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Weak on Square Roots, by Russell Burton
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Title: Weak on Square Roots
Author: Russell Burton
Illustrator: Tom Beecham
Release Date: September 13, 2009 [EBook #29976]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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Does your wife call you Pumpkinhead? Well, maybe it's not an insult; it might be a pet name. Ah--but whose pet name?
WEAK ON SQUARE ROOTS
By Russell Burton
Illustrated by TOM BEECHAM
As his coach sped through dusk-darkened Jersey meadows, Ronald Lovegear, fourteen years with Allied Electronix, embraced his burden with both arms, silently cursing the engineer who was deliberately rocking the train. In his thin chest he nursed the conviction that someday there would be an intelligent robot at the throttle of the 5:10 to Philadelphia.
He carefully moved one hand and took a notebook from his pocket. That would be a good thing to mention at the office next Monday.
Again he congratulated himself for having induced his superiors to let him take home the company's most highly developed mechanism to date. He had already forgiven himself for the little white lie t