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"Yes."

Shevek bunked. He made no comment He asked,
"Where are the dothes I wore?"

^our clothes? I had them cleanedЧsterilization. I hope
you don't mind, sirЧ" He investigated a wall panel Shevek,
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had not discovered and brought out a packet wrapped in
pale-green paper. He unwrapped Shevek's old suit, which
looked very clean and somewhat reduced in size, wadded
up the green paper, activated another panel, tossed the
paper into the bin that opened, and smiled uncertainly,
"There you are, Dr. Shevek."

"What happens to the paper?"

"The paper?"

*The green paper."

**0h, I put it m the trash."

"Trash?"

"Disposal. It gets burned up."

^ou burn paper?"

"Perhaps it just gets dropped out into space, I don't
know. I'm no space medic. Dr. Shevek, I was given the
honor of attending you because of my experience with
other visitors from offworld, the ambassadors from Ter-
ra and from Ham. I run the decontamination and habitua-
tion procedure for all aliens arriving in A-Io. Not that
you're exactly an alien in the same sense, of course." He
looked timidly at Shevek, who could not follow all he
said, but did discern the anxious, diffident, well-meaning
nature beneath the words.

"No," Shevek assured him, "maybe I have the same
grandmother as you, two hundred years ago, on Urras."
He was putting on his old clothes, and as he pulled the shirt
over his head he saw the doctor stuff the blue and yellow
"sleeping clothes" into the "trash" bin. Shevek paused, the
collar still over his nose. He emerged fully, knelt, and
opened the bin. It was empty.