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Old 04-25-2016, 03:39 AM   #909
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It must have been around 50 years ago that I read this book, and ever since I get it confused with others. All I remember is that it involved a space alien who came to Earth and transformed society by, among other things, teaching people mind control. The scene that remains uppermost in my mind occurs, I believe, near the end of the book and describes an office where people are walking around in a state of bliss, one fellow's pack of cigarettes floating behind him and following him as he walks about.
Robert A. Heinlein - "Stranger in a Strange Land"
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