"Gussy!" Fay said sharply, his face tightening in alarm, "Have you forgotten your promise?"
""Course not, Fay. My new inventions aren"t for Micro or any other firm. They"re just a legitimate part of my literary endeavors. Happens my next insanity novel is goin" to be about a mad inventor."
--FRITZ LEIBER
Transcriber"s Note -- Changes made [original in brackets]:
"Society can"t have much use for us [use]
It"s the Cheshire [Chesire] cat in reverse.
"Zen ["Zen] come near me,"
"Ha, wouldn"t you like to know?" [know? ] Fay retorted.
Grab a ticket to ecstasy! [ecstacy]
And every hundredth time it says them out loud and the tickler gives [give]
so it can spot and follow him around then [the] target Postmen deliver topside [top-side] mail We-Who-Are-About-To-Die [We-Who Are-About-To-Die]
the scanning and [and and] decision-making They "think," to use that archaic [archiac] word did that drug-addict girl friend of yours ever take you to a ["a" missing] genuine orgy "Have you no heart?" Fay [Gay] demanded.
But Gusterson [Gunderson] was already shaking his head.
now-familiar triple-jointed [joined] shrug just like nomads need horses.[,]