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anything to work right … not what I expected … it hurts … what’s hurt?… what who expected?… turn down the signals, turn them down, they’re tearing me up … too many of them, too strong … help, somebody help me!… trapped … please, please, somebody help me, get me out of this thing … this is the last of AA, screaming, screaming … A new baby cried lustily in the bedroom of a New York tenement. Both mother and midwife grinned happily, sweat running down their faces. CLICK! BB flickered. (Is that all?) AA lighted. (That’s only the beginning.) BB turned in. (Some beginning. You weren’t very happy.) (Oh, after a bit I learned, did I learn! There’s so much I can’t get it all into one rote … What’s wrong?) (I’m getting a wild percept.) AA blanked. (From where?) BB smoothed. (Never mind, let’s get on home. We’re going to have to pull at least four skips to get back to KT-95 on our own. So …) (Home! I can’t go back yet.) AA vibrated rapidly. (Sure, you can.) (No!) (Now, come on, AA …) (I had only forty-five years. Then I got sick. I didn’t get to finish!) BB smoothed. (Whatever forty-five years is, that’s enough. Come on.) (I can’t!) AA flickered violently. (I have only half the experience!) BB blanked. (Half?) (I was a male this last time! Now I’m going to be female!) BB blanked completely. (Male? Female?) (That’s right, old buddy, and they’re as different as, as … That’s what I’m going to find out.) BB hardened. (You’re in trouble.) (Trouble? What trouble?)