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then he was able to control himself. He drank some water and took
a deep breath. "Crude writing was around. It existed. We regarded
it with a mixture of suspicion and awe."
"What do you think of it now?"
"Alphabet!" Once again, Elko put his hands over his mouth.
"Information!" he shouted into his hands. "Immortality!"
"In a few days they're going to have you start writing your
thoughts and reflections down," Franz said. "It's to give the
students a database of quotes they can attribute to you as they're
learning."
John leaned forward and whispered, "If you need any help,
give Franz here a call. He wrote half of mine for me."
Elko cautiously moved his hands away from his mouth. In a
low, uneven voice he said, "Ill keep that in mind, thank you."

#

Elko attended his first cocktail party as Raymond Burn's
special guest. It was his first time outside the Technica campus,
and his first ride in a car. He kept closing his eyes because
things seemed to be coming at him too fast, and by the time they
reached Raymond's large round house in the hills he was feeling
nauseous.
There were several different levels to Raymond's house, each
one reached through the wide circular staircase in the center of
the structure. Elko was dazzled by the architecture, and kept
running his hands over the smooth, hard surfaces. Concrete! his
mind shouted, but by now Elko had learned how to keep it to
himself. Clay so hard it turned to stone! The top floor was one
large round room with a shallow domed roof ornamented by a
spectacular stained glass skylight. There were over-stuffed
chairs, leather couches and ornate wooden cocktail tables
everywhere, as well as white-uniformed butlers ready to serve. One
white piano stood out near a large window, and next to it stood a
large golden harp. To Elko's amazement they played themselves.
Computerized! he thought. Automated!
The reason for the party was that Raymond was celebrating his
elevation in status from 5th to 6th level professor at Technica.
The reason for his elevation, so Elko gathered, was the discovery
by Raymond of Elko himself. Elko was considered a very important
discovery for Technica, and he was honored as one of the most
important additions to the Great Hall.
A cocktail party, as Elko soon discovered, was a
loosely-conducted ritual where many people stood around sipping
alcoholic drinks and saying meaningful things to each other. Elko
was at a loss trying to ascertain what his part in it was, though
people kept coming up to him and asking him all sorts of
disturbing questions.
"How long did it take you to develop the wheel from concept
to working model?"