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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
I just noticed your avatar. I loved that episode.
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Very OT
Absolutely one of my favorites as well. There was a time in my life that I felt just like Henry Bemis. I remember reading Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man while holding the paperback book in a desk drawer while waiting for the Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer to complete its job of... well, what a Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer does. To anyone who passed by, it appeared I was in deep analysis of a test result, but I was actually engrossed in the struggle of Ben Reich against the Espers, and especially the Man with No Face.
I could not do that at home. That would be a dereliction of my duties as a the ever attentive emotional punching bag of a needy spouse.
Reading was not allowed. "Quit that nonsense!"
Lord, did I understand Henry Bemis and Ben Reich (well, without the Espers, and without the nuclear Holocaust).
Now there is time enough at last.
Unless of course the world ends. That would be a unfair.