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mean they were not real. Thoughts were not ghosts. They
existed. Therefore, they were real.

Jim knew that his experiences in those pocket universes
were as real as his pain when, not so long ago, he had
driven his fist against his bedroom wall. And was not the
blood flowing from the whiplashes on his back a witness to
quell all doubts of his story? However, Doctor Porsena,
scientist, rationalist, and rationalizer, would explain all
puzzling phenomena with superb logic.

Jim usually loved the doctor. Just now, he hated him.

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Novembers, 1979

/\LL PREVIOUS PATIENTS," Doctor Porsena said, "have
tried other types of therapy. These failed to improve the
patients, though part of that might be attributed to the
patients' hostility to psychiatric therapy of any kind."

"Old Chinese saying," Jim Grimson said. " 'You have to
be nuts if you go to a psychiatrist.' Another celestial
proverb. 'Insanity is not what it's cracked up to be.'"

L. Robert Porsena, M.D., F.C.P., head of the Wellington
Hospital psychiatric unit, smiled thinly. Jim thought that he
was probably thinking. Another smart-ass kid I got to deal
with. Heard his rest-room-graffiti quotations a thousand
times. 'Celestial proverb' indeed. He's trying to impress
me, show me that he isn't just another ignorant drooling
pimpled drugged-up rock-freak youth who's gone off his
rocker.

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On the other hand. Doctor Porsena might not be thinking
that at all. It was hard to know what went on behind that
handsome face that looked almost exactly like Julius Cae-