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In the usual sense of things, this interacting activity must be so small as to get buried in larger signals. But the quark detector was designed to eliminate all larger signals. Chapter 38 REPERCUSSIONS BEGIN Hal and Adrienne Kennedy, his fiancee, had put me up on a fold-out bed in his study. I awoke therein on Wednesday, 7 June 1972, in a mood that was a combination of a comfortable feeling coupled with an ice cream hangover. The sense of comfort involved the certainty that I had only three more days to spend at SRI -- and which would constitute the END of all this parapsychology stuff. I could then reclaim my life and get on with my creative visions. Hal was elated as we drove to Pete’s coffee place, but I was sardonic. It was clear to me by now that he fully intended to attempt setting up a project at SRI. But I was gloomy in this regard -- largely because I was thinking through what later turned out to be two misconceptions or "realities." "If you try to do this," I warned him, "you’re sure to end up in Time magazine’s Fraud Box, and the parapsychologists will hate you anyway. You’ll be dead in the water from the start." In talking along these lines, I was thinking in terms of parapsychology’s closed, ghettoized system characterized by internecine warfare.