Psychological fiction; Science fiction; United States -- Fiction
"I don't believe I quite understand," I said carefully.
"You will," Dr. Rothberg said. "Let's just say for a starter that when
a man is bipped and brought here, we try to put him back together
again. It's a long painful process. Sometimes he's not quite the same,
but we've done pretty good work. We rebuild burned-out circuits. We
have to know exactly what you were before you were bipped, and we try
to duplicate the pattern. Regeneration is slow and rough. You'll be all
right."
They shook hands with me and smiled down at me and went out. The pretty
nurse gave me a pill and I lay back and thought about it. It was
logical enough, and I started to laugh. During the months after that
while the slow process of re-learning and regeneration continued, I
learned more about the Zany-Wards. Serious as it was, and as much as
there was yet to be done, it was always amusing.
As Eggheads were apprehended and confined, they were rehabilitated, put
back together again, in a way you could say fissioned. The Eggheads are
the inmates. They run the Zany-Wards which are used also as bases of
operation in a continuing attempt to disrupt the Era of Normalcy. Great
scientific labs are concealed underground.
When Security inspection committees appear on the scene, we all put on
our acts. We dance, make faces, act like monkeys and giggle.
Doctor Rothberg told me yesterday that if our sabotage work doesn't
soon cause people to rebel against the Era of Normalcy, it won't be
long before we'll be the only sane people left in the world.
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Dark Windows, by Bryce Walton
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