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I pointed this out. Bill said "Oh, shit," and rushed out onto the patio. Karagulla asked me: "What do you think of conspiracies?" "Oh," I said, "they’re everywhere, aren’t they?" "WELL! Shall we compare some notes?" "Yeah! But I think Bill and Jean want to talk high etheric and spiritual stuff. They might find that topic crude." At this, Bill returned to the living room and began turning on the lamps. At the third lamp, all the lights in the house went out. Bill said: "Oh shit!" He went to fix the fuse box. A voice in the dark, Karagulla’s: "What about occult conspiracies?" There was a huge crash of some kind in what I took to be the kitchen--and a wail, Jean’s: "Bill, they’re discussing conspiracies ALREADY." The lights came back on. All in all, Dinner At The Tiller’s seemed successful enough. Karagulla limped toward me and gave me a big hug as I was leaving. Bill drove me to the Hal/Adrienne set-up. "You and Shafia seemed to get along well," he said. "I think she’s just wonderful. I hope we can meet again to talk about higher sense perception." Chapter 42 THE FIRST INTIMATIONS OF PSYCHOENERGETICS