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The Lost Kafoozalum, by Pauline Ashwell
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Title: The Lost Kafoozalum
Author: Pauline Ashwell
Illustrator: Schoenherr
Release Date: November 8, 2009 [EBook #30427]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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This etext was produced from Analog Science Fact & Fiction October 1960. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.
THE LOST KAFOOZALUM
by PAULINE ASHWELL
Illustrated by Schoenherr
One of the beautiful things about a delusion is that no matter how mad someone gets at it ... he can't do it any harm. Therefore a delusion can be a fine thing for prodding angry belligerents....
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I remember some bad times, most of them back home on Excenus 23; the worst was when Dad fell under the reaping machine but there was also the one when I got lost twenty miles from home with a dud radio, at the age of twelve; and the one when Uncle Charlie caught me practicing emergency turns in a helicar round the main weather-maker; and the one on Figuerra being chased by a cyber-crane; and the