Si, disconcerted by the sudden reversal, said, \"Yeah ... sure.\"\n\n\n \"Good Heavens, you're a spaceman?\"", "Si took his time. Not that he really needed it. It was by far the most\n swank suite he had ever seen. One wall was a window of whatever size", "The bartender said hurriedly, \"I beg your pardon, sir....\"\n\n\n The girl, her voice suddenly subtly changed, said, \"Why, isn't that a\n space pin?\"", "of twenty-five and was registered for the labor draft, there hadn't\n been a chance in a hundred that he'd have the bad luck to have his\n name pulled. But when it had been, Si had celebrated.", "The car hesitated for a moment, that brief hesitation before the\n shot, and Si took the involuntary breath from which only heroes could\n refrain. He sank back slowly into the seat. Moments passed, and the\n direction of the pressure was reversed.", "The drinks in the Kudos Room might be concocted by hand, but Si noticed\n they had the routine teevee screens built into the bar for payment.", "She looked at him coldly, turned to the bartender and murmured, \"A Far\n Out Cooler, please, Fredric.\" Then deliberately added, \"I thought the\n Kudos Room was supposed to be exclusive.\"", "of his fellow citizens could boast. Si Pond had it made. A spree was\n obviously called for.", "that. But how come you cried?\"\nShe looked down into the drink the bartender had placed before her,\n as though avoiding his face. \"I ... I suppose it was that speech", "Each time Si returned from one of his own runs, he celebrated. A spree,\n a bust, a bat, a wing-ding, a night on the town. A commemoration of\n dangers met and passed.", "The auto-elevator murmured politely, \"Yes, sir, the Kudos Room.\"\nAt the door to the famous rendezvous of the swankiest set, Si paused a", "She was obviously both taken back and impressed. \"Why,\" she said,\n \"you're Seymour Pond, the pilot. I tuned in on the banquet they gave\n you.\"" ], [ "Each time Si returned from one of his own runs, he celebrated. A spree,\n a bust, a bat, a wing-ding, a night on the town. A commemoration of\n dangers met and passed.", "Si took his time. Not that he really needed it. It was by far the most\n swank suite he had ever seen. One wall was a window of whatever size", "No. Even as Si listened to their speeches, accepted the watch and\n made a halting little talk of his own, he was grinning inwardly. There", "of his fellow citizens could boast. Si Pond had it made. A spree was\n obviously called for.", "For a moment he stood in the center of the floor, in thought. Take it\n easy, Si Pond, take it all easy, this time. No throwing his dollars", "The car hesitated for a moment, that brief hesitation before the\n shot, and Si took the involuntary breath from which only heroes could\n refrain. He sank back slowly into the seat. Moments passed, and the\n direction of the pressure was reversed.", "of twenty-five and was registered for the labor draft, there hadn't\n been a chance in a hundred that he'd have the bad luck to have his\n name pulled. But when it had been, Si had celebrated.", "\"Si,\" Si said. He motioned to the bartender with a circular twist of\n the hand indicating their need for two more of the same. \"How come you", "would. His monthly dividends were due in another week or so, and he\n wouldn't have to worry about current expenses. Yes, indeedy, Si Pond\n was as solvent as he had ever been in his thirty years.", "Thus, Si was vaguely aware, it had always been down through the\n centuries since the Phoenecian sailor, back from his year-long trip to", "Si, carrying his glass, moved over to the stool next to her. \"Call me\n Si,\" he said. \"Everybody calls me Si.\"", "There was nothing the bartender could say to that, and he went about\n building the drink.\n\n\n Si cleared his throat. \"Hey,\" he said, \"how about letting this one be\n on me?\"", "\"Funny?\" she said. \"Why, I don't think it's funny at all.\"\n\n\n Si said, \"Look, how about another drink?\"", "Attired satisfactorily, Si double-checked to see that his credit\n card was in his pocket. As an after-thought, he went over to the", "Si Pond was a great believer in the institution of the spree. Any\n excuse would do. Back when he had finished basic education at the age", "Si was going to do it differently this time.", "He turned back to his drink and noticed, for the first time, the girl\n who occupied the stool two down from him. Si Pond blinked. He blinked\n and then swallowed.", "the guest might desire and Si touched the control that dilated it to\n the full. His view opened in such wise that he could see both the\n Empire State Building Museum and the Hudson. Beyond the river stretched", "\"Si,\" Si said, gratified. Holy Zoroaster, he'd never seen anything\n like this rarified pulchritude. Maybe on teevee, of course, one of the", "Si grunted. \"Yeah. That's all part of the Doc's scheme to get me to\n take on another three runs. They're afraid the whole department'll be" ], [ "Si chuckled. \"A real buff, eh? You know, it's kind of funny. I was\n never much interested in it. And I got a darn sight less interested\n after my first run and I found out what space cafard was.\"", "flock of people aboard, there won't be any such thing as space cafard,\n but....\" Of a sudden the right side of Si Pond's mouth began to tic", "haul to the Jupiter satellites, fearfully checking the symptoms of\n space cafard, the madness compounded of claustrophobia, monotony,", "was never going to subject himself to space cafard again. Just thinking\n about it, now, set the tic to going at the side of his mouth.", "The car hesitated for a moment, that brief hesitation before the\n shot, and Si took the involuntary breath from which only heroes could\n refrain. He sank back slowly into the seat. Moments passed, and the\n direction of the pressure was reversed.", "Si was expansive. \"Why, sure. In the Space Department we don't have\n much time for formality. Everybody's just Si, and Doc, and Jim. Like", "Each time Si returned from one of his own runs, he celebrated. A spree,\n a bust, a bat, a wing-ding, a night on the town. A commemoration of\n dangers met and passed.", "Si, disconcerted by the sudden reversal, said, \"Yeah ... sure.\"\n\n\n \"Good Heavens, you're a spaceman?\"", "Si Pond was surprised. \"Cried?\" he said. \"Well, why? I was kind of\n bored with the whole thing. But old Doc Gubelin, I used to work under\n him in the Space Exploration department, he was hot for it.\"", "delving into space.\" Gubelin snapped his fingers. \"Like that, either of\n us would give our lives to prevent man from completely abandoning the\n road to his destiny.\"", "\"... and he said all those things about man's conquest of space. And\n the dream of the stars which man has held so long. And then the fact", "Thus, Si was vaguely aware, it had always been down through the\n centuries since the Phoenecian sailor, back from his year-long trip to", "\"You must realize, my dear Lofting, that our Si Pond is nothing more\n than a latter-day sailor, with many of the problems and view-points,", "\"Well,\" Si said modestly, \"two of my runs were only to the Moon.\"", "that you were the last of the space pilots. The last man in the whole\n world trained to pilot a space craft. And here you were, retiring.\"", "Si, carrying his glass, moved over to the stool next to her. \"Call me\n Si,\" he said. \"Everybody calls me Si.\"", "The auto-elevator murmured politely, \"Yes, sir, the Kudos Room.\"\nAt the door to the famous rendezvous of the swankiest set, Si paused a", "Si took his time. Not that he really needed it. It was by far the most\n swank suite he had ever seen. One wall was a window of whatever size", "He turned back to his drink and noticed, for the first time, the girl\n who occupied the stool two down from him. Si Pond blinked. He blinked\n and then swallowed.", "conning tower of his space craft. He sipped at the drink, finding it up\n to his highest expectations, and then swiveled slightly on his stool to\n take a look at the others present." ] ]
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[ "What effects do the Green Flame rocks have?\n", "Why is Grannie Annie so concerned about the Green Flame’s whereabouts?", "What makes Grannie Annie's writing remarkable?", "Why is Billy so drawn to Grannie Annie? ", "What is Grannie Annie referring to when she says \"the I.P men aren't strong enough?\" ", "What is true about Doctor Universe?", "Why are people after Grannie Annie? ", "How will the story likely continue?" ]
[ [ "It makes people lethargic and easily manipulated.\n", "They spread radioactivity to people and make them ill. ", "They influence people to take power over other people. ", "They are electromagnetic and shock people. " ], [ "She wants to finish writing her story about them and needs to see them again.", "She believes that Doctor Universe is using to for his show to manipulate people.", "The current political climate is restless, and if used Green Flames could lead to a disaster.", "She wants it for herself and to continue researching the effects of Green Flame." ], [ "She isn't a writer of any notararitey. ", "She is an esteemed actor on top of being a writer. ", "She writes intense science fiction. ", "Her science fiction stories are typical, but she visits the locations she writes about and does so authentically. " ], [ "She knows about the Green Flame and Billy wants to know more about them. ", "Her writing wows him. ", "She's a famous author. He's naturally drawn to that fame. ", "She's an eccentric adventurer at heart, and compelling. " ], [ "She doesn't feel that the I.P men are serving well enough. ", "Just that - that the local law enforcement should be stronger. ", "She knows that as the politcal climate worsens, the I.P won't be able to keep up with the chaos. ", "The I.P men weren't quick enough to protect Billy and her from the attack. " ], [ "His audience reacts so well to him because much of the population is under the influence of Green Flame. ", "He knows about the whereabouts of Green Flame and is hiding it from Grannie Annie. ", "There is nothing of note to him. He is just a popular TV personaility. ", "He is using Green Flame himsel to influence his audience and force them to watch. He is the one who stole it. " ], [ "She entered the Spacemen's Club, which she was not allowed to do as a woman. ", "She was on Doctor Universe's show. ", "She knows too much about the Green Flames and they want to prevent her from obtaining it. ", "As a prolific author who travel a lot, she's made a lot of enemies. " ], [ "The group will continue to search for a way to get to the Green Flames. ", "The Green Flames will make Grannie Annie lose her drive to obtain them. ", "Grannie Annie will leave the storage of Green Flame behind, since she can’t get through the glass.", "arn will betray the duo and take the lot for himself." ] ]
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[ [ "Flame rock, they produce in the creature's brain a certain lassitude\n and lack of energy. As the period of exposure increases, this condition\n develops into a sense of impotence and a desire for leadership or", "\"And you can lay it all to the Green Flames. It seems incredible that a\n single shipload of the ore could effect such a wide ranged area, but in", "guards here. The mechanism is entirely self-operating. Let's see if the\n Green Flames are more accessible.\"", "\"It's not a new kind of anything. The Green Flame is a radio-active\n rock once found on Mercury. The\nAlpha", "travels into the Varsoom district he had come upon the wreckage of\n an old space ship. The hold of that space ship was packed with Green\n Flames!\"", "Grannie nodded. \"Some kind of a broadcasting unit. The Green Flames in\n the lower hold are probably exposed to a\ntholpane\nplate and their\n radiations stepped up by an electro-phosicalic process.\"", "guidance. Occasionally, as with the weak-willed, there is a spirit of\n intolerance. The Green Flames might be said to be an inorganic opiate,", "\"Green Flames, eh?\" he repeated slowly. \"Well yes, I suppose I could\n find that space ship again. That is, if I wanted to.\"", "The old woman paused. \"Did you ever hear of the Green Flames?\" she\n asked abruptly.\n\n\n I shook my head. \"Some new kind of ...\"", "purple flame shot outward. A horrible soul-chilling scream rent the\n air. A moment later something huge and heavy scrabbled across the\n ground and shot aloft.", "the lost space ship. Our job is to find that ore and destroy it. You\n see, I'm positive the Green Flames have never been removed from the\n ship.\"", "On the mirror behind the bar a small circle with radiating cracks\n appeared. On the booth wall a scant inch above Grannie's head the\n fresco seemed to melt away suddenly.\n\n\n A heat ray!", "\"The archives tell us that one of the first acts of the overthrowing\n government was to cast out all Green Flames, two of which Vennox had", "\"When any form of life is exposed to these\nGamma\nrays from the Green", "\"So everything, Billy-boy. Do you realize what such a thing would mean\n if it were true? Green Flames were supposedly destroyed on all planets", "From the tent opposite a gaunt figure clad in a familiar dress\n appeared. Grannie gave a single warning:\n\n\n \"Stand still!\"", "Outside a whisper-worm hissed softly. I got up and strode out of my\n tent. For some time I stood there, lost in thought. Could I believe", "\"You'll never do it that way,\" Grannie said. \"Nothing short of an\n atomic blast will shatter that wall. It explains why there are no", "The Venusians paddled with extreme care. Had one of them dipped his\n hand into one of those yellow streaks, he would have been devoured in\n a matter of seconds.", "sat on an upraised dais. That is to say, eight of them sat. The\n Mercurian, a huge lump of granite-like flesh, sprawled there, palpably" ], [ "If it had been anyone but Grannie Annie there before me, I would\n have called her a fool. And then all at once I got an odd feeling of\n approaching danger.", "Grannie Annie came to the point abruptly. When she had explained the\n object of our trip, the prospector became thoughtful.", "Grannie Annie fired with deliberate speed.\nI stood frozen as the diminuendo of its wild cries echoed back to me.", "Grannie Annie leaped to her feet, grasped my arm and raced for the\n door. Outside a driverless hydrocar stood with idling motors. The old", "\"Up we go, Billy-boy.\" Heat gun in readiness, Grannie Annie began to\n climb slowly.\n\n\n The silence remained absolute. We reached the door and pulled it open.\n There was no sign of life.", "Grannie nodded. \"Some kind of a broadcasting unit. The Green Flames in\n the lower hold are probably exposed to a\ntholpane\nplate and their\n radiations stepped up by an electro-phosicalic process.\"", "\"That it was sent by our enemy, the same enemy that shot at us in the\n cafe in Swamp City. Exactly.\" Grannie Annie halted at the door of her", "Grannie Annie came out from behind the box office then. She took my arm\n and led me around a corner and through a doorway under a sign that read", "The old woman paused. \"Did you ever hear of the Green Flames?\" she\n asked abruptly.\n\n\n I shook my head. \"Some new kind of ...\"", "Grannie Annie lit a cigarette and flipped the match to the floor.", "From the left wing Grannie Annie appeared. She bowed and took her place\n on the dais.", "\"What do you mean?\" Grannie paused in the act of rolling herself a\n cigarette. \"You know where it is, don't you?\"", "It was around the camp fire that night that Grannie took me into her\n confidence for the first time since we had left Swamp City.", "In the grille an equally astonished waiter served us—me a lime rickey\n and Grannie Annie her usual whisky sour—I waited until she had tossed\n the drink off at a gulp before I set off a chain of questions:", "guards here. The mechanism is entirely self-operating. Let's see if the\n Green Flames are more accessible.\"", "But to me she was still Grannie Annie, as old-fashioned as last year's\n hat, as modern as an atomic motor. She had probably written more drivel\n in the name of science fiction than anyone alive.", "futility of the venture. Only the pleadings of Grannie Annie kept me\n from turning back. On the morrow I realized the truth in her warning,", "\"Green Flames, eh?\" he repeated slowly. \"Well yes, I suppose I could\n find that space ship again. That is, if I wanted to.\"", "I barged across the lounge and seized her hand. \"Grannie Annie! I\n haven't seen you in two years.\"", "From the tent opposite a gaunt figure clad in a familiar dress\n appeared. Grannie gave a single warning:\n\n\n \"Stand still!\"" ], [ "But to me she was still Grannie Annie, as old-fashioned as last year's\n hat, as modern as an atomic motor. She had probably written more drivel\n in the name of science fiction than anyone alive.", "If it had been anyone but Grannie Annie there before me, I would\n have called her a fool. And then all at once I got an odd feeling of\n approaching danger.", "Grannie Annie fired with deliberate speed.\nI stood frozen as the diminuendo of its wild cries echoed back to me.", "Grannie Annie came out from behind the box office then. She took my arm\n and led me around a corner and through a doorway under a sign that read", "Grannie Annie came to the point abruptly. When she had explained the\n object of our trip, the prospector became thoughtful.", "From the left wing Grannie Annie appeared. She bowed and took her place\n on the dais.", "Grannie Annie leaped to her feet, grasped my arm and raced for the\n door. Outside a driverless hydrocar stood with idling motors. The old", "I barged across the lounge and seized her hand. \"Grannie Annie! I\n haven't seen you in two years.\"", "In the grille an equally astonished waiter served us—me a lime rickey\n and Grannie Annie her usual whisky sour—I waited until she had tossed\n the drink off at a gulp before I set off a chain of questions:", "Grannie Annie lit a cigarette and flipped the match to the floor.", "Grannie's incredible story? Or was this another of her fantastic plots\n which she had skilfully blended into a novel?", "\"That it was sent by our enemy, the same enemy that shot at us in the\n cafe in Swamp City. Exactly.\" Grannie Annie halted at the door of her", "One thing you had to admit about her books. They may have been dime\n novels, but they weren't synthetic. If Annabella C. Flowers wrote a", "It grew a little tiresome after a while and I wondered why Grannie had\n brought me here. And then I began to notice things.", "futility of the venture. Only the pleadings of Grannie Annie kept me\n from turning back. On the morrow I realized the truth in her warning,", "\"Up we go, Billy-boy.\" Heat gun in readiness, Grannie Annie began to\n climb slowly.\n\n\n The silence remained absolute. We reached the door and pulled it open.\n There was no sign of life.", "Grannie nodded. \"Yes,\" she said. \"That's exactly what I think.\"", "Doctor Universe\nBy CARL JACOBI\nGrannie Annie, who wrote science fiction\n\n under the nom de plume of Annabella C. Flowers,\n\n had stumbled onto a murderous plot more", "Before I realized it, I was following her through the lounge and out to\n the jetty front. Grannie Annie hailed a hydrocar. Five minutes later we\n drew up before the big doors of the\nSatellite\n.", "I followed the bellhop down the long corridor that led to the main\n lounge. At the threshold I jerked to a halt and stared incredulously.\n\n\n Grannie Annie!" ], [ "\"Up we go, Billy-boy.\" Heat gun in readiness, Grannie Annie began to\n climb slowly.\n\n\n The silence remained absolute. We reached the door and pulled it open.\n There was no sign of life.", "If it had been anyone but Grannie Annie there before me, I would\n have called her a fool. And then all at once I got an odd feeling of\n approaching danger.", "But to me she was still Grannie Annie, as old-fashioned as last year's\n hat, as modern as an atomic motor. She had probably written more drivel\n in the name of science fiction than anyone alive.", "Grannie Annie came out from behind the box office then. She took my arm\n and led me around a corner and through a doorway under a sign that read", "Grannie Annie came to the point abruptly. When she had explained the\n object of our trip, the prospector became thoughtful.", "I barged across the lounge and seized her hand. \"Grannie Annie! I\n haven't seen you in two years.\"", "Grannie Annie leaped to her feet, grasped my arm and raced for the\n door. Outside a driverless hydrocar stood with idling motors. The old", "Grannie Annie fired with deliberate speed.\nI stood frozen as the diminuendo of its wild cries echoed back to me.", "Before I realized it, I was following her through the lounge and out to\n the jetty front. Grannie Annie hailed a hydrocar. Five minutes later we\n drew up before the big doors of the\nSatellite\n.", "futility of the venture. Only the pleadings of Grannie Annie kept me\n from turning back. On the morrow I realized the truth in her warning,", "From the left wing Grannie Annie appeared. She bowed and took her place\n on the dais.", "It grew a little tiresome after a while and I wondered why Grannie had\n brought me here. And then I began to notice things.", "In the grille an equally astonished waiter served us—me a lime rickey\n and Grannie Annie her usual whisky sour—I waited until she had tossed\n the drink off at a gulp before I set off a chain of questions:", "Grannie nodded. \"Yes,\" she said. \"That's exactly what I think.\"", "Grannie gazed a long moment through binoculars. \"Billy-boy, take three\n Venusians and head across the knoll,\" she ordered. \"Ezra and I will", "\"That it was sent by our enemy, the same enemy that shot at us in the\n cafe in Swamp City. Exactly.\" Grannie Annie halted at the door of her", "Grannie Annie lit a cigarette and flipped the match to the floor.", "Grannie frowned in annoyance, but the prospector was adamant. He\n flipped a stud, twisted a dial and a moment later was leaning back in a\n chair, listening with avid interest.", "From the tent opposite a gaunt figure clad in a familiar dress\n appeared. Grannie gave a single warning:\n\n\n \"Stand still!\"", "At high noon by my Earth watch I sighted a low white structure on one\n of the distant islands. Moments later we made a landing at a rude\n jetty, and Grannie Annie was introducing me to Ezra Karn." ], [ "I nodded. \"As disgraceful an exhibition as I've ever seen. The I.P. men\n ought to clamp down.\"\n\n\n \"The I.P. men aren't strong enough.\"", "If it had been anyone but Grannie Annie there before me, I would\n have called her a fool. And then all at once I got an odd feeling of\n approaching danger.", "Grannie Annie came out from behind the box office then. She took my arm\n and led me around a corner and through a doorway under a sign that read", "Grannie Annie came to the point abruptly. When she had explained the\n object of our trip, the prospector became thoughtful.", "\"That it was sent by our enemy, the same enemy that shot at us in the\n cafe in Swamp City. Exactly.\" Grannie Annie halted at the door of her", "I barged across the lounge and seized her hand. \"Grannie Annie! I\n haven't seen you in two years.\"", "But to me she was still Grannie Annie, as old-fashioned as last year's\n hat, as modern as an atomic motor. She had probably written more drivel\n in the name of science fiction than anyone alive.", "\"You'll never do it that way,\" Grannie said. \"Nothing short of an\n atomic blast will shatter that wall. It explains why there are no", "\"Up we go, Billy-boy.\" Heat gun in readiness, Grannie Annie began to\n climb slowly.\n\n\n The silence remained absolute. We reached the door and pulled it open.\n There was no sign of life.", "Grannie Annie fired with deliberate speed.\nI stood frozen as the diminuendo of its wild cries echoed back to me.", "futility of the venture. Only the pleadings of Grannie Annie kept me\n from turning back. On the morrow I realized the truth in her warning,", "In the grille an equally astonished waiter served us—me a lime rickey\n and Grannie Annie her usual whisky sour—I waited until she had tossed\n the drink off at a gulp before I set off a chain of questions:", "Grannie Annie leaped to her feet, grasped my arm and raced for the\n door. Outside a driverless hydrocar stood with idling motors. The old", "\"What do you mean?\" Grannie paused in the act of rolling herself a\n cigarette. \"You know where it is, don't you?\"", "Before I realized it, I was following her through the lounge and out to\n the jetty front. Grannie Annie hailed a hydrocar. Five minutes later we\n drew up before the big doors of the\nSatellite\n.", "Grannie stamped her foot. \"It's maddening,\" she said. \"Here we are at\n the crux of the whole matter, and we're powerless to make a single\n move.\"", "I followed the bellhop down the long corridor that led to the main\n lounge. At the threshold I jerked to a halt and stared incredulously.\n\n\n Grannie Annie!", "Grannie nodded. \"Some kind of a broadcasting unit. The Green Flames in\n the lower hold are probably exposed to a\ntholpane\nplate and their\n radiations stepped up by an electro-phosicalic process.\"", "Moments later an official hydrocar roared up and a dozen I.P. men\n rushed out and scattered the crowd. But a few stragglers lingered to\n shout derisive epithets.", "From the left wing Grannie Annie appeared. She bowed and took her place\n on the dais." ], [ "\"The Doctor Universe program,\" he said. \"I ain't missed one in months.\n You gotta wait 'til I hear it.\"", "The audience in the\nSatellite\nseemed to have lost much of its\n original fervor. They applauded as before but they did so only at the\n signal of Doctor Universe. The spell created by the man was complete.", "cafes strove to stump the experts. With Doctor Universe offering\n bantering side play, the experts gave their answers. When they failed,\n or when the Truthicator flashed a red light, he announced the name of", "\"People of Swamp City,\" he said, bowing, \"permit me to introduce\n myself. I am Doctor Universe, and these are my nine experts.\"", "In front was a big sign. It read:\nONE NIGHT ONLY\n\n DOCTOR UNIVERSE AND HIS\n\n NINE GENIUSES", "Doctor Universe\nBy CARL JACOBI\nGrannie Annie, who wrote science fiction\n\n under the nom de plume of Annabella C. Flowers,\n\n had stumbled onto a murderous plot more", "I got my pipe out of my pocket, tamped Martian tobacco into the bowl\n and laughed heartily. \"The same old Flowers,\" I said. \"Tell me, who's\n your thief ... Doctor Universe?\"", "\"\nWho was the first Earthman to titter the sunward side of Mercury?\n\"\n\n\n Doctor Universe nodded and turned to Grannie Annie who had raised her\n hand. She said quietly:", "The Doctor's program began. The operator of the Earth visi twisted his\n dials and nodded. Blue light flickered on the pantascope panel to", "I grinned. \"All complete, I'll bet, with threats against the universe\n and beautiful Earth heroines dragged in by the hair.\"", "And so it went. Questions from Mars, from Earth, from Saturn flowed in\n the visi sets. Isolated miners on Jupiter, dancers in swank Plutonian", "isolated crime there. But viewed from the perspective Grannie had\n given me, everything dovetailed. The situation on Jupiter was swiftly\n coming to a head. Not only had the people on that planet demanded that", "\"Of course, I regarded Karn's story as a wild dream, but it made\n corking good story material. I wrote it into a novel, and a week after\n it was completed, the manuscript was stolen from my study back on\n Earth.\"", "\"An old prospector who lives out in the deep marsh on the outskirts of\n Varsoom country. To make a long story short, I got him talking about\n his adventures, and he told me plenty.\"", "It was the same show I had witnessed back in Swamp City. Once again I\n heard questions filter in from the far outposts of the System. Once", "\"That's right,\" Karn said. \"The Varsoom have a strange nervous reaction\n that's manifested by laughing. But just what it is that makes them\n laugh, I don't know.\"", "Outside a whisper-worm hissed softly. I got up and strode out of my\n tent. For some time I stood there, lost in thought. Could I believe", "sat on an upraised dais. That is to say, eight of them sat. The\n Mercurian, a huge lump of granite-like flesh, sprawled there, palpably", "The piano struck a chord in G, and the curtain went rattling up. On the\n stage four Earthmen, two Martians, two Venusians, and one Mercurian", "\"I see,\" I said as she lapsed into silence. \"And now you've come to the\n conclusion that the details of your story were true and that someone is\n attempting to put your plot into action.\"" ], [ "If it had been anyone but Grannie Annie there before me, I would\n have called her a fool. And then all at once I got an odd feeling of\n approaching danger.", "Grannie Annie came to the point abruptly. When she had explained the\n object of our trip, the prospector became thoughtful.", "\"That it was sent by our enemy, the same enemy that shot at us in the\n cafe in Swamp City. Exactly.\" Grannie Annie halted at the door of her", "Grannie Annie came out from behind the box office then. She took my arm\n and led me around a corner and through a doorway under a sign that read", "Grannie Annie leaped to her feet, grasped my arm and raced for the\n door. Outside a driverless hydrocar stood with idling motors. The old", "\"Up we go, Billy-boy.\" Heat gun in readiness, Grannie Annie began to\n climb slowly.\n\n\n The silence remained absolute. We reached the door and pulled it open.\n There was no sign of life.", "But to me she was still Grannie Annie, as old-fashioned as last year's\n hat, as modern as an atomic motor. She had probably written more drivel\n in the name of science fiction than anyone alive.", "Grannie Annie fired with deliberate speed.\nI stood frozen as the diminuendo of its wild cries echoed back to me.", "From the left wing Grannie Annie appeared. She bowed and took her place\n on the dais.", "I barged across the lounge and seized her hand. \"Grannie Annie! I\n haven't seen you in two years.\"", "futility of the venture. Only the pleadings of Grannie Annie kept me\n from turning back. On the morrow I realized the truth in her warning,", "Before I realized it, I was following her through the lounge and out to\n the jetty front. Grannie Annie hailed a hydrocar. Five minutes later we\n drew up before the big doors of the\nSatellite\n.", "In the grille an equally astonished waiter served us—me a lime rickey\n and Grannie Annie her usual whisky sour—I waited until she had tossed\n the drink off at a gulp before I set off a chain of questions:", "I followed the bellhop down the long corridor that led to the main\n lounge. At the threshold I jerked to a halt and stared incredulously.\n\n\n Grannie Annie!", "From the tent opposite a gaunt figure clad in a familiar dress\n appeared. Grannie gave a single warning:\n\n\n \"Stand still!\"", "\"What do you mean?\" Grannie paused in the act of rolling herself a\n cigarette. \"You know where it is, don't you?\"", "Grannie Annie lit a cigarette and flipped the match to the floor.", "isolated crime there. But viewed from the perspective Grannie had\n given me, everything dovetailed. The situation on Jupiter was swiftly\n coming to a head. Not only had the people on that planet demanded that", "\"Hunter-bird,\" Grannie said calmly. \"A form of avian life found here\n in the swamp. Harmless in its wild state, but when captured, it can be", "Grannie nodded. \"Yes,\" she said. \"That's exactly what I think.\"" ], [ "\"I see,\" I said as she lapsed into silence. \"And now you've come to the\n conclusion that the details of your story were true and that someone is\n attempting to put your plot into action.\"", "\"What do you mean?\"\nFor a moment the old lady sat there in silence; then she leaned back,\n closed her eyes, and I knew there was a story coming.", "she began. \"When it was finished I had planned to take a six months'\n vacation, but those fool publishers of mine insisted I do a sequel.", "\"Up we go, Billy-boy.\" Heat gun in readiness, Grannie Annie began to\n climb slowly.\n\n\n The silence remained absolute. We reached the door and pulled it open.\n There was no sign of life.", "From the tent opposite a gaunt figure clad in a familiar dress\n appeared. Grannie gave a single warning:\n\n\n \"Stand still!\"", "\"You'll never do it that way,\" Grannie said. \"Nothing short of an\n atomic blast will shatter that wall. It explains why there are no", "\"Of course, I regarded Karn's story as a wild dream, but it made\n corking good story material. I wrote it into a novel, and a week after\n it was completed, the manuscript was stolen from my study back on\n Earth.\"", "steadily. And the news broadcast I had heard over the portable visi\n just before retiring still lingered in my mind. To a casual observer\n that broadcast would have meant little, a slight rebellion here, an", "If it had been anyone but Grannie Annie there before me, I would\n have called her a fool. And then all at once I got an odd feeling of\n approaching danger.", "The thing in the darkness turned like a cam on a rod and drove at us\n again. This time the old woman's heat gun clicked, and a tracery of", "isolated crime there. But viewed from the perspective Grannie had\n given me, everything dovetailed. The situation on Jupiter was swiftly\n coming to a head. Not only had the people on that planet demanded that", "tent and faced me with earnest eyes. \"Billy-boy, our every move is\n being watched. From now on it's the survival of the fittest.\"", "the players in this shindig. As soon as the show is over, we'll go\n somewhere and talk.\" She minced lightly down the aisle, climbed the\n stage steps and disappeared in the wings.", "But the public loved it. They ate up her stories, and they clamored for\n more. Her annual income totaled into six figures, and her publishers\n sat back and massaged their digits, watching their earnings mount.", "Grannie's incredible story? Or was this another of her fantastic plots\n which she had skilfully blended into a novel?", "Outside a whisper-worm hissed softly. I got up and strode out of my\n tent. For some time I stood there, lost in thought. Could I believe", "When the last question had been answered I joined the exit-moving\n crowd. It was outside under the street marquee that a strange incident\n occurred.", "The old woman paused. \"Did you ever hear of the Green Flames?\" she\n asked abruptly.\n\n\n I shook my head. \"Some new kind of ...\"", "\"Glad to meet you,\" he said, shaking my hand. \"Any friend of Miss\n Flowers is a friend of mine.\" He ushered us down the catwalk into his\n hut.", "\"Green Flames, eh?\" he repeated slowly. \"Well yes, I suppose I could\n find that space ship again. That is, if I wanted to.\"" ] ]
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[ "What does the E.P. Locator detect?", "Why was each inhabitant of the moon-town only referred to as their specific species rather than a distinct name?", "Which fruit was NOT allowed to be tasted by the crew while visiting the moon-town?", "What was thought to be used as an indication to settle the confusion between the crew and the two humans in moon-town?", "Why was the cave the only place that was not visited?", "What was an indicator that Adam, or Ha-Adamah, was only playing a part while communicating with the crew?", "Why was the moon-town comically referred to as paradise by the priest?", "Why was the Old Serpent satisfied that the crew would be returning to try and take their paradise?", "Why had the owners of Little Probe obtained the E.P. Locator at such a discounted rate? ", "What was determined to have created the bright light in the moon-town?" ]
[ [ "Level of Human Activity", "Level of Probing", "Level of Spinal Fluid", "Level of Perception" ], [ "They were all distinct by their light, and only needed to be referred to as their species. ", "The population was much too large to name each creature. ", "The humans of moon-town felt no need to waste time in naming each living creature as they died off too quickly.", "There was only one of each, therefore, they were called by their species. " ], [ "Apples", "Oranges", "Pomegranate ", "Grapes" ], [ "An inquisition about knowledge", "A game of checkers", "A contest of preternatural intellect", "A physical test " ], [ "The cave was only a reflective illusion from the bright light. ", "The crew ran out of time but planned to examine it upon their next arrival", "Adam, or Ha-Adamah, told the crew that it was much to dangerous as there were evil creatures living inside. ", "The serpent lives there and the crew was told that he was cranky." ], [ "His eruption of laughter once the crew had left. ", "He told the Old Serpent that he needed to write him new lines. ", "His past involvement with show business.", "He recalled his true name after the crew had left. " ], [ "The woman did not speak the entire time they were there. ", "There was only one man, so less competition for the attention of the woman.", "The unlimited supply of fresh fruit was perfect for weight loss. ", "There were less occupants, so less idiots to deal with. " ], [ "He was happy to have new faces and needed the influx population to breed their new world. ", "He was hopeful for a portion of the sale money. ", "They needed to acquire their equipment for forming their new world. ", "They were hopeful for settlers as they needed someone to help them fertilize the land to keep the fruits plentiful. " ], [ "The readings were unclear as it had struggled with detecting E.P on worms. ", "The designer had no longer used it as it had not detected E.P. on himself. ", "It was a faulty machine and often shut off without notice. ", "It often produced an orange light meaning it was unsure of the results. " ], [ "The shining paint that was applied to the bodies of Adam and Eve. ", "Artificial lighting that helped the fruits to produce more. ", "The lights from the ship that were not turned off. ", "Constant moon-light that failed to dim in order to help the fruits grow" ] ]
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[ [ "And there was no denying that the Extraordinary Perception Locator (or\n Eppel) was a contrary machine. On Earth it had read\nPositive", "The E. P. Locator had been designed by Glaser. But when the Locator\n had refused to read\nPositive", "There was one more test to run, one very tricky and difficult of\n analysis, that with the Extraordinary Perception Locator. This was", "individual, though this could not be certain) and got very definite\n action. Eppel was busy. The machine had a touch of the ham in it, and\n assumed an air of importance when it ran these tests.", "So it was with mixed expectations that Steiner locked onto the area\n and got a flick. He then narrowed to a smaller area (apparently one", "\"There's no town,\" said Steiner. \"Not a building. Yet we're on the\n track of the minds. There's nothing but a meadow and some boscage, a", "nothing for several hours as they hovered high over the rotation. Then\n it came—clearly and definitely, but from quite a small location only.", "\"Let's lock on this one and finish the scan. Then we can do the rest of\n the world to make sure we've missed nothing,\" said Stark.", "\"Scan the remainder of the world, Steiner,\" said Stark, \"and the rest\n of us will get some sleep. If you find no other spot then we will go", "Finally it signaled the result, the most exasperating result it ever\n produces: the single orange light. It was the equivalent of the shrug\n of the shoulders in a man. They called it the \"You tell\nme\nlight.\"", "Positive\non ninety per cent of\n the acknowledged superior minds of the Earth. In space it had been a\n sound guide to the unusual intelligences encountered. Yet on Suzuki-Mi", "It was for this reason that Glaser used that model no more, but built\n others more amenable. And it was for this reason also that the owners\n of Little Probe had acquired the original machine so cheaply.", "\"Not a building, not two sticks or stones placed together. That looks\n like an Earth-type sheep there. And that looks like an Earth-lion,", "The machine replied, with such warmth that its relays chattered, that\n Glaser did\nnot\nhave extraordinary perception; he had only ordinary\n perception to an extraordinary degree. There is a\ndifference\n, the\n machine insisted.", "Dawn did not come to the moon-town. The Little Probe hovered stationary\n in the light and the moon-town came up under the dawn. Then the Probe\n went down to visit whatever was there.", "Positive\nwhen turned on the inventor himself,\n bad blood developed between machine and man. Glaser knew that he had\n extraordinary perception. He was a much honored man in his field. He", "designed simply to locate a source of superior thought. But this might\n be so varied or so unfamiliar that often both the machine and the\n designer of it were puzzled as to how to read the results.", "\"I don't know, but they're right in the middle of it. Land here. We'll\n go to meet them at once. Timidity has never been an efficacious tool\n with us.\"", "\"I know it, Eve. The lion is a very important prop. Maybe one of the\n crackpot settlers will bring a new lion.\"", "\"No. The rest of the world may be dangerous. There must be a reason\n that thought is in one spot only. If we find no others then we will go\n down boldly and visit this.\"" ], [ "Dawn did not come to the moon-town. The Little Probe hovered stationary\n in the light and the moon-town came up under the dawn. Then the Probe\n went down to visit whatever was there.", "\"The woman is named Hawwah,\" said the man. \"The sheep is named sheep,\n the lion is named lion, the horse is named horse and the hoolock is\n named hoolock.\"", "\"You are not anything till I name you. But I will name you and then\n you can be. You are named Captain. He is named Priest. He is named\n Engineer. He is named Flunky.\"", "\"Not a building, not two sticks or stones placed together. That looks\n like an Earth-type sheep there. And that looks like an Earth-lion,", "\"No. We are the people. There are no people but two. How could there be\n other people?\"", "\"There's no town,\" said Steiner. \"Not a building. Yet we're on the\n track of the minds. There's nothing but a meadow and some boscage, a", "It was a world with everything, and it seemed to have only two\n inhabitants. They went everywhere except into the big cave.", "\"How could there be more than one of anything?\"\n\n\n The captain was a little puzzled by this, but he went on doggedly:\n \"Ha-Adamah, what do you think that we are? Are we not people?\"", "life traces on that little moon, but it would be a lively place. So\n they skipped several steps in the procedure.", "\"Father Briton from Philadelphia,\" he said, \"on detached service. And\n you, my good man, what is your handle, your monicker, your tag?\"\n\n\n \"Ha-Adamah,\" said the man.", "They learned no more of the real nature of the sphere in their time\n there. Yet all but one of them were convinced of the reality when they\n left. And they talked of it as they took off.", "\"I have only one tongue; but it is given to us to be understood by all;\n by the eagle, by the squirrel, by the ass, by the English.\"", "\"A crowd would laugh if told of it,\" said Stark, \"but not many would\n laugh if they had actually seen the place, or them. I am not a gullible", "I'm almost afraid to say. And those two ... why, they could well be\n Earth-people. But with a difference. Where is that bright light coming\n from?\"", "Positive\non ninety per cent of\n the acknowledged superior minds of the Earth. In space it had been a\n sound guide to the unusual intelligences encountered. Yet on Suzuki-Mi", "And there was no denying that the Extraordinary Perception Locator (or\n Eppel) was a contrary machine. On Earth it had read\nPositive", "Well, they were people. And one could only wish that all people were\n like them. There was a man and a woman, and they were clothed either\n in very bright garments or in no garments at all, but only in a very\n bright light.", "neighbors. A completely planned globular settlement in a near arm of\n our own galaxy. Low taxes and liberal credit. Financing our specialty—\"", "\"Limited,\" said Steiner, \"as though within a pale. As though there were\n but one city, if that is its form. Shall we follow the rest of the", "\"Human,\" said Steiner. \"It may even be that they are a little more than\n human. I don't understand that light that surrounds them. And they seem\n to be clothed, as it were, in dignity.\"" ], [ "\"All things are possible.\"\n\n\n And it was then that Ha-Adamah, the shining man, gave a wild cry: \"No,\n no. Do not approach it. It is not allowed to eat of that one!\"", "Dawn did not come to the moon-town. The Little Probe hovered stationary\n in the light and the moon-town came up under the dawn. Then the Probe\n went down to visit whatever was there.", "\"Certainly. Eat. It is the finest fruit in the garden.\"\n\"Well, the analogy breaks down there,\" said Stark. \"I was almost", "\"And everything grows here,\" added Steiner. \"Those are Earth-fruits and", "I never saw finer. I've tasted the grapes and plums and pears. The figs\n and dates are superb, the quince is as flavorsome as a quince can be,", "\"I won't be the first to eat one. You eat.\"\n\n\n \"Ask him first. You ask him.\"\n\n\n \"Ha-Adamah, is it allowed to eat the apples?\"", "the cherries are excellent. And I never did taste such oranges. But I\n haven't yet tried the—\" and he stopped.", "\"Ah—I see.\"\nBut the crew all drank of the fountain to be sociable. It was water,\n but water that excelled, cool and with all its original bubbles like\n the first water ever made.", "They learned no more of the real nature of the sphere in their time\n there. Yet all but one of them were convinced of the reality when they\n left. And they talked of it as they took off.", "\"It does. The name of the fruit is not mentioned in Genesis. In Hebrew\n exegesis, however, the pomegranate is usually indicated.\"", "\"If you're thinking what I'm afraid to think,\" said Gilbert, \"then it\n will be the test at least: whether we're having a pleasant dream or\n whether this is reality. Go ahead and eat one.\"", "life traces on that little moon, but it would be a lively place. So\n they skipped several steps in the procedure.", "\"Once more, Father,\" said Stark, \"you should be the authority; but does\n not the idea that it was the apple that was forbidden go back only to a\n medieval painting?\"", "\"Pick from the trees,\" said Ha-Adamah, \"and then it may be that you\n will want to sleep on the grass. Being not of human nature (which does", "It was a world with everything, and it seemed to have only two\n inhabitants. They went everywhere except into the big cave.", "\"Not a building, not two sticks or stones placed together. That looks\n like an Earth-type sheep there. And that looks like an Earth-lion,", "And there was no denying that the Extraordinary Perception Locator (or\n Eppel) was a contrary machine. On Earth it had read\nPositive", "\"There's no town,\" said Steiner. \"Not a building. Yet we're on the\n track of the minds. There's nothing but a meadow and some boscage, a", "\"It'll take them fourteen days to get back with the settlers. We'll\n have time to overhaul the blasters. We haven't had any well-equipped", "\"And the damnest thing about it,\" muttered Langweilig, \"is, how are you\n going to prove him wrong? But it does give you a small feeling.\"\n\n\n \"Can we have something to eat?\" asked the Captain." ], [ "Dawn did not come to the moon-town. The Little Probe hovered stationary\n in the light and the moon-town came up under the dawn. Then the Probe\n went down to visit whatever was there.", "I'm almost afraid to say. And those two ... why, they could well be\n Earth-people. But with a difference. Where is that bright light coming\n from?\"", "\"It'll take them fourteen days to get back with the settlers. We'll\n have time to overhaul the blasters. We haven't had any well-equipped", "They learned no more of the real nature of the sphere in their time\n there. Yet all but one of them were convinced of the reality when they\n left. And they talked of it as they took off.", "Positive\non ninety per cent of\n the acknowledged superior minds of the Earth. In space it had been a\n sound guide to the unusual intelligences encountered. Yet on Suzuki-Mi", "And there was no denying that the Extraordinary Perception Locator (or\n Eppel) was a contrary machine. On Earth it had read\nPositive", "\"No. We are the people. There are no people but two. How could there be\n other people?\"", "Finally it signaled the result, the most exasperating result it ever\n produces: the single orange light. It was the equivalent of the shrug\n of the shoulders in a man. They called it the \"You tell\nme\nlight.\"", "life traces on that little moon, but it would be a lively place. So\n they skipped several steps in the procedure.", "\"Human,\" said Steiner. \"It may even be that they are a little more than\n human. I don't understand that light that surrounds them. And they seem\n to be clothed, as it were, in dignity.\"", "\"Ah—I see.\"\nBut the crew all drank of the fountain to be sociable. It was water,\n but water that excelled, cool and with all its original bubbles like\n the first water ever made.", "\"I know it, Eve. The lion is a very important prop. Maybe one of the\n crackpot settlers will bring a new lion.\"", "\"I don't know, but they're right in the middle of it. Land here. We'll\n go to meet them at once. Timidity has never been an efficacious tool\n with us.\"", "\"How could there be more than one of anything?\"\n\n\n The captain was a little puzzled by this, but he went on doggedly:\n \"Ha-Adamah, what do you think that we are? Are we not people?\"", "are garbed in light and innocence, and they have the happiness that\n we have been seeking for centuries. It would be a crime if anyone\n disturbed that happiness.\"", "\"Not a building, not two sticks or stones placed together. That looks\n like an Earth-type sheep there. And that looks like an Earth-lion,", "nothing for several hours as they hovered high over the rotation. Then\n it came—clearly and definitely, but from quite a small location only.", "\"And the damnest thing about it,\" muttered Langweilig, \"is, how are you\n going to prove him wrong? But it does give you a small feeling.\"\n\n\n \"Can we have something to eat?\" asked the Captain.", "individual, though this could not be certain) and got very definite\n action. Eppel was busy. The machine had a touch of the ham in it, and\n assumed an air of importance when it ran these tests.", "\"There's no town,\" said Steiner. \"Not a building. Yet we're on the\n track of the minds. There's nothing but a meadow and some boscage, a" ], [ "It was a world with everything, and it seemed to have only two\n inhabitants. They went everywhere except into the big cave.", "\"No. The rest of the world may be dangerous. There must be a reason\n that thought is in one spot only. If we find no others then we will go\n down boldly and visit this.\"", "They wandered about the place, but they were uneasy. There were the\n animals. The lion and lioness were enough to make one cautious, though", "\"You don't want to visit any of the other areas first? Somewhere away\n from the thoughtful creature?\"", "\"No. It would be no contest. I would not like to humble you.\"\nThey were there for three days. They were delighted with the place.", "He looked proudly around at the great cave with its mountains and tiers\n of materials, heavy machinery of all sorts, titanic crates of foodstuff", "\"The great serpent lives there. I would not disturb him. He has long\n been cranky because plans he had for us did not materialize. But we", "Down in the great cave that Old Serpent, a two-legged one among whose\n names were \"Snake-Oil Sam,\" spoke to his underlings:", "\"A crowd would laugh if told of it,\" said Stark, \"but not many would\n laugh if they had actually seen the place, or them. I am not a gullible", "\"There's no town,\" said Steiner. \"Not a building. Yet we're on the\n track of the minds. There's nothing but a meadow and some boscage, a", "Dawn did not come to the moon-town. The Little Probe hovered stationary\n in the light and the moon-town came up under the dawn. Then the Probe\n went down to visit whatever was there.", "They learned no more of the real nature of the sphere in their time\n there. Yet all but one of them were convinced of the reality when they\n left. And they talked of it as they took off.", "It is indeed an unspoiled Paradise; and it would be a crime calling to\n the wide heavens for vengeance for anyone to smirch in any way that\n perfection.", "\"All things are possible.\"\n\n\n And it was then that Ha-Adamah, the shining man, gave a wild cry: \"No,\n no. Do not approach it. It is not allowed to eat of that one!\"", "\"No. We are the people. There are no people but two. How could there be\n other people?\"", "\"To die I do not understand. I am taught that it is a property of\n fallen nature to die, and that does not pertain to me or mine.\"\n\n\n \"And are you completely happy here?\"", "\"If there are only two people here,\" said Casper Craig, \"then it may be\n that the rest of the world is not dangerous at all. It looked fertile", "vainly through all the ages. I am taught that sickness and ageing and\n even death could come if this happiness were ever lost. I am taught\n that on at least one other unfortunate world it has actually been lost.\"", "\"They looked at the priest thoughtfully.\n\n\n \"But it was Paradise in one way,\" said Steiner at last.\n\n\n \"How?\"", "are garbed in light and innocence, and they have the happiness that\n we have been seeking for centuries. It would be a crime if anyone\n disturbed that happiness.\"" ], [ "\"Father Briton from Philadelphia,\" he said, \"on detached service. And\n you, my good man, what is your handle, your monicker, your tag?\"\n\n\n \"Ha-Adamah,\" said the man.", "\"How could there be more than one of anything?\"\n\n\n The captain was a little puzzled by this, but he went on doggedly:\n \"Ha-Adamah, what do you think that we are? Are we not people?\"", "\"I'm not clowning, Captain. How about it, Adam? I'll give you choice of\n colors and first move.\"\n\n\n \"No. It would be no contest. I have a preternatural intellect.\"", "beginning to believe in the thing. But if it isn't that, then what.\n Father Briton, you are the linguist, but in Hebrew does not Ha-Adamah\n and Hawwah mean—?\"", "\"All things are possible.\"\n\n\n And it was then that Ha-Adamah, the shining man, gave a wild cry: \"No,\n no. Do not approach it. It is not allowed to eat of that one!\"", "\"I thought so. Question the man further, Father. This is too\n incredible.\"\n\n\n \"It is a little odd. Adam, old man, how long have you been here?\"", "\"Pick from the trees,\" said Ha-Adamah, \"and then it may be that you\n will want to sleep on the grass. Being not of human nature (which does", "\"Yes, there is a question that will settle it. Adam, old man, how about\n a game of checkers?\"\n\n\n \"This is hardly the time for clowning,\" said Stark.", "\"I won't be the first to eat one. You eat.\"\n\n\n \"Ask him first. You ask him.\"\n\n\n \"Ha-Adamah, is it allowed to eat the apples?\"", "\"I think you'd better write me some new lines,\" said Adam. \"I feel like\n a goof saying those same ones to each bunch.\"", "\"Ah—I see.\"\nBut the crew all drank of the fountain to be sociable. It was water,\n but water that excelled, cool and with all its original bubbles like\n the first water ever made.", "\"You are not anything till I name you. But I will name you and then\n you can be. You are named Captain. He is named Priest. He is named\n Engineer. He is named Flunky.\"", "center on Earth. I've played against, and beaten, machines. But I\n never played a preternatural mind. Let's just set up the board, Adam,\n and have a go at it.\"", "\"I know it, Eve. The lion is a very important prop. Maybe one of the\n crackpot settlers will bring a new lion.\"", "\"What is there, Adam?\" asked Captain Stark.", "They learned no more of the real nature of the sphere in their time\n there. Yet all but one of them were convinced of the reality when they\n left. And they talked of it as they took off.", "\"The woman is named Hawwah,\" said the man. \"The sheep is named sheep,\n the lion is named lion, the horse is named horse and the hoolock is\n named hoolock.\"", "\"If I have a preternatural intellect I wouldn't be afraid of a game of\n checkers with anyone. Yet there was an unusual mind there somewhere; it\n was just that he chose not to make our acquaintance personally.\"", "\"Talk to them again,\" said Stark. \"You're the linguist.\"\n\n\n \"That isn't necessary here, Captain. Talk to them yourself.\"", "The machine replied, with such warmth that its relays chattered, that\n Glaser did\nnot\nhave extraordinary perception; he had only ordinary\n perception to an extraordinary degree. There is a\ndifference\n, the\n machine insisted." ], [ "\"They looked at the priest thoughtfully.\n\n\n \"But it was Paradise in one way,\" said Steiner at last.\n\n\n \"How?\"", "It is indeed an unspoiled Paradise; and it would be a crime calling to\n the wide heavens for vengeance for anyone to smirch in any way that\n perfection.", "\"I too am convinced,\" said Steiner. \"It is Paradise itself, where the\n lion lies down with the lamb, and where the serpent has not prevailed.", "Dawn did not come to the moon-town. The Little Probe hovered stationary\n in the light and the moon-town came up under the dawn. Then the Probe\n went down to visit whatever was there.", "\"This is still a perfect come-on here. There is something in human\n nature that cannot resist the idea of a Perfect Paradise. Folks will", "are garbed in light and innocence, and they have the happiness that\n we have been seeking for centuries. It would be a crime if anyone\n disturbed that happiness.\"", "\"There's no town,\" said Steiner. \"Not a building. Yet we're on the\n track of the minds. There's nothing but a meadow and some boscage, a", "\"Father Briton from Philadelphia,\" he said, \"on detached service. And\n you, my good man, what is your handle, your monicker, your tag?\"\n\n\n \"Ha-Adamah,\" said the man.", "man, but I am convinced of this: that this is a pristine and pure world\n and that ours and all the others we have visited are fallen worlds.\n Here are the prototypes of our first parents before their fall. They", "\"A crowd would laugh if told of it,\" said Stark, \"but not many would\n laugh if they had actually seen the place, or them. I am not a gullible", "\"Talk to them, Father Briton,\" said Stark. \"You are the linguist.\"\n\n\n \"Howdy,\" said the priest.", "\"You are not anything till I name you. But I will name you and then\n you can be. You are named Captain. He is named Priest. He is named\n Engineer. He is named Flunky.\"", "\"To die I do not understand. I am taught that it is a property of\n fallen nature to die, and that does not pertain to me or mine.\"\n\n\n \"And are you completely happy here?\"", "life traces on that little moon, but it would be a lively place. So\n they skipped several steps in the procedure.", "\"Ah—I see.\"\nBut the crew all drank of the fountain to be sociable. It was water,\n but water that excelled, cool and with all its original bubbles like\n the first water ever made.", "\"No. It would be no contest. I would not like to humble you.\"\nThey were there for three days. They were delighted with the place.", "And there was no denying that the Extraordinary Perception Locator (or\n Eppel) was a contrary machine. On Earth it had read\nPositive", "vainly through all the ages. I am taught that sickness and ageing and\n even death could come if this happiness were ever lost. I am taught\n that on at least one other unfortunate world it has actually been lost.\"", "\"Amazing quality of longevity seemingly inherent in the locale. Climate\n ideal. Daylight or half-light. All twenty-one hours from Planet", "\"Limited,\" said Steiner, \"as though within a pale. As though there were\n but one city, if that is its form. Shall we follow the rest of the" ], [ "\"I too am convinced,\" said Steiner. \"It is Paradise itself, where the\n lion lies down with the lamb, and where the serpent has not prevailed.", "\"The great serpent lives there. I would not disturb him. He has long\n been cranky because plans he had for us did not materialize. But we", "\"Ah—I see.\"\nBut the crew all drank of the fountain to be sociable. It was water,\n but water that excelled, cool and with all its original bubbles like\n the first water ever made.", "\"They looked at the priest thoughtfully.\n\n\n \"But it was Paradise in one way,\" said Steiner at last.\n\n\n \"How?\"", "Down in the great cave that Old Serpent, a two-legged one among whose\n names were \"Snake-Oil Sam,\" spoke to his underlings:", "man, but I am convinced of this: that this is a pristine and pure world\n and that ours and all the others we have visited are fallen worlds.\n Here are the prototypes of our first parents before their fall. They", "\"This is still a perfect come-on here. There is something in human\n nature that cannot resist the idea of a Perfect Paradise. Folks will", "It would be the darkest of crimes if we or others should play the part\n of the serpent, and intrude and spoil.\"", "They learned no more of the real nature of the sphere in their time\n there. Yet all but one of them were convinced of the reality when they\n left. And they talked of it as they took off.", "\"All things are possible.\"\n\n\n And it was then that Ha-Adamah, the shining man, gave a wild cry: \"No,\n no. Do not approach it. It is not allowed to eat of that one!\"", "It is indeed an unspoiled Paradise; and it would be a crime calling to\n the wide heavens for vengeance for anyone to smirch in any way that\n perfection.", "\"Certainly. Eat. It is the finest fruit in the garden.\"\n\"Well, the analogy breaks down there,\" said Stark. \"I was almost", "\"I thought so. Question the man further, Father. This is too\n incredible.\"\n\n\n \"It is a little odd. Adam, old man, how long have you been here?\"", "are garbed in light and innocence, and they have the happiness that\n we have been seeking for centuries. It would be a crime if anyone\n disturbed that happiness.\"", "\"I don't know, but they're right in the middle of it. Land here. We'll\n go to meet them at once. Timidity has never been an efficacious tool\n with us.\"", "beginning to believe in the thing. But if it isn't that, then what.\n Father Briton, you are the linguist, but in Hebrew does not Ha-Adamah\n and Hawwah mean—?\"", "\"If there are only two people here,\" said Casper Craig, \"then it may be\n that the rest of the world is not dangerous at all. It looked fertile", "strong too. Mainly it is the feverish passion to befoul and poison what\n is unspoiled. Fortunately I am sagacious enough to take advantage of", "\"Once more, Father,\" said Stark, \"you should be the authority; but does\n not the idea that it was the apple that was forbidden go back only to a\n medieval painting?\"", "\"I know it, Eve. The lion is a very important prop. Maybe one of the\n crackpot settlers will bring a new lion.\"" ], [ "It was for this reason that Glaser used that model no more, but built\n others more amenable. And it was for this reason also that the owners\n of Little Probe had acquired the original machine so cheaply.", "And there was no denying that the Extraordinary Perception Locator (or\n Eppel) was a contrary machine. On Earth it had read\nPositive", "The E. P. Locator had been designed by Glaser. But when the Locator\n had refused to read\nPositive", "Dawn did not come to the moon-town. The Little Probe hovered stationary\n in the light and the moon-town came up under the dawn. Then the Probe\n went down to visit whatever was there.", "There was one more test to run, one very tricky and difficult of\n analysis, that with the Extraordinary Perception Locator. This was", "the engineer; Casper Craig, super-cargo, tycoon and 51% owner of the\n Little Probe, and F. R. Briton, S.J., a Jesuit priest who was linguist", "individual, though this could not be certain) and got very definite\n action. Eppel was busy. The machine had a touch of the ham in it, and\n assumed an air of importance when it ran these tests.", "\"I know it, Eve. The lion is a very important prop. Maybe one of the\n crackpot settlers will bring a new lion.\"", "\"So much for that. Now to business. Gilbert, take a gram: Ninety\n Million Square Miles of Pristine Paradise for Sale or Lease. Farming,", "So it was with mixed expectations that Steiner locked onto the area\n and got a flick. He then narrowed to a smaller area (apparently one", "life traces on that little moon, but it would be a lively place. So\n they skipped several steps in the procedure.", "nothing for several hours as they hovered high over the rotation. Then\n it came—clearly and definitely, but from quite a small location only.", "Positive\non ninety per cent of\n the acknowledged superior minds of the Earth. In space it had been a\n sound guide to the unusual intelligences encountered. Yet on Suzuki-Mi", "neighbors. A completely planned globular settlement in a near arm of\n our own galaxy. Low taxes and liberal credit. Financing our specialty—\"", "They learned no more of the real nature of the sphere in their time\n there. Yet all but one of them were convinced of the reality when they\n left. And they talked of it as they took off.", "\"It'll take them fourteen days to get back with the settlers. We'll\n have time to overhaul the blasters. We haven't had any well-equipped", "\"There's no town,\" said Steiner. \"Not a building. Yet we're on the\n track of the minds. There's nothing but a meadow and some boscage, a", "\"And the damnest thing about it,\" muttered Langweilig, \"is, how are you\n going to prove him wrong? But it does give you a small feeling.\"\n\n\n \"Can we have something to eat?\" asked the Captain.", "He looked at the three dozen space ships stripped and stacked, and at\n the rather large pile of bone-meal in one corner.", "Positive\nwhen turned on the inventor himself,\n bad blood developed between machine and man. Glaser knew that he had\n extraordinary perception. He was a much honored man in his field. He" ], [ "Dawn did not come to the moon-town. The Little Probe hovered stationary\n in the light and the moon-town came up under the dawn. Then the Probe\n went down to visit whatever was there.", "I'm almost afraid to say. And those two ... why, they could well be\n Earth-people. But with a difference. Where is that bright light coming\n from?\"", "\"There's no town,\" said Steiner. \"Not a building. Yet we're on the\n track of the minds. There's nothing but a meadow and some boscage, a", "Finally it signaled the result, the most exasperating result it ever\n produces: the single orange light. It was the equivalent of the shrug\n of the shoulders in a man. They called it the \"You tell\nme\nlight.\"", "are garbed in light and innocence, and they have the happiness that\n we have been seeking for centuries. It would be a crime if anyone\n disturbed that happiness.\"", "\"And very little else,\" said Father Briton, \"though that light trick\n does serve a purpose. But I'm not sure they'd pass in Philadelphia.\"", "life traces on that little moon, but it would be a lively place. So\n they skipped several steps in the procedure.", "Well, they were people. And one could only wish that all people were\n like them. There was a man and a woman, and they were clothed either\n in very bright garments or in no garments at all, but only in a very\n bright light.", "\"Human,\" said Steiner. \"It may even be that they are a little more than\n human. I don't understand that light that surrounds them. And they seem\n to be clothed, as it were, in dignity.\"", "They learned no more of the real nature of the sphere in their time\n there. Yet all but one of them were convinced of the reality when they\n left. And they talked of it as they took off.", "\"And your daughter, or niece?\"\n\n\n It may be that the shining man frowned momentarily at this; but the\n woman smiled, proving that she was human.", "\"No. The rest of the world may be dangerous. There must be a reason\n that thought is in one spot only. If we find no others then we will go\n down boldly and visit this.\"", "It was a world with everything, and it seemed to have only two\n inhabitants. They went everywhere except into the big cave.", "\"Ah—I see.\"\nBut the crew all drank of the fountain to be sociable. It was water,\n but water that excelled, cool and with all its original bubbles like\n the first water ever made.", "\"I don't know, but they're right in the middle of it. Land here. We'll\n go to meet them at once. Timidity has never been an efficacious tool\n with us.\"", "\"They looked at the priest thoughtfully.\n\n\n \"But it was Paradise in one way,\" said Steiner at last.\n\n\n \"How?\"", "\"A crowd would laugh if told of it,\" said Stark, \"but not many would\n laugh if they had actually seen the place, or them. I am not a gullible", "\"Amazing quality of longevity seemingly inherent in the locale. Climate\n ideal. Daylight or half-light. All twenty-one hours from Planet", "\"Not a building, not two sticks or stones placed together. That looks\n like an Earth-type sheep there. And that looks like an Earth-lion,", "And there was no denying that the Extraordinary Perception Locator (or\n Eppel) was a contrary machine. On Earth it had read\nPositive" ] ]
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[ "Which best describes the relationship between the protagonists?", "What makes the protagonists become less concerned about being trapped by the beasts?", "How would you describe the pace of the characters, and why?", "What is not a type technology that is used in this story?", "What are Hathaway and Marnagan's physiques like?", "How would you describe Gunther as a villain?", "Based on your interpretation of the passage, of the following options who do you think would most likely be interested in reading it?", "How would you describe Click's primary motivations?" ]
[ [ "They're friendly but their friendship detracts from their ability to problem-solve and be productive.", "They're both in a tough situation but their hatred for one another pushes them to work independently.", "They work together and are able to coordinate with each other pretty well.", "They don't like each other too much; they put up with each other at best." ], [ "They realized that the beasts were not actually interested in hurting them, so they were able to calmly leave their hiding spot.", "They realized that the beasts were too big to fit into the space they were in, so they could camp out in that spot indefinitely.", "They realized the beasts were not actual beasts, but were meant to seem real.", "They realized that the beasts die when their photo is taken, and they had captured many of the beasts on camera." ], [ "Quickly. The characters were under a time constraint, depleting air, and were encountering additional threats that made them move with haste.", "At a sprint. The characters were so scared that they were rushing decisions and they weren't thinking logically.", "Average. Though the characters were concerned for their survival, they were taking things at a normal pace because they thought they could be rescued.", "Slowly. The characters didn't want to endanger themselves further in the situation so they tried to think everything through fully." ], [ "Tasers that paralyze individuals and render them unconscious", "Highly advanced space travel", "Tools that allow one to distort how someone else perceives reality", "Filming devices " ], [ "There isn't much discussion about how either person looks at all.", "Marnagan is consistently described as feeble in comparison to Hathaway.", "Both of their appearances are described to some degree, and Marnagan is often described as being a large presence.", "Both are each regularly described as having similar builds." ], [ "He's likely been successful in the past, but he's clearly conquerable.", "He's so universally despised that he has to work alone.", "He's a classically funny villain, like what you'd imagine in children's movies and comedies.", "He's fairly irresponsible and ruthless." ], [ "A luddite who thinks even discussing technology is frustrating.", "A well-read teenager with a penchant for thrilling adventure stories.", "An avid reader of romance novels set in sci-fi locations.", "An elementary schooler who likes outer space." ], [ "He was originally focused on filming, but he was also focused on survival efforts.", "He was solely focused on filming the events and didn't contribute much else.", "He wanted to help beyond filming but only ended up hurting the mission further.", "He was focused on filming the events at first, but when he realized he needed to pitch in he forgot all about filming." ] ]
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[ [ "Marnagan said nothing, but his thick lips went down at the corners, far\n down, and the green eyes blazed.\n\n\n They stopped, together.\n\n\n \"Oops!\" Click said.", "\"They got impervious hides. No use. Gahh! And that was a pretty chase,\n eh, Click?\"\n\n\n \"Yeah. Sure.\nYou\nenjoyed it, every moment of it.\"", "Marnagan shifted uneasily. \"Here, now. You're doing nothing but\n sitting, looking like a little boy locked in a bedroom closet, so take\n me a profile shot of the beasties and myself.\"", "directness. \"A ship hasn't landed here for an hour. Your ship was the\n last. Two people were on it. The last I saw of them they were being", "\"Both. The other guy went after the Patrol.\"\n\n\n \"Impossible!\"\n\n\n \"I can't respect your opinion, Mr. Gunther.\"", "\"Forget it. I was so blamed glad to see your homely carcass in one\n hunk, I couldn't help—Look, now, about Gunther. Those animals are part", "Gunther sat there, blinking at Hathaway, not moving. His thin hands\n twitched in his lap. \"You are bluffing,\" he said, finally, with a firm", "They started walking, fast, over the pocked, rubbled plain toward a\n bony ridge of metal. They kept their eyes wide and awake. There wasn't", "It got quiet. It got so quiet you could almost hear the asteroids\n rushing up, cold, blue and hard. You could hear your heart kicking a\n tom-tom between your sick stomach and your empty lungs.", "\"Lots of time, little man. Forty more minutes of air, to be exact.\"\nThey sat, staring at the monsters for about a minute. Hathaway felt", "Hathaway screamed the air out of his lungs, but his brain was thinking\n quick crazy, unimportant things. The best scenes in life never reach", "The monsters returned.\nA soundless deluge of them, pouring over the rubbled horizon, swarming\n in malevolent anticipation about the two men.", "Hathaway didn't answer. But his eyes told the story by just looking at\n Irish.\n\n\n Marnagan cursed. \"All right, lad. Let's have at it!\"", "A tunnel curved, ending in light, and two men silhouetted in that\n yellow glare. Marnagan, backed against a wall, his helmet cracked,", "\"I tied them pink elephants of Gunther's in neat alphabetical bundles\n and stacked them up to dry, ya louse!\" Marnagan said. \"But, damn you,\n they killed my partner before he had a chance!\"", "Hathaway yelled and ran, Marnagan at his heels, lumbering. Sweat broke\n cold on his body. The immense things rolled, slithered and squirmed", "The ship struck, once. Bouncing, it struck again. It turned end over\n and stopped. Hathaway felt himself grabbed; he and Marnagan rattled", "Hathaway shook a head that was tons heavy and weary. \"Not if we believe\n in them to a\ncertain point\n. Psychologically they can both be seen and\n felt. We only want to\nsee\nthem coming at us again.\"", "mashed and scattered. They were lucky to have escaped. Or\nwas\nsuffocation a better death...?\nSixty minutes.\nThey stood and looked at one another.", "pursued to the death by the Beasts. One of you escaped, it seemed.\"" ], [ "the beasts. \"People crashing here die from air-lack, no food, or from\n wounds caused at the crackup. If they survive all that—the animals", "pursued to the death by the Beasts. One of you escaped, it seemed.\"", "\"Lots of time, little man. Forty more minutes of air, to be exact.\"\nThey sat, staring at the monsters for about a minute. Hathaway felt", "The outpour of animals came from a low lying mound a mile farther on.\n Evidently the telepathic source lay there. They approached it warily.", "Marnagan shifted uneasily. \"Here, now. You're doing nothing but\n sitting, looking like a little boy locked in a bedroom closet, so take\n me a profile shot of the beasties and myself.\"", "The monsters returned.\nA soundless deluge of them, pouring over the rubbled horizon, swarming\n in malevolent anticipation about the two men.", "suspicious about animals. And if the tourists don't leave, the animals\n kill them.\"", "Hathaway fought against the mist in his eyes. \"Just think—I will see\n the monsters again. I will see them again and I will not feel them.\n Think it over and over.\"", "\"Hold tight, hell, let's move. We've got to find where those animals\n came from! And the only way to do that is to get the animals to come\n back!\"\n\n\n \"Come back? How?\"", "\"They got impervious hides. No use. Gahh! And that was a pretty chase,\n eh, Click?\"\n\n\n \"Yeah. Sure.\nYou\nenjoyed it, every moment of it.\"", "No more monsters.\n\n\n Marnagan smiled a smile broader than his shoulders. \"Hey, Click, look\n at me! I'm in one piece. Why, hell, the damned things turned tail and\n ran away!\"", "you\nforget the monsters.\n Let me handle them, I know how. They might fool you again, you might\n forget.\"", "Marnagan held his gun out in front of him and still smiling took one,\n two, three, four steps out into the outside world. The monsters were\n waiting for him at the fifth step. Marnagan kept walking.", "He elucidated it over and over again to the Patrolman. About the film,\n the beasts, and how the film couldn't be wrong. If the film said the\n monsters weren't there, they weren't there.", "Hathaway yelled and ran, Marnagan at his heels, lumbering. Sweat broke\n cold on his body. The immense things rolled, slithered and squirmed", "\"Forget it. I was so blamed glad to see your homely carcass in one\n hunk, I couldn't help—Look, now, about Gunther. Those animals are part", "Hathaway shook a head that was tons heavy and weary. \"Not if we believe\n in them to a\ncertain point\n. Psychologically they can both be seen and\n felt. We only want to\nsee\nthem coming at us again.\"", "They started walking, fast, over the pocked, rubbled plain toward a\n bony ridge of metal. They kept their eyes wide and awake. There wasn't", "The strange harsh voice said, \"That's better. Don't try and pick that\n gun up now. Oh, so it's you. I thought Gunther had finished you off.\n How'd you get past the animals?\"", "Hathaway made it first, Marnagan bellowing just behind him. \"They're\n too big; they can't get us in here!\" Click's voice gasped it out," ], [ "They started walking, fast, over the pocked, rubbled plain toward a\n bony ridge of metal. They kept their eyes wide and awake. There wasn't", "Hathaway yelled and ran, Marnagan at his heels, lumbering. Sweat broke\n cold on his body. The immense things rolled, slithered and squirmed", "\"Lots of time, little man. Forty more minutes of air, to be exact.\"\nThey sat, staring at the monsters for about a minute. Hathaway felt", "\"If we walk in opposite directions, Click Hathaway, we'd be shaking\n hands the other side of this rock in two hours.\" Marnagan shook his mop", "It got quiet. It got so quiet you could almost hear the asteroids\n rushing up, cold, blue and hard. You could hear your heart kicking a\n tom-tom between your sick stomach and your empty lungs.", "Gunther sat there, blinking at Hathaway, not moving. His thin hands\n twitched in his lap. \"You are bluffing,\" he said, finally, with a firm", "\"They got impervious hides. No use. Gahh! And that was a pretty chase,\n eh, Click?\"\n\n\n \"Yeah. Sure.\nYou\nenjoyed it, every moment of it.\"", "Click was afraid he would show his weak dizziness. He needed air.\n \"Okay. Drag Marnagan with you, open the door and we'll have air. Double\n time! Double!\"", "Hathaway screamed the air out of his lungs, but his brain was thinking\n quick crazy, unimportant things. The best scenes in life never reach", "His voice stopped and the silence spoke.\n\n\n Hathaway felt his heart pumping slow, hot pumps of blood. \"I checked\n my oxygen, Irish. Sixty minutes of breathing left.\"", "and fall down dead. Number three is to clutch at your side, fall down\n and twitch on the ground. Is that clear?\"", "Marnagan held his gun out in front of him and still smiling took one,\n two, three, four steps out into the outside world. The monsters were\n waiting for him at the fifth step. Marnagan kept walking.", "directness. \"A ship hasn't landed here for an hour. Your ship was the\n last. Two people were on it. The last I saw of them they were being", "\"Ran, hell!\" cried Hathaway, rushing out, his face flushed and\n animated. \"They just plain vanished. They were only imaginative\n figments!\"", "The outpour of animals came from a low lying mound a mile farther on.\n Evidently the telepathic source lay there. They approached it warily.", "Marnagan said nothing, but his thick lips went down at the corners, far\n down, and the green eyes blazed.\n\n\n They stopped, together.\n\n\n \"Oops!\" Click said.", "The monsters returned.\nA soundless deluge of them, pouring over the rubbled horizon, swarming\n in malevolent anticipation about the two men.", "anything. Nobody fooled nobody with this act. Death was near and they\n had sweaty faces, dry mouths and frozen guts.", "Marnagan was making good progress ahead of Hathaway. But he stopped and\n raised his gun and made quick moves with it. \"Click! This one here!", "The ship struck, once. Bouncing, it struck again. It turned end over\n and stopped. Hathaway felt himself grabbed; he and Marnagan rattled" ], [ "The telepathic sending station for the animals was a great bank of\n intricate, glittering machine, through which strips of colored film\n with images slid into slots and machine mouths that translated them\n into thought-emanations. A damned neat piece of genius.", "and fall down dead. Number three is to clutch at your side, fall down\n and twitch on the ground. Is that clear?\"", "education. Poke another spool of film in that contraption and give me\n profile a scan. This is lesson number seven: Daniel Walks Into The\n Lion's Den.\"", "it. As for me—\" he twisted his glossy red face. \"Keeping alive is me\n hobby. And this sort of two-bit death I did not order.\"", "\"Click—\" Marnagan's face was a bitter, tortured movement behind glass.\n \"Click—\" He was fighting hard. \"I—I—sure now. Sure—\" He smiled.\n \"It—it's only a shanty fake!\"", "The silence punctuated that sentence, too. Upon the sharp meteoric\n rocks Hathaway saw the tangled insides of the radio, the food supply", "of his set-up. Explorers who land here inadvertently, are chased back\n into their ships, forced to take off. Tourists and the like. Nothing", "A hunk of metal teetered, fell with a crash. Marnagan elevated seven\n feet of bellowing manhood from the wreck.", "developed, smiling. It was one of his best inventions. Self-developing\n film. The first light struck film-surface, destroyed one chemical,\n leaving imprints; the second exposure simply hardened, secured the", "The picture of Marnagan hunched huge over the control-console,\n wrenching levers, jamming studs with freckled fists. And out in the", "\"I haven't got one.\"\n\n\n \"We'll chance it, then. You stick here until I see what's ahead. They\n probably got scanners out. Let them see me—\"", "\"I don't see no Base around.\"\nClick shrugged. \"Still doubt it? Okay. Look.\" He tapped his camera and", "a spool popped out onto his gloved palm. Holding it up, he stripped\n it out to its full twenty inch length, held it to the light while it", "the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]\nSuddenly, it was there. There wasn't time to blink or speak or get", "Gunther raged, and swept a small pistol from his linked corselet. He\n fired wildly until Hathaway hit him over the head with a paper-weight.", "They started walking, fast, over the pocked, rubbled plain toward a\n bony ridge of metal. They kept their eyes wide and awake. There wasn't", "bones.\" He took an unnecessary hitch in trousers that didn't exist\n except under an inch of porous metal plate. \"Your express purpose on", "film, or an audience. Like this one, dammit! Like\nthis\none! His\n brain spun, racketing like the instantaneous, flicking motions of his\n camera.", "tend to them. It all looks like Nature was responsible. See how subtle\n his attack is? Looks like accidental death instead of murder, if the\n Patrol happens to land and finds us. No reason for undue investigation,", "Click started running. He switched off his\nsending\naudio, kept his\nreceiving" ], [ "\"Get out of the way,\" said Hathaway.\n\n\n Marnagan put his big fists on his hips. \"If anyone is going anywhere,\n it'll be me does the going.\"", "Marnagan's thick lips opened. \"It's only a fake,\" he said. And then,\n irritated, \"Get the hell off me, Hathaway. Let me up to my feet!\"", "Hathaway didn't answer. But his eyes told the story by just looking at\n Irish.\n\n\n Marnagan cursed. \"All right, lad. Let's have at it!\"", "Marnagan wasn't fooling anybody. Hathaway knew the superficial palaver\n for nothing but a covering over the fast, furious thinking running", "Hathaway yelled and ran, Marnagan at his heels, lumbering. Sweat broke\n cold on his body. The immense things rolled, slithered and squirmed", "Hathaway grabbed the camera, gasped, squinted, and gasped again:\n Pictures in montage; Marnagan sitting down, chatting conversationally\n with", "Marnagan was making good progress ahead of Hathaway. But he stopped and\n raised his gun and made quick moves with it. \"Click! This one here!", "And before Hathaway could object, Marnagan walked off. He walked about\n five hundred yards, bent down, applied his fingers to something, heaved\n up, and there was a door opening in the rock.", "Hathaway darted forward, flung his body over Marnagan's, covered the\n helmet glass with his hands, shouting:", "as Marnagan squeezed his two-hundred-fifty pounds beside him.\n Instinctively, Hathaway added, \"Asteroid monsters! My camera! What a\n scene!\"", "Hathaway made it first, Marnagan bellowing just behind him. \"They're\n too big; they can't get us in here!\" Click's voice gasped it out,", "Ten minutes later, Marnagan and Hathaway, fresh tanks of oxygen on\n their backs, Marnagan in a fresh bulger and helmet, trussed the guard,", "The picture of Marnagan hunched huge over the control-console,\n wrenching levers, jamming studs with freckled fists. And out in the", "Hathaway felt funny inside, suddenly. \"I never thought of that.\n Marnagan die? I just took it for granted you'd come through. You always", "\"If we walk in opposite directions, Click Hathaway, we'd be shaking\n hands the other side of this rock in two hours.\" Marnagan shook his mop", "There was plenty of noise. Too damned much. Hathaway only knew he was\n picked up and hurled against a lever-bank, and that Marnagan wasn't", "Hathaway looked at him. \"So you're Gunther?\" he said, calmly. The\n pirate was incredibly old, his bulging forehead stood out over sunken,", "The ship struck, once. Bouncing, it struck again. It turned end over\n and stopped. Hathaway felt himself grabbed; he and Marnagan rattled", "Marnagan said nothing, but his thick lips went down at the corners, far\n down, and the green eyes blazed.\n\n\n They stopped, together.\n\n\n \"Oops!\" Click said.", "\"Nuts! Any color\nwe\nsee, the camera sees. We've been fooled.\"\n\n\n \"Hey, where\nyou\ngoing?\" Marnagan blocked Hathaway as the smaller man\n tried pushing past him." ], [ "Gunther sat there, blinking at Hathaway, not moving. His thin hands\n twitched in his lap. \"You are bluffing,\" he said, finally, with a firm", "Hathaway went on saying his thoughts: \"This is Gunther's work. He's\n here somewhere, probably laughing his guts out at the job he did us.", "Hathaway looked at him. \"So you're Gunther?\" he said, calmly. The\n pirate was incredibly old, his bulging forehead stood out over sunken,", "He got halfway there when he felt a gun in his back.\n\n\n He didn't resist. They took him straight ahead to his destination and\n pushed him into a room where Gunther sat.", "had his profile toward Hathaway, his lips twisting: \"I think I'll let\n you stand right there and die,\" he said quietly. \"That what Gunther\n wanted, anway. A nice sordid death.\"", "Gunther babbled like a child, his voice a shrill dagger in the air.\n \"Get out there, you men! Throw them back! We're outnumbered!\"", "The strange harsh voice said, \"That's better. Don't try and pick that\n gun up now. Oh, so it's you. I thought Gunther had finished you off.\n How'd you get past the animals?\"", "Gunther raged, and swept a small pistol from his linked corselet. He\n fired wildly until Hathaway hit him over the head with a paper-weight.", "from filming it. Everything was too wild, hot and angry. Gunther was\n throwing a fit, still seated at his desk, unable to move because of his\n fragile, bony legs and their atrophied state.", "\"Are you telling me? It's man-made. Better than that—it's Gunther! No", "\"Forget it. I was so blamed glad to see your homely carcass in one\n hunk, I couldn't help—Look, now, about Gunther. Those animals are part", "Click nodded. \"Gunther knows how you'd hate dying this way, Irish.\n It's irony clean through. That's probably why he planned the meteor and\n the crash this way.\"", "whose dirty face has never been seen, Gunther by name, finally wins\n through to a triumphant finish. Photographed on the spot, in color, by\n yours truly, Click Hathaway. Cosmic Films, please notice.\"", "\"I tied them pink elephants of Gunther's in neat alphabetical bundles\n and stacked them up to dry, ya louse!\" Marnagan said. \"But, damn you,\n they killed my partner before he had a chance!\"", "Then Hathaway took a picture of Gunther slumped at his desk, the chaos\n taking place immediately outside his window.", "started yelling. Gunther turned slowly to the huge window in one side\n of his office. He stared, hard.", "\"Both. The other guy went after the Patrol.\"\n\n\n \"Impossible!\"\n\n\n \"I can't respect your opinion, Mr. Gunther.\"", "\"All right, put 'em up!\" a new harsh voice cried over a different\n radio. One of Gunther's guards.\n\n\n Three shots sizzled out, and Marnagan bellowed.", "The Monster Maker\nBy RAY BRADBURY\n\"Get Gunther,\" the official orders read. It\n\n was to laugh! For Click and Irish were", "attached his camera to his mid-belt. \"Gunther probably thinks we're\n dead by now. Everyone else's been fooled by his playmates; they never\n had a chance to disbelieve them.\"" ], [ "education. Poke another spool of film in that contraption and give me\n profile a scan. This is lesson number seven: Daniel Walks Into The\n Lion's Den.\"", "you like, Click. It's times like this when we all need words, any\n words, on our tongues. You got your camera and your scoop. Talk about", "\"Forget it. I was so blamed glad to see your homely carcass in one\n hunk, I couldn't help—Look, now, about Gunther. Those animals are part", "directness. \"A ship hasn't landed here for an hour. Your ship was the\n last. Two people were on it. The last I saw of them they were being", "and fall down dead. Number three is to clutch at your side, fall down\n and twitch on the ground. Is that clear?\"", "film, or an audience. Like this one, dammit! Like\nthis\none! His\n brain spun, racketing like the instantaneous, flicking motions of his\n camera.", "the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]\nSuddenly, it was there. There wasn't time to blink or speak or get", "\"Ain't your say-so good enough for me?\"\n\n\n \"Yes. Sure. Of course. I guess—\"", "tend to them. It all looks like Nature was responsible. See how subtle\n his attack is? Looks like accidental death instead of murder, if the\n Patrol happens to land and finds us. No reason for undue investigation,", "it. As for me—\" he twisted his glossy red face. \"Keeping alive is me\n hobby. And this sort of two-bit death I did not order.\"", "you\nforget the monsters.\n Let me handle them, I know how. They might fool you again, you might\n forget.\"", "impressions. Quick stuff.", "\"They got impervious hides. No use. Gahh! And that was a pretty chase,\n eh, Click?\"\n\n\n \"Yeah. Sure.\nYou\nenjoyed it, every moment of it.\"", "\"Which one will you be having?\" asked Irish, casually. \"A red one or a\n blue one?\"", "bones.\" He took an unnecessary hitch in trousers that didn't exist\n except under an inch of porous metal plate. \"Your express purpose on", "of his set-up. Explorers who land here inadvertently, are chased back\n into their ships, forced to take off. Tourists and the like. Nothing", "anything. Nobody fooled nobody with this act. Death was near and they\n had sweaty faces, dry mouths and frozen guts.", "when you do it. Snap it, now, we've got rush work to do. How good an\n actor are you?\"", "Marnagan showed his teeth. \"Gah! Let a flea have all the fun? And\n besides, Click, I like to look at them. They're pretty.\"", "\"Sure, and ain't I always smilin'? Ah, Click boy, are them tears in\n your sweet grey eyes?\"" ], [ "Click nodded. \"Gunther knows how you'd hate dying this way, Irish.\n It's irony clean through. That's probably why he planned the meteor and\n the crash this way.\"", "When Click finished filming, Irish sat down to save oxygen, and used it\n up arguing about Gunther. Click came back at him:", "\"They got impervious hides. No use. Gahh! And that was a pretty chase,\n eh, Click?\"\n\n\n \"Yeah. Sure.\nYou\nenjoyed it, every moment of it.\"", "His voice came back across the distance, into Click's earphones. \"A\n door, an air-lock, Click. A tunnel leading down inside!\"", "\"Click—\" Marnagan's face was a bitter, tortured movement behind glass.\n \"Click—\" He was fighting hard. \"I—I—sure now. Sure—\" He smiled.\n \"It—it's only a shanty fake!\"", "Marnagan showed his teeth. \"Gah! Let a flea have all the fun? And\n besides, Click, I like to look at them. They're pretty.\"", "Marnagan said nothing, but his thick lips went down at the corners, far\n down, and the green eyes blazed.\n\n\n They stopped, together.\n\n\n \"Oops!\" Click said.", "\"Yeah,\" said Marnagan. \"But step outside this cave—\"\n\n\n \"If my theory is correct I'll do it, unafraid,\" said Click.", "Click was afraid he would show his weak dizziness. He needed air.\n \"Okay. Drag Marnagan with you, open the door and we'll have air. Double\n time! Double!\"", "Marnagan's homely face grimaced in sympathy. \"Hold tight, Click. The\n guy that invented these fish-bowls didn't provide for a sick stomach.\"", "Click started running. He switched off his\nsending\naudio, kept his\nreceiving", "\"If it hadn't been for you taking them pictures, Click—\"", "Then, Marnagan dropped into the tunnel, disappearing. Click heard the\n thud of his feet hitting the metal flooring.\n\n\n Click sucked in his breath, hard and fast.", "\"I don't see no Base around.\"\nClick shrugged. \"Still doubt it? Okay. Look.\" He tapped his camera and", "The guard laughed.\nThe air-lock door was still wide open when Click reached it, his head", "They ran back. \"Let's try it again.\"\n\n\n They tried it. They scowled at each other. The same thing happened.\n \"Gravity should not act this way, Click.\"", "Click Hathaway felt the ship move under him like a sensitive animal's\n skin. And then the meteor hit. It made a spiked fist and knocked the", "\"Irish, I—\"\n\n\n \"Shut up and load up.\"\n\n\n Hathaway nervously loaded the film-slot, raised it.\n\n\n \"Ready, Click?\"", "\"\nDo\nwe, now?\"\n\n\n \"With twenty minutes left, maybe less—\"\n\n\n \"All right, Click, let's bring 'em back. How do we do it?\"", "film, or an audience. Like this one, dammit! Like\nthis\none! His\n brain spun, racketing like the instantaneous, flicking motions of his\n camera." ] ]
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[ "Why is David Corbin on the ship in the first place?", "Of his fellow crew members, who does David seem to have the most concern for and why?", "What is one potential moral of this story?", "Of the following, which personality traits best describe David?", "If David had entirely forgotten his life prior to the mission, what would've happened?", "If Karen remains in her current state long-term, what would most likely happen?", "Why did everyone have to wake up?" ]
[ [ "He has to direct his crew to an area with potentially large amounts of natural resources.", "He has to direct his crew to an area with potentially habitable planets.", "He's a doctor who has to tend to the other crew members who were medically sedated.", "He has to direct his crew home to Earth on the tail end of their intergalactic voyage." ], [ "Karen, because she's a female crew member and because she has a bad reaction to being awoken.", "John, because he relies on him to be his right-hand man.", "John, because David first wakes him up with the apparatus and is unsure how safe the apparatus is to operate.", "Karen, because she's his wife and he only remembers this with time." ], [ "Trying to find more habitable planets is a pointless endeavor.", "Working together as a team and having hope can lead to more effective results.", "Taking drastic actions without thinking them through is very risky.", "It's best to trust your instincts and to not trust the technology around you." ], [ "Attractive, witty, and charismatic", "Smart, calculating, and cautious", "Bold, quiet, and dumb", "Focused, funny, and attractive" ], [ "He probably would've done a bad job at healing his crew.", "He probably would've failed to wake up the rest of his crew.", "He probably wouldn't be able to fly the ship very well, leading to dangerous outcomes.", "He probably would've flirted with Karen a bit more." ], [ "She probably wouldn't be able to create, transform, or assess compounds very well.", "She probably would avoid any advances from David or the others because she's less trusting of any of them.", "She'd probably end up learning how to do someone else's job instead so she can help the crew out in some way.", "She'd probably try to exit the ship at the first planet they land on so she doesn't deplete the ship's resources more than needed." ], [ "Everyone had to help fly the ship so it wouldn't crash into the G type star.", "Everyone worked in pairs in the same position so they needed their partners.", "Everyone had their own job on the ship that needed doing.", "Everyone remembered small elements of what was going on and wanted to keep the information to themselves." ] ]
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[ [ "David Corbin.", "\"Your name is David Corbin.\"", "\"Your name is David Corbin. Do you understand?\"", "\"Your name is David Corbin. If you understand, press button A on your\n right.\"", "\"Your name is David Corbin. If you understand, press button A on your\n right.\"", "CAPTAIN CHAOS\nBy D. ALLEN MORRISSEY\nScience equipped David Corbin with borrowed time;", "\"I suppose. The mission stated one chemist.\"\n\n\n \"What is the mission of this ship?\" I asked.", "\"What about her. Why is she here?\" I asked my companion.\n\n\n He lifted the cover from the apparatus. \"She's the chemist in the crew.\"\n\n\n \"A girl?\"", "\"Who is in charge of this ship?\" I asked.\n\n\n He tensed suddenly. \"You are, sir. Why?\"", "John answered for me. \"First we've got to find out where we are. I know\n this ship but I can't fly it.\"", "Searching the ship made me forget my fear. I hoped I would find some\n answers. I went from the nose to the last bulkhead in a frenzy of", "\"It's been dead ahead for hours,\" he grunted. I leaned over and threw\n the intercom to open. \"This is control. Listen ... everyone. I'm over\n it. Disregard the warning siren ... we were testing the ship.\"", "\"You said I had flown this ship. You meant before this suspension.\"\n\n\n \"Yes. That's why we can cross space to a near star.\"\n\n\n \"How long ago was it?\"", "He hit his hands together. \"You fly it, sir. Can't you think?\"\n\n\n \"I'm trying. I know the ship is familiar, but I've looked it over.\n Maybe I'm trying too hard.\"", "\"John, what are your duties if any?\"\n\n\n \"Automatic control. I helped to install it.\"\n\n\n \"Can you run this ship? How about the other two?\"", "the engine or engines took up half the ship, cut off from the forward\n half by the instrument studded shield. I retraced my steps and took a\n rough estimate of size. The ship, as I called it, was at least four", "Viking, was all right until he moved. The weightless sensation made him\n violently sick. We put him back on the cot, securing him again with", "an infinitesimal point somewhere behind us on the galactic plane, and\n no one else was trained to navigate. The ship thundered to life as I", "I was past the rooms when the horn blasted through the corridor. I\n turned automatically with the sound, pushing against the rail, towards\n the control room. Deep in my mind I could see danger, and without", "I knew more of the puzzle. Something was wrong. After the first shock\n of looking out, I accepted the fact that I was in a space ship, yet I" ], [ "I thought about the rest of the crew too. \"We're heading right for a\n star....\"", "\"Your name is David Corbin. Do you understand?\"", "\"Your name is David Corbin.\"", "The second man, the dark haired one, opened his eyes and recognized us.\n He asked questions in rapid fire excitement. The third man, the tall", "David Corbin.", "searched each face without recognition. The blond man was Carl Herrick,\n a metallurgist. His lean face was white from his spell but he was\n better. Paul Sample was a biologist, John said. He was lithe and", "\"It's been dead ahead for hours,\" he grunted. I leaned over and threw\n the intercom to open. \"This is control. Listen ... everyone. I'm over\n it. Disregard the warning siren ... we were testing the ship.\"", "He hit his hands together. \"You fly it, sir. Can't you think?\"\n\n\n \"I'm trying. I know the ship is familiar, but I've looked it over.\n Maybe I'm trying too hard.\"", "Searching the ship made me forget my fear. I hoped I would find some\n answers. I went from the nose to the last bulkhead in a frenzy of", "\"Who is in charge of this ship?\" I asked.\n\n\n He tensed suddenly. \"You are, sir. Why?\"", "Viking, was all right until he moved. The weightless sensation made him\n violently sick. We put him back on the cot, securing him again with", "Carl caught my eye. \"Captain, we save this time without aging at all.\n It puts us near a calculated destination.\"\n\n\n \"We've lost our lifetime.\" It was Karen. She had been crying silently\n while we talked.", "\"Your name is David Corbin. If you understand, press button A on your\n right.\"", "\"Your name is David Corbin. If you understand, press button A on your\n right.\"", "restless, with dark eyes that studied the rest of us. I looked at the\n girl. She was staring out of the ports, her hands pressed against the", "\"What about her. Why is she here?\" I asked my companion.\n\n\n He lifted the cover from the apparatus. \"She's the chemist in the crew.\"\n\n\n \"A girl?\"", "into the doors in the passageway and went back to the room with the\n portholes. Everything lay in readiness, fastened down star charts,\n instruments, glittering equipment. There was no feeling of disorder or", "an infinitesimal point somewhere behind us on the galactic plane, and\n no one else was trained to navigate. The ship thundered to life as I", "John answered for me. \"First we've got to find out where we are. I know\n this ship but I can't fly it.\"", "\"John, what are your duties if any?\"\n\n\n \"Automatic control. I helped to install it.\"\n\n\n \"Can you run this ship? How about the other two?\"" ], [ "I stood by the man for long minutes. Finally it came. He stirred\n restlessly, closing his hands into fists. The deep chest rose and fell", "\"What—made you—think of that,\" I asked weakly.\n\n\n \"Shock treatment.\"\n\n\n \"I must have acted on instinct.\"", "\"I can't grasp it. How can we go very far in a lifetime?\"\n\n\n \"It can be done in two lifetimes,\" John said quietly.", "all, depending on a blind helpless fool who didn't know their names or\n the reason for that dependence. I sat beside her on the cot until I\n could stand it no longer.", "motion and stopped against a door at the end. Behind me I could see the\n opened door I had left, and the thought of that questioning voice made\n me want to move. I swung the door open, catching a glimpse of a room", "\"I don't have to tell you I was scared as hell. I wish you could have\n seen your face, the look in your eyes when I woke up.\"\n\n\n \"I wouldn't want to wake up like that again.\"", "The next room held another man. He was young and wiry, like an athlete\n cast in marble, dark haired and big jawed. A glassy eye stared up when", "looked right. It was then I realized the needle came to a spot where it\n could have hit my neck when I lay down. My shout of excitement rang out", "wanted him to understand. \"Look, I'm in trouble. Nothing fits, except\n my name.\"", "\"It's been dead ahead for hours,\" he grunted. I leaned over and threw\n the intercom to open. \"This is control. Listen ... everyone. I'm over\n it. Disregard the warning siren ... we were testing the ship.\"", "I rolled back his eyelid. The eyelid remained open until I closed it\n and went on. Another room ... another man ... another stranger. This", "I held my bruised hands to my mouth, and I knew that was all the\n message there was. In blind panic I pushed away from the panel.", "I went back to the cabin where the powerful man lay. I had to risk\n failure with one of them. I didn't want it to be the girl. I fought", "\"You did. Even for a sick man that was pretty fast,\" he laughed.\n\n\n \"I can think again, John. I know who I am,\" I shouted. I threw my arms\n around his massive shoulders. \"You did it.\"", "was to seal tight the prying minds of foolish interlopers.\n[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from", "\"John did it. He hit the alarm figuring I would react. Listen, Paul. Is\n any one hurt?\"", "that mean ... in time ... in time. I went back down the passageway.\nThe fourth small room was the same. Except for the woman. She lay on a", "We were out of luck with the girl. She woke up and she was frightened.\n We questioned her and she was coherent but she couldn't remember. I\n tried to smile as I sat on the cot, wondering what she was thinking.", "The question frightened her. \"Should I? I feel so strange. Give me a\n minute to think.\"\n\n\n I let her sit up slowly. \"Do you know your name?\"", "\"Tell me what to do,\" I shouted wildly. I hammered the hard metal until\n the pain in my hands made me stop.\n\n\n \"I can't remember what to do.\"" ], [ "David Corbin.", "\"Your name is David Corbin.\"", "\"Your name is David Corbin. Do you understand?\"", "\"Your name is David Corbin. If you understand, press button A on your\n right.\"", "\"Your name is David Corbin. If you understand, press button A on your\n right.\"", "searched each face without recognition. The blond man was Carl Herrick,\n a metallurgist. His lean face was white from his spell but he was\n better. Paul Sample was a biologist, John said. He was lithe and", "The next room held another man. He was young and wiry, like an athlete\n cast in marble, dark haired and big jawed. A glassy eye stared up when", "I stood by the man for long minutes. Finally it came. He stirred\n restlessly, closing his hands into fists. The deep chest rose and fell", "wanted him to understand. \"Look, I'm in trouble. Nothing fits, except\n my name.\"", "The second man, the dark haired one, opened his eyes and recognized us.\n He asked questions in rapid fire excitement. The third man, the tall", "The first swung back to reveal a deep closet holding five bulky suits.\n The second room was like my own. A dark haired, deep chested man lay on", "He let his breath out in a whistle. \"For God's sake. Any bump on your\n head?\"\n\n\n \"I feel all right physically. I just can't place enough.\"", "\"What—made you—think of that,\" I asked weakly.\n\n\n \"Shock treatment.\"\n\n\n \"I must have acted on instinct.\"", "motion and stopped against a door at the end. Behind me I could see the\n opened door I had left, and the thought of that questioning voice made\n me want to move. I swung the door open, catching a glimpse of a room", "all, depending on a blind helpless fool who didn't know their names or\n the reason for that dependence. I sat beside her on the cot until I\n could stand it no longer.", "I stared at my familiar hands. I rubbed them across my face, feeling\n the solidity of flesh and bone, afraid to think too hard about myself.\n\n\n \"My name ... my name is....\"", "CAPTAIN CHAOS\nBy D. ALLEN MORRISSEY\nScience equipped David Corbin with borrowed time;", "He shook his head, watching me like I was a freak. \"Let's check the\n rest right away.\"\n\n\n \"Yes. I've got to know if they are like me. I'm afraid to think they\n might be.\"", "\"You did. Even for a sick man that was pretty fast,\" he laughed.\n\n\n \"I can think again, John. I know who I am,\" I shouted. I threw my arms\n around his massive shoulders. \"You did it.\"", "He shrugged at the question. \"Fine, I guess. Funny, I can't remember.\"\n\n\n He saw it in my face, making him stop. \"I can't remember dropping off\n to sleep,\" he finished." ], [ "He shrugged at the question. \"Fine, I guess. Funny, I can't remember.\"\n\n\n He saw it in my face, making him stop. \"I can't remember dropping off\n to sleep,\" he finished.", "I held his hard arm. \"What else? How much do you remember?\"\n\n\n \"I'm all right,\" he answered. \"There aren't supposed to be any effects\n from this.\"", "\"That had me wondering for a while. I don't know. Anyway how could you\n go about making her remember?\"\n\n\n \"Throw a crisis, some situation at her, I guess.\"", "\"You flew her from earth until we went into suspension,\" he said.\n\n\n \"I can't remember when,\" I said. I held the trembling girl against me,\n shaking my head.", "\"Your name is David Corbin. Do you understand?\"", "\"What do you mean? What can't you remember?\" he asked. He stood up\n slowly, edging around towards the door. I didn't want to fight him. I", "We were out of luck with the girl. She woke up and she was frightened.\n We questioned her and she was coherent but she couldn't remember. I\n tried to smile as I sat on the cot, wondering what she was thinking.", "\"Can I?\" I asked.\nWe set up a temporary plan of action. Paul took Karen to the laboratory\n in an effort to help her remember her job. Carl went back to divide the\n rations.", "and chemicals, testing equipment in compact drawers, but nothing marked\n for me. I wondered if I was an engineer or a pilot, or perhaps a doctor\n sent along to safeguard the others. Complete amnesia would have been", "\"You said I had flown this ship. You meant before this suspension.\"\n\n\n \"Yes. That's why we can cross space to a near star.\"\n\n\n \"How long ago was it?\"", "The question frightened her. \"Should I? I feel so strange. Give me a\n minute to think.\"\n\n\n I let her sit up slowly. \"Do you know your name?\"", "I pressed the button by the cot. The red lights blinked out as I stood\n in patient attention, trying to outguess the voice. I recalled a\n phrase ... some words about precaution.\n\n\n Precaution against forgetting.", "I knew more of the puzzle. Something was wrong. After the first shock\n of looking out, I accepted the fact that I was in a space ship, yet I", "\"Your name is David Corbin.\"", "\"How do you feel?\" I asked.\n\n\n Her face was a mask of wide-eyed fear as she shook her head.\n\n\n \"Can you remember?\"", "\"You did. Even for a sick man that was pretty fast,\" he laughed.\n\n\n \"I can think again, John. I know who I am,\" I shouted. I threw my arms\n around his massive shoulders. \"You did it.\"", "\"Tell me what to do,\" I shouted wildly. I hammered the hard metal until\n the pain in my hands made me stop.\n\n\n \"I can't remember what to do.\"", "\"Your name is David Corbin. If you understand, press button A on your\n right.\"", "\"Your name is David Corbin. If you understand, press button A on your\n right.\"", "\"You don't know me?\"\n\n\n \"No.\"\n\n\n \"Are you serious?\"\n\n\n \"Yes, yes. I don't know why but it's happened.\"" ], [ "\"She's in the lab. I don't think that will do much good. She's got to\n be shocked out of a mental state like that.\"", "\"Can I?\" I asked.\nWe set up a temporary plan of action. Paul took Karen to the laboratory\n in an effort to help her remember her job. Carl went back to divide the\n rations.", "\"That had me wondering for a while. I don't know. Anyway how could you\n go about making her remember?\"\n\n\n \"Throw a crisis, some situation at her, I guess.\"", "The question frightened her. \"Should I? I feel so strange. Give me a\n minute to think.\"\n\n\n I let her sit up slowly. \"Do you know your name?\"", "Carl caught my eye. \"Captain, we save this time without aging at all.\n It puts us near a calculated destination.\"\n\n\n \"We've lost our lifetime.\" It was Karen. She had been crying silently\n while we talked.", "\"What about me?\"\n\n\n \"Thirty.\" He stared at the panel in thought for a minutes. \"What about\n shock treatment? It sounds risky.\"", "\"How do you feel?\" I asked.\n\n\n Her face was a mask of wide-eyed fear as she shook her head.\n\n\n \"Can you remember?\"", "that mean ... in time ... in time. I went back down the passageway.\nThe fourth small room was the same. Except for the woman. She lay on a", "\"I wish we knew. What about her—Dr. Thiesen?\"", "\"Dr. Thiesen is an expert, trained for this,\" he said.\n\n\n I looked at her. She looked anything but like a chemist.", "\"I guess you're right,\" he said slowly. \"She's trained to administer\n the suspension on the return trip.\"\n\n\n I let my breath out slowly. \"I didn't think about that.\"", "We were out of luck with the girl. She woke up and she was frightened.\n We questioned her and she was coherent but she couldn't remember. I\n tried to smile as I sat on the cot, wondering what she was thinking.", "all, depending on a blind helpless fool who didn't know their names or\n the reason for that dependence. I sat beside her on the cot until I\n could stand it no longer.", "\"What—made you—think of that,\" I asked weakly.\n\n\n \"Shock treatment.\"\n\n\n \"I must have acted on instinct.\"", "transparent break in the smooth wall. Karen Thiesen was a chemist, now\n frightened and trying to remember.", "\"No. Carl is here too. His stomach flopped again but he's okay. What\n about food. We're supposed to be checked before we eat.\"\n\n\n \"We'll have to go ahead without it. Any change?\"", "\"What's happened to me?\" she asked.\n\n\n The dark haired man came into the room, silent and watchful. My\n companion motioned to him. \"Get Carl and meet us in Control.\"", "\"Don't think about it,\" Paul said. \"We can still pull this out all\n right if you don't lose your nerve.\"\n\n\n \"What are we to do?\" she asked.", "\"I wish I knew what you were doing,\" I said savagely.\n\n\n \"Give it time.\"\n\n\n \"We can't spare any, can we?\" I asked.", "I rolled back his eyelid. The eyelid remained open until I closed it\n and went on. Another room ... another man ... another stranger. This" ], [ "\"John did it. He hit the alarm figuring I would react. Listen, Paul. Is\n any one hurt?\"", "\"It's been dead ahead for hours,\" he grunted. I leaned over and threw\n the intercom to open. \"This is control. Listen ... everyone. I'm over\n it. Disregard the warning siren ... we were testing the ship.\"", "We were out of luck with the girl. She woke up and she was frightened.\n We questioned her and she was coherent but she couldn't remember. I\n tried to smile as I sat on the cot, wondering what she was thinking.", "I was past the rooms when the horn blasted through the corridor. I\n turned automatically with the sound, pushing against the rail, towards\n the control room. Deep in my mind I could see danger, and without", "A flat, illogical voice had instructed me to revive these men. I\n shivered in spite of the warmth of the room, studying the black box", "The second man, the dark haired one, opened his eyes and recognized us.\n He asked questions in rapid fire excitement. The third man, the tall", "all, depending on a blind helpless fool who didn't know their names or\n the reason for that dependence. I sat beside her on the cot until I\n could stand it no longer.", "I stood by the man for long minutes. Finally it came. He stirred\n restlessly, closing his hands into fists. The deep chest rose and fell", "He held up his hand. \"We'd better wait, sir. Everything was supposed to\n be all right on this end. First you, then Carl, sick to his stomach.\"", "Back in the room where I had awakened, I touched the panel with the\n glowing eyes. It had asked me if I understood. Now it must tell me why", "questioning why I knew I had to be at Control when the sound knifed\n through the stillness. John was shouting as I thrust my way into the\n room.", "\"I don't have to tell you I was scared as hell. I wish you could have\n seen your face, the look in your eyes when I woke up.\"\n\n\n \"I wouldn't want to wake up like that again.\"", "\"I know. It's the only thing I could think of. Why didn't everyone\n react the same?\"", "The man looked at me and I nodded. \"We'll be there in a moment. I'm\n afraid we've got trouble.\"", "The voice snapped off and I laughed hysterically. None of it had made\n sense, and I cursed whatever madness had put me here.", "She tightened up in my arms. \"Yes. It's....\" She looked at us for help,\n frightened by the lack of clothing we wore, by the bleak room. Her eyes", "I held my bruised hands to my mouth, and I knew that was all the\n message there was. In blind panic I pushed away from the panel.", "body, found the wide strap that held me and fumbled with the buckle.\n I threw it off and pushed myself up from the hard cot. I heard myself\n yell in surprise as I floated up towards the light overhead.", "\"What's happened to me?\" she asked.\n\n\n The dark haired man came into the room, silent and watchful. My\n companion motioned to him. \"Get Carl and meet us in Control.\"", "I pressed the button by the cot. The red lights blinked out as I stood\n in patient attention, trying to outguess the voice. I recalled a\n phrase ... some words about precaution.\n\n\n Precaution against forgetting." ] ]
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[ "Why did the first policeman smirk at Brian’s door?", "Why was the woman in Brian’s apartment?", "Why did Pete send the rebels to break Brian out of jail?", "What would have happened if Brian didn’t escape with Crystal?", "What advantage did the rebels have over the Venus Consolidated police?", "What is the meaning of “laconically” as used in this passage?", "What caused the avalanche of rocks in the cavern?", "What lesson did Brian learn from his experience?" ]
[ [ "He recognized Brian as the boss of Venus Consolidated Research Organization.", "He saw a woman in the bedroom.", "He was sorry for getting Brian out of the bathtub.", "He saw that Brian’s towel was open and not covering his body." ], [ "She was drawing his bath and cleaning his apartment.", "Pete set them up on a date.", "She was hiding from the police.", "She worked in his vitamin research lab." ], [ "Pete believed in the rebel cause.", "Pete felt bad since it was his fault Brian was in jail.", "Pete would do anything to help his boss.", "Brian told Pete that he wanted to get out of jail." ], [ "Brian would have given Pete extra work to punish him for the prank.", "Brian would have turned in Crystal and the rebels.", "The police would have thought Brian was working with the rebels.", "Brian would have continued his vitamin research." ], [ "Fast atmospheric ships", "Detailed knowledge of the area", "Secret supporters on the inside", "Stashes of weaponry in caves" ], [ "Elaborately", "Windy", "Concisely", "Deeply" ], [ "An atomite bomb.", "A chemical reaction with the ships’ exhaust.", "The vibrations of the advancing police.", "Vibrations from the ships’ exhaust." ], [ "That Serono Zeburzac was a rebel insider.", "That Venus Consolidated served the best interests of the planet.", "That the Venus Consolidated police weren’t honest.", "That the rebels built mines as escape routes from the police." ] ]
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[ [ "Brian closed the door in puzzlement. What the devil had that flat-foot\n been smirking about? Well, maybe he could get his bath now.", "\"Hello.\" The voice matched the calm alertness of a pair of deep-blue\n eyes. Brian just stared at her in numbed fascination. That was what the\n policeman had meant with his insinuating smirk.", "The door opened a little.\n\n\n \"Well, good-by now.\" The girl said sweetly. \"Remember me to the police\n force.\"", "Retaining the towel with one hand he inched the door cautiously open.\n\n\n \"What the devil—\" He stopped abruptly at the sight of a policeman's\n uniform.", "Brian clambered out of the ship and glanced at the glowing points\n in the rock where the police were cutting their way through outside", "\"Well, you can check out; I haven't got any blasted rebels in here.\"\n The policeman's face hardened, then relaxed knowingly.", "mouth all set for a withering barrage, but he didn't get a chance. Four\n police constables and a sergeant swarmed into the room, shoving him\n away from the door.", "Crystal screamed. \"Brian! There's more police cutting in around the\n entrance.\"", "\"Oh—I see,\" Brian said weakly and a few moments later he really did\n see. Two big, fast, green ships, carrying the insignia of the Venus\n Consolidated police, cruised suddenly out from a mountain air station.", "it and ripped away half a wing. It plunged down in flames with the\n white flowers of half a dozen parachutes blossoming around it. Brian\n watched in horror as the police ship came deliberately about. They", "\"Down this way, it's a short cut.\" Brian led the way to a heavily\n barred side door.", "The electric eye tripped a screaming alarm, but the broken key in\n Brian's hands opened the complicated lock in a matter of seconds. They\n were outside the jail on a side street, the door closed and the lock\n jammed immovably behind them.", "Brian's eyes almost popped out as he saw a gloved hand reach around\n the guard's neck and jam a rag over his nose and mouth. Swift shadows", "Brian almost got to his feet when another wild maneuver hurled him back\n to the floor. The police ship was right on their tail. The girl gunned", "\"Douse those lights,\" she shouted. \"The police are outside.\"\n\n\n A tall, lean man with bulbous eyes and a face like a startled horse,\n rushed up to Crystal.", "Brian felt as though something had kicked him in the stomach. She was\n right! He had to get out now. He wouldn't be able to explain this away.\n\n\n \"Give me that key,\" he hissed and grabbed for it.", "Brian Hanson, Chief of Research for Venus Consolidated, as dignified as\n possible in a damp bathrobe, glared out through the bars at a slightly\n bewildered Pete Brent.", "\"This way,\" he snarled and took the lead. He knew the ground plan of\n this jail perfectly. He had a moment of wonder at the crazy spectacle", "Brian felt as though his stomach had fallen down around his ankles\n and was tying his feet up. He couldn't move. The door was jammed shut", "\"Well, what the dickens does he look like?\" Brian asked doubtfully.\n\n\n \"I don't know, but his left hand is missing. Dad did some good shooting\n before he died,\" she said grimly." ], [ "Brian felt as though something had kicked him in the stomach. She was\n right! He had to get out now. He wouldn't be able to explain this away.\n\n\n \"Give me that key,\" he hissed and grabbed for it.", "\"Hello.\" The voice matched the calm alertness of a pair of deep-blue\n eyes. Brian just stared at her in numbed fascination. That was what the\n policeman had meant with his insinuating smirk.", "\"Let's get away! I can smell them burning,\" she shuddered and covered\n her face with her hands.\n\n\n Brian grabbed her and shook her.", "The girl swung her legs out of bed and Brian blinked; she was fully\n dressed. The snug, zippered overall suit she wore did nothing to\n conceal the fact that she was a female. He wrapped his bathrobe\n austerely around him.", "Brian closed the door in puzzlement. What the devil had that flat-foot\n been smirking about? Well, maybe he could get his bath now.", "Brian felt as though his stomach had fallen down around his ankles\n and was tying his feet up. He couldn't move. The door was jammed shut", "Brian almost got to his feet when another wild maneuver hurled him back\n to the floor. The police ship was right on their tail. The girl gunned", "Brian was startled at the icy hardness of her voice.", "Sirens wailed. The alarm was out! The street suddenly burst into\n brilliance as the floodlights snapped on. Brian faltered to a stop and\n Crystal James pushed past him.", "Brian struggled into a zippered overall suit as they followed a\n twisting, tortuous course for half an hour, switching from one tunnel", "Crystal screamed. \"Brian! There's more police cutting in around the\n entrance.\"", "\"Yes, you! If sending that damn blonde to my apartment and getting me\n arrested is your idea of a joke—\"", "\"Wait a minute, how do we get out of here?\" Brian demanded.\n\n\n \"Through that hole up there,\" the girl said matter-of-factly.", "\"What are we stopping here for?\" Brian demanded. \"We've got to get\n away.\"\n\n\n \"That's just what we're doing,\" Crystal snapped. \"Everybody out.\"", "Brian's eyes almost popped out as he saw a gloved hand reach around\n the guard's neck and jam a rag over his nose and mouth. Swift shadows", "Brian had had about enough. \"I'm not going anywhere to see anybody.\n Maybe you don't know who I am. You can't arrest me.\"", "\"She wuz in his bed when I seen her, sarge,\" one of the guards\n contributed. \"But she ain't there now.\"\n\n\n \"You don't think that I—\"", "\"Get out of here!\" he yelled and the door shut abruptly on a rippling\n burst of laughter. Damn women! It was getting so a man had to pack", "\"Down this way, it's a short cut.\" Brian led the way to a heavily\n barred side door.", "\"Where the dickens are we?\" Brian whispered hoarsely.\n\n\n \"Oh, you don't have to whisper, we're safe enough here. This is one of\n the air shafts leading down to the old mines.\"" ], [ "\"Somebody by the name of Pete Brent tipped us off that you were in\n trouble because of me. But don't worry, we're going to get you out.\"", "\"There's nothing to give away, you fool!\" Brian bellowed. \"I don't know\n anything about any damn rebels. All I want is to get out of here—\"", "The electric eye tripped a screaming alarm, but the broken key in\n Brian's hands opened the complicated lock in a matter of seconds. They\n were outside the jail on a side street, the door closed and the lock\n jammed immovably behind them.", "Brian Hanson, Chief of Research for Venus Consolidated, as dignified as\n possible in a damp bathrobe, glared out through the bars at a slightly\n bewildered Pete Brent.", "\"Just ask for Myrtle.\" Pete Brent's joking words flashed back to him.\n Now he got it. This was probably the young fool's idea of a joke. He'd\n soon fix that.", "behind them, they'd have to surrender and there'd be no explaining\n this break. He started mentally cursing Pete Brent, when a projector", "Brian Hanson looked disgustedly at Pete Brent, his lanky assistant.\n That was the first sign of animation he had displayed all day.", "\"What are we stopping here for?\" Brian demanded. \"We've got to get\n away.\"\n\n\n \"That's just what we're doing,\" Crystal snapped. \"Everybody out.\"", "The rebels piled out and the cars pulled away to become innocuous parts\n of the traffic stream. The rebels seemed to know where they were going\n and that gave them the edge on Brian. They followed Crystal down into\n the garage's repair pit.", "He started after her. Two surface transport vehicles waited around the\n corner. Brian and the rebels bundled into them and took away with a", "of himself, the fair-haired boy of Venus Consolidated, in his flapping\n bathrobe, leading a band of escaping rebels out of the company's best\n jail.", "\"Quit stallin', bud. You know who. That female rebel who was in here.\"\n\n\n \"Rebel? You're crazy! That was just ... Pete said ... rebel? Did you\n say rebel?\"", "He snapped two of the coigns off in the lock and went to work with the\n rest of the key. He had designed these escape-proof locks himself. In a\n few seconds the door swung open and they were fleeing silently down the\n jail corridor.", "with Pete. He'd appreciate it.\" He got the impression that the girl was\n struggling heroically to refrain from laughing and that didn't help his\n dignity any. He strode into the bathroom, slammed the door and climbed", "\"This way,\" he snarled and took the lead. He knew the ground plan of\n this jail perfectly. He had a moment of wonder at the crazy spectacle", "\"Gotcha, chief,\" Brent whispered understandingly. \"I'll see if I can\n pass the word along.\"\n\n\n \"Come here, you idiot!\" Brian screamed after his erstwhile assistant.", "\"The dirty, murdering rats!\" Brian's voice ripped out in a fury of\n outrage. \"They didn't have a chance!\"", "a gun with him or something. And Pete Brent. He thought with grim\n satisfaction of the unending extra work that was going to occur around\n the laboratory from now on. He sank back into the soothing liquid", "Brian clambered out of the ship and glanced at the glowing points\n in the rock where the police were cutting their way through outside", "\"Down this way, it's a short cut.\" Brian led the way to a heavily\n barred side door." ], [ "\"What are we stopping here for?\" Brian demanded. \"We've got to get\n away.\"\n\n\n \"That's just what we're doing,\" Crystal snapped. \"Everybody out.\"", "Crystal screamed. \"Brian! There's more police cutting in around the\n entrance.\"", "Brian and Crystal struggled painfully to solid ground. Crystal gazed\n with a feeling of awe at the devastated mountainside.\n\n\n \"How did you do it?\"", "Huge boulders leaped and smashed through the matted bush around them.\n Crystal went down as the ground slipped from under her. Brian grabbed", "\"Let's get away! I can smell them burning,\" she shuddered and covered\n her face with her hands.\n\n\n Brian grabbed her and shook her.", "Sirens wailed. The alarm was out! The street suddenly burst into\n brilliance as the floodlights snapped on. Brian faltered to a stop and\n Crystal James pushed past him.", "Brian felt as though something had kicked him in the stomach. She was\n right! He had to get out now. He wouldn't be able to explain this away.\n\n\n \"Give me that key,\" he hissed and grabbed for it.", "\"Walk,\" Crystal said laconically. She led the way as they started\n scrambling through the jungle up the mountainside.\n\n\n \"Where are we heading for?\" Brian grunted as he struggled along.", "The rebels piled out and the cars pulled away to become innocuous parts\n of the traffic stream. The rebels seemed to know where they were going\n and that gave them the edge on Brian. They followed Crystal down into\n the garage's repair pit.", "a dead silence. A score or more followed them without any attempt at\n concealment. Then Brian and Crystal cut loose with the drives of the\n two ships.", "\"That's what you think,\" Crystal snapped. \"McHague's legend got my\n father and he'll get all of us unless we run the whole company right\n off the planet.\"", "\"Run!\" Brian shoved her and they plunged madly through the thick tangle\n of jungle away from the slide.", "\"They got him!\" Crystal's voice was a moan. \"Oh, the fool, the fool!\"", "Crystal led the way as they fled down the escape tunnel. The roaring\n crash of falling rock was a continuous, increasing avalanche of sound\n in the cavern behind them.", "Crystal's answer was to yank the ship into a rocketing climb. The\n police were watching for that. The big ship roared up after them.\n\n\n \"Just follow along, suckers,\" Crystal invited grimly.", "\"Wait a minute, how do we get out of here?\" Brian demanded.\n\n\n \"Through that hole up there,\" the girl said matter-of-factly.", "An aërial torpedo exploded in front of the rebel ship. Crystal's face\n set in grim lines as she pulled the ship up in a screaming climb. Brian\n got up off the floor.", "\"The dirty, murdering rats!\" Brian's voice ripped out in a fury of\n outrage. \"They didn't have a chance!\"", "The electric eye tripped a screaming alarm, but the broken key in\n Brian's hands opened the complicated lock in a matter of seconds. They\n were outside the jail on a side street, the door closed and the lock\n jammed immovably behind them.", "\"You must be mistak—\" He slumped to the floor as Crystal threw the\n ship into a mad, rolling spin. A tremendous crash thundered close\n astern." ], [ "roar. The chase wasn't organized yet, and they soon lost themselves in\n the orderly rush of Venus City traffic.\nThe two carloads of rebels cruised nonchalantly past the Administration", "\"But, girl, they're just Venus Consolidated police. They haven't got\n any authority to shoot anyone.\"", "He heard there had been killings, but that was nonsense. Venus\n Consolidated police had only powers of arrest. Anything involving", "They're about the oldest family on Venus. Police have been after her\n for months; she's a rebel and she's sure been raising plenty of hell\n around here. She got in and blew out the main communications control", "\"Oh—I see,\" Brian said weakly and a few moments later he really did\n see. Two big, fast, green ships, carrying the insignia of the Venus\n Consolidated police, cruised suddenly out from a mountain air station.", "\"That's something you newcomers don't know anything about. This whole\n area was worked out long before Venus Consolidated came to the planet.\n These old tunnels run all under the city.\"", "The rebels piled out and the cars pulled away to become innocuous parts\n of the traffic stream. The rebels seemed to know where they were going\n and that gave them the edge on Brian. They followed Crystal down into\n the garage's repair pit.", "of himself, the fair-haired boy of Venus Consolidated, in his flapping\n bathrobe, leading a band of escaping rebels out of the company's best\n jail.", "down in a terminal velocity dive, heading for the safety of the lower\n valley mists. The heavier police ship, with its higher wing-loading,\n could not match the maneuver. The rebel craft plunged down through the", "He started after her. Two surface transport vehicles waited around the\n corner. Brian and the rebels bundled into them and took away with a", "\"You sound like the only good rebel left. We can try it, anyway.\"\nThey ran two ships out into the middle of the cavern, gunned them\n around and jockeyed them into position—not a moment too soon.", "The other rebels waited uncertainly, but not for long. There was the\n crescendoing roar of ships in a dive followed by the terrific crash of\n an explosion.", "He paused and let his eyes lift to the buildings that surrounded the\n compound. This was the administrative heart of Venus City. Out here,", "Half a dozen police showed in brief silhouette as they slipped\n cautiously into the cavern, guns ready, expecting resistance. They met", "Crystal's answer was to yank the ship into a rocketing climb. The\n police were watching for that. The big ship roared up after them.\n\n\n \"Just follow along, suckers,\" Crystal invited grimly.", "\"I should say not. Serono Zeburzac, head of McHague's secret police\n will be after us now. We won't be safe anywhere near Venus City.\"", "Brian almost got to his feet when another wild maneuver hurled him back\n to the floor. The police ship was right on their tail. The girl gunned", "\"Well, you can check out; I haven't got any blasted rebels in here.\"\n The policeman's face hardened, then relaxed knowingly.", "responsible for the prosperity of this vigorous, young world. Venus\n Consolidated had built up this city and practically everything else\n that amounted to anything on this planet. True, there had been others,", "beam slashed viciously by him. These guards weren't fooling! He heard\n a gasping grunt of pain as one of the rebels went down. They were\n shooting to kill." ], [ "\"Walk,\" Crystal said laconically. She led the way as they started\n scrambling through the jungle up the mountainside.\n\n\n \"Where are we heading for?\" Brian grunted as he struggled along.", "\"Don't get excited,\" Crystal told him in a dead, flat voice. \"That's\n just normal practice. If you'd stuck your nose out of your laboratory\n once in a while, you'd have heard of these things.\"", "in precisely seven minutes, four and four-fifths seconds. He undressed\n and climbed into the tub, relaxing luxuriously in the exhilaration of\n irradiated water.", "\"Lay off, you crazy apes!\" he yelled furiously, but the pounding\n continued steadily. He struggled out of the bath, wrapped his damp", "Hanson turned away from the door and froze in amazement. Through the\n open door of his bedroom he could see his bed neatly turned down as\n it should be, but the outline under the counterpane and the luxuriant", "Brian slowly acquired a complexion suitable for painting fire plugs.\n\n\n \"Shut up and throw me my dressing gown.\" He gritted.", "with Pete. He'd appreciate it.\" He got the impression that the girl was\n struggling heroically to refrain from laughing and that didn't help his\n dignity any. He strode into the bathroom, slammed the door and climbed", "\"Well, what do you think?\" he burst out angrily. \"I'm going to finish\n my bath and I'd suggest you go down to the laboratory and hold hands", "\"I am, but you're not,\" Hanson told him grimly. \"Get your notes\n straightened up. Run those centrifuge tests and set up the still so we\n can get at that vitamin count early in the morning.\"", "that kept his body hard and resilient in spite of long hours spent in\n the laboratory. As he opened the door of his apartment he heard the\n water running into his bath. Perfect timing. He was making that walk", "\"Well, what the dickens does he look like?\" Brian asked doubtfully.\n\n\n \"I don't know, but his left hand is missing. Dad did some good shooting\n before he died,\" she said grimly.", "\"Get out of here!\" he yelled and the door shut abruptly on a rippling\n burst of laughter. Damn women! It was getting so a man had to pack", "Brian closed the door in puzzlement. What the devil had that flat-foot\n been smirking about? Well, maybe he could get his bath now.", "\"Well, you can check out; I haven't got any blasted rebels in here.\"\n The policeman's face hardened, then relaxed knowingly.", "He snapped two of the coigns off in the lock and went to work with the\n rest of the key. He had designed these escape-proof locks himself. In a\n few seconds the door swung open and they were fleeing silently down the\n jail corridor.", "Brian Hanson looked disgustedly at Pete Brent, his lanky assistant.\n That was the first sign of animation he had displayed all day.", "alone, he let his only known emotion sweep through him, pride. He had\n an important role in the building of this great new city. As head of\n the Venus Consolidated Research Organization, he was in large part", "\"Down this way, it's a short cut.\" Brian led the way to a heavily\n barred side door.", "mouth all set for a withering barrage, but he didn't get a chance. Four\n police constables and a sergeant swarmed into the room, shoving him\n away from the door.", "The door opened a little.\n\n\n \"Well, good-by now.\" The girl said sweetly. \"Remember me to the police\n force.\"" ], [ "Crystal led the way as they fled down the escape tunnel. The roaring\n crash of falling rock was a continuous, increasing avalanche of sound\n in the cavern behind them.", "They emerged from the tunnel on the face of the mountain, several\n hundred yards to the east of the cavern entrance. The ground shook and\n heaved beneath them.\n\n\n \"The whole side of the mountain's sliding,\" Crystal screamed.", "the line of the exhaust flames. The pulsating thunder in the cavern\n crescendoed to an intolerable pitch. A huge mass of stalactites crashed\n to the floor.", "The tunnel emerged in a huge cavern that gloomed darkly away in every\n direction. The towering, massive remains of old machinery, eroded and\n rotten with age crouched like ancient, watching skeletons.", "seemed to catch up to the other and built to an aching pulsation. In\n a moment the whole mass of air in the cavern hit the frequency with a\n subtle, intangible thunder of vibration.", "huge, brilliantly lighted cavern and settled to a perfect landing. Men\n came running. Crystal tumbled out of her ship.", "She fumbled in the darkness a moment, then a darker patch showed as\n a door swung open in the side of the pit. They filed into the solid", "\"Wait, you fool. They may not even have seen us.\" But he was gone,\n running toward a group of ships lined up at the end of the cavern.", "They crisped and twisted, cooked to scorched horrors before they\n fell. A burst of thick, greasy smoke rushed out of the cavern. Two of", "joined the roaring rush of the slide. They were tumbled irresistibly\n downward, riding the edge of the slide for terrifying minutes till\n it stilled and left them bruised and shaken in a tangle of torn", "\"You sound like the only good rebel left. We can try it, anyway.\"\nThey ran two ships out into the middle of the cavern, gunned them\n around and jockeyed them into position—not a moment too soon.", "Huge boulders leaped and smashed through the matted bush around them.\n Crystal went down as the ground slipped from under her. Brian grabbed", "Half a dozen police showed in brief silhouette as they slipped\n cautiously into the cavern, guns ready, expecting resistance. They met", "blackness after her and the door thudded shut. The beam of a torch\n stabbed through the darkness and they clambered precariously down a\n steep, steel stairway.", "\"Lay off, you crazy apes!\" he yelled furiously, but the pounding\n continued steadily. He struggled out of the bath, wrapped his damp", "\"We could slow them down some by swinging a couple of those ships\n around so their rocket exhausts sweep the entrance to the cavern,\"\n Brian suggested doubtfully. She looked at him steadily.", "\"You must be mistak—\" He slumped to the floor as Crystal threw the\n ship into a mad, rolling spin. A tremendous crash thundered close\n astern.", "The other rebels waited uncertainly, but not for long. There was the\n crescendoing roar of ships in a dive followed by the terrific crash of\n an explosion.", "\"It's a matter of harmonics,\" Brian explained. \"If you hit the right\n vibratory combination, you can shake anything down. But now that we've\n made a mess of the old homestead, what do we do?\"", "slide. The dust was settling away. A flock of brilliant blue, gliding\n lizards barking in raucous terror, fled down the valley. Then they were\n gone and the primeval silence settled back into place." ], [ "Brian felt as though something had kicked him in the stomach. She was\n right! He had to get out now. He wouldn't be able to explain this away.\n\n\n \"Give me that key,\" he hissed and grabbed for it.", "Brian struggled into a zippered overall suit as they followed a\n twisting, tortuous course for half an hour, switching from one tunnel", "Brian had had about enough. \"I'm not going anywhere to see anybody.\n Maybe you don't know who I am. You can't arrest me.\"", "Brian felt as though his stomach had fallen down around his ankles\n and was tying his feet up. He couldn't move. The door was jammed shut", "\"\nPhew!\n\" Brian gasped. \"Well, we got away that time. How in thunder\n can you do it?\"", "The sides of the gap rushed in on the tips of the stubby wings. Brian\n braced himself for the crash, but it didn't come. At the last possible", "\"Let's get away! I can smell them burning,\" she shuddered and covered\n her face with her hands.\n\n\n Brian grabbed her and shook her.", "\"Gotcha, chief,\" Brent whispered understandingly. \"I'll see if I can\n pass the word along.\"\n\n\n \"Come here, you idiot!\" Brian screamed after his erstwhile assistant.", "\"The dirty, murdering rats!\" Brian's voice ripped out in a fury of\n outrage. \"They didn't have a chance!\"", "the mountain while Brian struggled to get his internal economy back\n into some semblance of order.", "\"There's nothing to give away, you fool!\" Brian bellowed. \"I don't know\n anything about any damn rebels. All I want is to get out of here—\"", "Brian closed the door in puzzlement. What the devil had that flat-foot\n been smirking about? Well, maybe he could get his bath now.", "\"Oh—I see,\" Brian said weakly and a few moments later he really did\n see. Two big, fast, green ships, carrying the insignia of the Venus\n Consolidated police, cruised suddenly out from a mountain air station.", "\"What are we stopping here for?\" Brian demanded. \"We've got to get\n away.\"\n\n\n \"That's just what we're doing,\" Crystal snapped. \"Everybody out.\"", "\"Run!\" Brian shoved her and they plunged madly through the thick tangle\n of jungle away from the slide.", "Brian's eyes almost popped out as he saw a gloved hand reach around\n the guard's neck and jam a rag over his nose and mouth. Swift shadows", "\"Pipe down there, bud,\" a guard's voice cut in chillingly.\n\n\n Brian retired to his cell bunk and clutched his aching head in\n frustrated fury.", "it and ripped away half a wing. It plunged down in flames with the\n white flowers of half a dozen parachutes blossoming around it. Brian\n watched in horror as the police ship came deliberately about. They", "Brian and Crystal struggled painfully to solid ground. Crystal gazed\n with a feeling of awe at the devastated mountainside.\n\n\n \"How did you do it?\"", "\"Well, what the dickens does he look like?\" Brian asked doubtfully.\n\n\n \"I don't know, but his left hand is missing. Dad did some good shooting\n before he died,\" she said grimly." ] ]
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[ "Where did Mia grow up?", "What is the Trial?", "What happened to Earth?", "What is the name of the first person to talk to Mia on Tintera?", "What is NOT a reason that Mia pulled out her pistol the first time?", "What did Mia have for siblings?", "Why did Mia begin to feel defeated and tired?", "What DIDN'T Mia learn at the campsite she located?" ]
[ [ "Earth", "a space ship", "Tintera", "The Third Level" ], [ "your chance to find a suitable partner", "your first flight away from Earth", "proving your ability to survive on your own", "defending your right to have children" ], [ "People divided into small, vicious colonies", "Overpopulation caused a war", "People discovered more planets and chose to move", "Everyone chose to live in space" ], [ "Jimmy", "Ninc", "Horst", "Losel" ], [ "She felt threatened by the group of men", "They made her feel uncomfortable", "She couldn't see all of the men at the same time", "Someone was about to pull a gun on her" ], [ "a brother and a sister", "no siblings", "two sisters", "one brother" ], [ "She was out of food", "She'd been riding for over a week", "She missed her family", "She didn't understand the planet she was dropped in" ], [ "Why the ship flew over her head", "People grow old and gray on this planet", "The Trial kids weren't welcome on Tintera", "Horst keeps his animals in the pen" ] ]
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[ [ "My name is Mia Havero. I'm fourteen, of course, or I wouldn't be", "had two or three brothers and sisters, but it didn't strike me until\n that moment that it wouldn't even seem out of the ordinary to these\n kids. Isn't that horrible?", "Don't think I was helpless. I'm hell on wheels. They don't let us grow\n for fourteen years and then kick us out to die. They prepare us. They", "On the third day, I found the road. I brought Ninc down off the\n hillside, losing sight of the road in the trees, and then reaching", "kids because they never tell you anything about the place they're going\n to drop you. All I knew was the name. I wouldn't have known that much\n if Daddy weren't Chairman of the Council.", "nice little girl, and to get rid of the kid, she sent her on a phony\n errand into the deep dark woods at nightfall. I could appreciate the", "About the time I finished eating, and before it grew dark, the old man\n I had seen earlier in the day drove his wagon in. He fascinated me. He\n had white hair, something I had read about in stories but had never\n seen before.", "When I was nine, my Daddy gave me a painted wooden doll that my\n great-grandmother brought from Earth. The thing is that inside it,", "He said what I expected. \"Mia, do you want to go partners if we can get\n together when we get down?\"", "The old man had just finished and they were starting to drag the kids\n off to bed when there was a commotion on the road at the edge of the", "We have a place in the Ship like that—the Third Level—but it's only a\n thousand square miles and any time it gets on your nerves you can go up\n a level or down a level and be back in civilization.", "Venie Morlock has got a crush on Jimmy D., and when she saw me start\n getting ready to go, she began to check her gear, too. At our next", "I rode slowly in, looking all around, missing nothing. The town was all\n stone, wood and brick. Out of date. Out of time, really. There were", "It was about an old witch named Baba Yaga who lived in the forest in\n a house that stood on chicken legs. She was the nasty stepmother of a", "I set up camp and ate my dinner. In the wagon closest to me were a man,\n his wife and their three children. The kids were running around and", "But that wasn't what bothered me. It was the kids. My God! They\n swarmed. I saw a family come out of a house—a father and\nfour", "I came on my first travelers three hours later. I rounded a tree-lined\n bend, ducking an overhanging branch, and pulled Ninc to a stop. There\n were five men on horseback herding a bunch of the ugliest creatures\n alive.", "By the time I came out on the other side, I was sick. My hands were\n cold and sweaty and my head was spinning, and I wanted to kick Ninc to\n a gallop.", "Horst and his buddies assumed I was a boy. It wasn't flattering; but\n I decided I'd not tell anybody different until I found what made the\n clocks tick on this planet.", "telling this. I'm short, dark and scrawny, though I don't expect that\n scrawniness to last much longer. Mother is very good looking. In the" ], [ "The planet chosen for our Trial was called Tintera. The last contact\n the Ship had had with it—and we were the ones who dropped them—was", "\"The courts won't let you get away with this,\" I said. I'd passed\n a courthouse in the town with a carved motto over the doors: EQUAL", "reached each other, but I kept going. He had to come around and follow\n me. I believe in judging a person by his face. A man can't help the", "I had a good month for Trial. My birthday is in November—too close to\n Year End Holiday for my taste, but this year it was all right. It was", "face he owns, but he can help the expression he wears on it. If a man\n looks mean, I generally believe that he is. This one looked mean. That\n was why I kept riding.", "Don't think I was helpless. I'm hell on wheels. They don't let us grow\n for fourteen years and then kick us out to die. They prepare us. They", "I put this episode in the \"file and hold for analysis\" section in my\n mind and rode on, feeling good. I think I even giggled once. Sometimes\n I even convince myself that I'm hell on wheels.\nIII", "When we reached Tintera, they started dropping us. We swung over the\n sea from the morning side and then dropped low over gray-green forested", "the Ship. There's sense behind it. It means that everybody on the Ship\n is a person who can take care of himself if he has to. Daddy says that\n something has to be done in a closed society to keep the population", "\"Boy, boy. Don't talk about the courts. I be doing you a favor. I be\n taking what I can use of your gear, but I be letting you go. You go to", "I came on my first travelers three hours later. I rounded a tree-lined\n bend, ducking an overhanging branch, and pulled Ninc to a stop. There\n were five men on horseback herding a bunch of the ugliest creatures\n alive.", "to do if he pleased. He examined his hand. There was enough moonlight\n for that. \"I ought to club you anyway,\" he said.", "For the first time since I landed on Tintera, I felt\nreally\nfrightened. There was too much going on that I didn't understand. I", "On the third day, I found the road. I brought Ninc down off the\n hillside, losing sight of the road in the trees, and then reaching", "About the time I finished eating, and before it grew dark, the old man\n I had seen earlier in the day drove his wagon in. He fascinated me. He\n had white hair, something I had read about in stories but had never\n seen before.", "\"Every time you open your mouth you shout that you be off one of the\n Ships,\" Horst said. \"That be enough. They already have one of you brats\n in jail in Forton.\"", "When nightfall came, they started a large fire. Everybody gathered\n around. There was singing for awhile, and then the father of the", "\"Where be you from?\" he asked.\n\n\n I pointed to the road behind us.\n\n\n \"And where be you going?\"\n\n\n I pointed ahead. No other way to go.", "By the time I came out on the other side, I was sick. My hands were\n cold and sweaty and my head was spinning, and I wanted to kick Ninc to\n a gallop.", "them now.\" I dug my heels into Ninc's sides and rode on. At the next\n bend I looked back and saw four of them holding their packhorses and" ], [ "But, no. They bred and they spread and they devoured everything in\n their path like a cancer. They gobbled up all the resources that Earth\n had and crowded and shoved one another until the final war came.", "The planet chosen for our Trial was called Tintera. The last contact\n the Ship had had with it—and we were the ones who dropped them—was", "What happened before, when people didn't use their heads and wound up\n blowing the Solar System apart, is something nobody should forget. The\n older people don't let us forget. But these people had, and that the\n Council should know.", "almost 150 years ago. No contact since. That had made the Council\n debate a little before they dropped us there, but they decided it was\n all right in the end. It didn't make any practical difference to us", "closed my eyes until it passed.\nThe first thing you learn in school is that if it weren't for idiot and\n criminal people like these, Earth would never have been destroyed. The", "actual dropping, the idea originated with the whole evac plan back on\n Earth. Considering how short a time it was in which the colonies were\n established, there was not time to set up industry, so they had to have", "When I was nine, my Daddy gave me a painted wooden doll that my\n great-grandmother brought from Earth. The thing is that inside it,", "It's no game we play. When we turn fourteen, they drop us on the\n nearest colonized planet and come back one month later. That may sound\n like fun to you, but a lot of us never come back alive.", "been on enough to know that. A planet is all right for a Mud-eater, but\n not for me.", "The first of the Great Ships was finished in 2025. One of the eight,\n as well as the two that were being built then, went up with everything", "else in the Solar System in 2041. In that sixteen years 112 colonies\n were planted. I don't know how many of those planets had animals that\ncould", "evacuation would never have had to take place, and eight billion people\n wouldn't have died. There wouldn't have\nbeen\neight billion people.", "We have a place in the Ship like that—the Third Level—but it's only a\n thousand square miles and any time it gets on your nerves you can go up\n a level or down a level and be back in civilization.", "DOWN TO THE WORLDS OF MEN\nBY ALEXEI PANSHIN\nThe ancient rule was sink or swim—swim\n\n in the miasma of a planet without", "because I never believed that I wouldn't. The thought that made me\n unhappy was that I would have to be on a planet for a whole month.\n Planets make me feel wretched.", "starting to ripple the tree leaves, I saw the scoutship high in the\n sky. The dying sun colored it a deep red. Back again? I wondered what\n had gone wrong.", "we wouldn't tell these Mud-eaters how, a scoutship is something that\n takes an advanced technology to build.\nI felt defeated and tired. Not much farther along the road, I came to", "I rode in a spiral search pattern during the next two days. I had three\n things in mind—stay alive, find people and find some of the others.", "everybody here spoke the same way. I'd never heard International\n English spoken any way but one, even on the planet Daddy made me visit\n with him.", "For the first time since I landed on Tintera, I felt\nreally\nfrightened. There was too much going on that I didn't understand. I" ], [ "For the first time since I landed on Tintera, I felt\nreally\nfrightened. There was too much going on that I didn't understand. I", "The planet chosen for our Trial was called Tintera. The last contact\n the Ship had had with it—and we were the ones who dropped them—was", "When we reached Tintera, they started dropping us. We swung over the\n sea from the morning side and then dropped low over gray-green forested", "My name is Mia Havero. I'm fourteen, of course, or I wouldn't be", "spring on Tintera, but it was December in the Ship, and after we got\n back we had five days of Holiday to celebrate. It gave me something to\n look forward to.", "I came on my first travelers three hours later. I rounded a tree-lined\n bend, ducking an overhanging branch, and pulled Ninc to a stop. There\n were five men on horseback herding a bunch of the ugliest creatures\n alive.", "reached each other, but I kept going. He had to come around and follow\n me. I believe in judging a person by his face. A man can't help the", "On the third day, I found the road. I brought Ninc down off the\n hillside, losing sight of the road in the trees, and then reaching", "He said what I expected. \"Mia, do you want to go partners if we can get\n together when we get down?\"", "\"Well, well. Horst, look who we have here,\" he called. It was the one\n who'd made the joke about me being beneath the notice of a Losel. He", "\"Every time you open your mouth you shout that you be off one of the\n Ships,\" Horst said. \"That be enough. They already have one of you brats\n in jail in Forton.\"", "nobody bothered to laugh at, and then we were all silent. I was feeling\n lost and just beginning to enjoy it when Jimmy Dentremont came over to", "The first night was hell, I guess because I'm not used to having the\n lights out. That's when you really start to feel lonely, being alone in", "About the time I finished eating, and before it grew dark, the old man\n I had seen earlier in the day drove his wagon in. He fascinated me. He\n had white hair, something I had read about in stories but had never\n seen before.", "When we were behind the pen and out of earshot of the fire, he stopped\n dragging me and dropped me in a heap. \"Make any noise,\" he said, \"and\n I'll hurt you.\"", "\"Shut up,\" I said, in as mean a voice as I could muster, and he did. It\n surprised me. I didn't think I sounded\nthat\nmean. I decided he just\n didn't trust the crazy kid not to shoot.", "It's no game we play. When we turn fourteen, they drop us on the\n nearest colonized planet and come back one month later. That may sound\n like fun to you, but a lot of us never come back alive.", "I waited. Then suddenly my arm was hit a numbing blow from behind\n and the gun went flying. Jack pounced after it and Horst said, \"Good\n enough,\" to the others who'd come up behind me.", "Don't think I was helpless. I'm hell on wheels. They don't let us grow\n for fourteen years and then kick us out to die. They prepare us. They", "The other one didn't move. \"Get going, Jack,\" Horst said in a menacing\n tone and they stood toe to toe for a long moment before Jack finally" ], [ "But I wasn't done yet. I was scared, but I still had the pistol under\n my jacket.\n\n\n Horst turned back to me and I said, \"You can't do this and get away\n with it.\"", "I whipped my sonic pistol out so fast that he was caught leaning over\n with the rifle half out. His jaw dropped. He knew what I held and he\n didn't want to be fried.", "and reached inside my jacket for my gun. Somebody grabbed me then from\n behind and pinned my arms to my side.", "Then he said, \"Pull a gun on me twice. Twice.\" He slapped me so hard\n that my ears rang. \"You dirty little punk.\"\n\n\n I said calmly, \"You big louse.\"", "\"Shut up,\" I said, in as mean a voice as I could muster, and he did. It\n surprised me. I didn't think I sounded\nthat\nmean. I decided he just\n didn't trust the crazy kid not to shoot.", "\"Why would they be doing that?\" I asked. I slipped my hand under my\n jacket.", "I waited. Then suddenly my arm was hit a numbing blow from behind\n and the gun went flying. Jack pounced after it and Horst said, \"Good\n enough,\" to the others who'd come up behind me.", "What the man did then surprised me. He said, \"I do think so,\" and\n reached for the rifle in his saddle boot.", "to do if he pleased. He examined his hand. There was enough moonlight\n for that. \"I ought to club you anyway,\" he said.", "Horst looked at it, then handed it back. \"Throw it away,\" he said.\n\n\n I leveled my gun at them—Hell on Wheels strikes again! I said, \"Hand\n that over to me.\"", "landing, I grabbed Ninc's reins and cut Venie out smoothly. It didn't\n have anything to do with Jimmy. I just couldn't stand to put off the\n bad moment any longer.", "When we were behind the pen and out of earshot of the fire, he stopped\n dragging me and dropped me in a heap. \"Make any noise,\" he said, \"and\n I'll hurt you.\"", "By the time I came out on the other side, I was sick. My hands were\n cold and sweaty and my head was spinning, and I wanted to kick Ninc to\n a gallop.", "That was a silly way to put it, but somehow it said more than if he'd\n threatened to break my arm or my head. It left him a latitude of things", "Venie Morlock has got a crush on Jimmy D., and when she saw me start\n getting ready to go, she began to check her gear, too. At our next", "I put this episode in the \"file and hold for analysis\" section in my\n mind and rode on, feeling good. I think I even giggled once. Sometimes\n I even convince myself that I'm hell on wheels.\nIII", "The other one didn't move. \"Get going, Jack,\" Horst said in a menacing\n tone and they stood toe to toe for a long moment before Jack finally", "I started Ninc up again and moved slowly to catch up with them. All the\n men on horseback had guns in saddle boots. They looked as nervous as", "I was about to bring my gun out when up came Jack leading Ninc, with\n all my stuff loaded on. I mentally thanked him.", "nice little girl, and to get rid of the kid, she sent her on a phony\n errand into the deep dark woods at nightfall. I could appreciate the" ], [ "had two or three brothers and sisters, but it didn't strike me until\n that moment that it wouldn't even seem out of the ordinary to these\n kids. Isn't that horrible?", "My name is Mia Havero. I'm fourteen, of course, or I wouldn't be", "He said what I expected. \"Mia, do you want to go partners if we can get\n together when we get down?\"", "The old man had just finished and they were starting to drag the kids\n off to bed when there was a commotion on the road at the edge of the", "But that wasn't what bothered me. It was the kids. My God! They\n swarmed. I saw a family come out of a house—a father and\nfour", "I set up camp and ate my dinner. In the wagon closest to me were a man,\n his wife and their three children. The kids were running around and", "Venie Morlock has got a crush on Jimmy D., and when she saw me start\n getting ready to go, she began to check her gear, too. At our next", "By the time I came out on the other side, I was sick. My hands were\n cold and sweaty and my head was spinning, and I wanted to kick Ninc to\n a gallop.", "When nightfall came, they started a large fire. Everybody gathered\n around. There was singing for awhile, and then the father of the", "There were sixteen of us girls and thirteen boys. We took our places\n in the seats in the center of the scout. Riggy Allen made a joke that", "The other one didn't move. \"Get going, Jack,\" Horst said in a menacing\n tone and they stood toe to toe for a long moment before Jack finally", "The kids weren't to blame for their parents, but when one of them said\n hello to me, I didn't even answer. I know how lousy I would feel if I", "On the third day, I found the road. I brought Ninc down off the\n hillside, losing sight of the road in the trees, and then reaching", "Don't think I was helpless. I'm hell on wheels. They don't let us grow\n for fourteen years and then kick us out to die. They prepare us. They", "nice little girl, and to get rid of the kid, she sent her on a phony\n errand into the deep dark woods at nightfall. I could appreciate the", "When I was nine, my Daddy gave me a painted wooden doll that my\n great-grandmother brought from Earth. The thing is that inside it,", "nobody bothered to laugh at, and then we were all silent. I was feeling\n lost and just beginning to enjoy it when Jimmy Dentremont came over to", "It was about an old witch named Baba Yaga who lived in the forest in\n a house that stood on chicken legs. She was the nasty stepmother of a", "I started Ninc up again and moved slowly to catch up with them. All the\n men on horseback had guns in saddle boots. They looked as nervous as", "\"Well, well. Horst, look who we have here,\" he called. It was the one\n who'd made the joke about me being beneath the notice of a Losel. He" ], [ "By the time I came out on the other side, I was sick. My hands were\n cold and sweaty and my head was spinning, and I wanted to kick Ninc to\n a gallop.", "we wouldn't tell these Mud-eaters how, a scoutship is something that\n takes an advanced technology to build.\nI felt defeated and tired. Not much farther along the road, I came to", "I felt like crawling in a corner of the ship and crying, but nobody\n else was breaking down, so I didn't. I did feel miserable. I cried when", "I'd had two bad shocks on this day, but they weren't the last. In the\n late afternoon, when the sun was starting to sink and a cool wind was", "nobody bothered to laugh at, and then we were all silent. I was feeling\n lost and just beginning to enjoy it when Jimmy Dentremont came over to", "The first night was hell, I guess because I'm not used to having the\n lights out. That's when you really start to feel lonely, being alone in", "He said what I expected. \"Mia, do you want to go partners if we can get\n together when we get down?\"", "My name is Mia Havero. I'm fourteen, of course, or I wouldn't be", "On the third day, I found the road. I brought Ninc down off the\n hillside, losing sight of the road in the trees, and then reaching", "When we were behind the pen and out of earshot of the fire, he stopped\n dragging me and dropped me in a heap. \"Make any noise,\" he said, \"and\n I'll hurt you.\"", "Don't think I was helpless. I'm hell on wheels. They don't let us grow\n for fourteen years and then kick us out to die. They prepare us. They", "Venie Morlock has got a crush on Jimmy D., and when she saw me start\n getting ready to go, she began to check her gear, too. At our next", "For the first time since I landed on Tintera, I felt\nreally\nfrightened. There was too much going on that I didn't understand. I", "The old man had just finished and they were starting to drag the kids\n off to bed when there was a commotion on the road at the edge of the", "because I never believed that I wouldn't. The thought that made me\n unhappy was that I would have to be on a planet for a whole month.\n Planets make me feel wretched.", "reached each other, but I kept going. He had to come around and follow\n me. I believe in judging a person by his face. A man can't help the", "He seemed exasperated. I have that effect sometimes. Even on Mother and\n Daddy, who should know better.", "I waited. Then suddenly my arm was hit a numbing blow from behind\n and the gun went flying. Jack pounced after it and Horst said, \"Good\n enough,\" to the others who'd come up behind me.", "I looked down at the plodding, unhappy creatures they were driving\n along and one looked back at me with dull, expressionless golden eyes.\n I felt uncomfortable.\n\n\n I said, \"I don't think so.\"", "About the time I finished eating, and before it grew dark, the old man\n I had seen earlier in the day drove his wagon in. He fascinated me. He\n had white hair, something I had read about in stories but had never\n seen before." ], [ "On the third day, I found the road. I brought Ninc down off the\n hillside, losing sight of the road in the trees, and then reaching", "camp. I looked but my eyes were adjusted to the light of the fire and I\n couldn't see far into the dark.", "camp out, as nasty as that would be. The third was to join forces,\n though not with that meatball Jimmy D.", "a campsite with two wagons pulled in for the night, and I couldn't\n help but pull in myself. The campsite was large and had two permanent", "I set up camp and ate my dinner. In the wagon closest to me were a man,\n his wife and their three children. The kids were running around and", "Horst growled a retort. I decided that it was time for me to leave the\n campfire. I got up and eased away as Horst and his men came up to the", "fire, and cut back to where Ninc was parked. I grabbed up my blankets\n and mattress and started to roll them up. I had a pretty good idea now\n what they used the high-walled pen for.", "nice little girl, and to get rid of the kid, she sent her on a phony\n errand into the deep dark woods at nightfall. I could appreciate the", "I rode in a spiral search pattern during the next two days. I had three\n things in mind—stay alive, find people and find some of the others.", "we wouldn't tell these Mud-eaters how, a scoutship is something that\n takes an advanced technology to build.\nI felt defeated and tired. Not much farther along the road, I came to", "When nightfall came, they started a large fire. Everybody gathered\n around. There was singing for awhile, and then the father of the", "When we reached Tintera, they started dropping us. We swung over the\n sea from the morning side and then dropped low over gray-green forested", "them now.\" I dug my heels into Ninc's sides and rode on. At the next\n bend I looked back and saw four of them holding their packhorses and", "When we were behind the pen and out of earshot of the fire, he stopped\n dragging me and dropped me in a heap. \"Make any noise,\" he said, \"and\n I'll hurt you.\"", "I should have known that they would have to pen the animals up for the\n night. I should have used my head. I hadn't and now it was time to take\n leave.", "accent, and sitting there in the campfire light surrounded by darkness,\n it seemed just right.", "By the time I came out on the other side, I was sick. My hands were\n cold and sweaty and my head was spinning, and I wanted to kick Ninc to\n a gallop.", "He said, \"What be you doing out here, boy? Be you out of your head?\n There be escaped Losels in these woods.\"", "Venie Morlock has got a crush on Jimmy D., and when she saw me start\n getting ready to go, she began to check her gear, too. At our next", "The first night was hell, I guess because I'm not used to having the\n lights out. That's when you really start to feel lonely, being alone in" ] ]
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