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For
Timothy Leary
and
Gene Roddenberry


"Why, you shall say at break of day:
Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!"
-COLUMBUS, by Joaquin Miller

1


тАЬHave fun saving the world, Dex,тАЭ Ellie said dryly. тАЬButdo try not to get too beered out."

тАЬMustyou rain on my parade?тАЭ Dexter Lampkin muttered sourly.

тАЬWho amI to deny you a little fannish fun?тАЭ said Ellie, her voice softening with a certain gentle
self-mockery. She pecked him on the cheek. тАЬI just don't want you to wrap that damned thing around a
tree, is that asking too much? Peace?"

тАЬPeace,тАЭ Dexter grunted and closed the door behind him, feeling like Dagwood having received a
patronizing pat on the head from the Little Lady.

He had been going to these first Wednesday things for, what, close on three years now. A dozen or so
fans of his out-of-print novel, drinking beer, sneaking the occasional joint, calling themselves
тАЬTransformationalists,тАЭ and convincing themselves that they were somehow going to save the world in the
process.

Each first Thursday, he swore he would never go to one of these things again. Each first Wednesday, he
went anyway.

Why?