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The phone madethat phlegm-ugly electronic sound its designers thought was reassuring to the human spirit, and I grabbedit on the third. If I’ d never beenintroduced to fandom, I’ d have saved five years of mistakes. The sound of gagging, the glow of spittle. Peregrin’s, Henry Roblee’s, even Marion Gore’s—not to mention mine and yours.

“652 THE ESSENTIAL ELLISON Dira could not believe it. She was out of her disguise. ” “ No, not really. He was assured—in some indefinable way—notonly that we were not being followed, but that we were what we declared ourselves to be: waifs on the seaof intrigue.