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"Same with my Infinite Divisor," he lamented. "The blueprints are drawn, the computations are computed, but Croaker keeps dropping the pieces! What good's a right-hand man that's all thumbs?" And in a sudden access of dejection, as once before in the Observatory, he wondered aloud whether brutes like his roommate, altogether free of reason and discernment, were not after all the truly passèd.
"I'm not sure about that yet," I replied, assuming he'd put the question to me. "But even if Bray's citations for both of you are right -- and like yourself I don't see how they couldboth be -- it doesn't seem to me that either one of you has qualified for Candidacy yet on the grounds he cited."
Dr. Eierkopf was turning a fresh egg sadly in his fingers. "If I told him once about highsol, I told him twenty times." Now he brightened and tittered. "Did you know your friend Anastasia can break these with herlevator ani? I had her do a dozen
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