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Olaf Stapledon


CONTENTS

I FIRST MEETING
II THE MAKING OF SIRIUS
III INFANCY
IV YOUTH
V SHEEP-DOG APPRENTICE
VI BIRTH PANGS OF A PERSONALITY
VII WOLF SIRIUS
VIII SIRIUS AT CAMBRIDGE
IX SIRIUS AND RELIGION
X EXPERIENCES IN LONDON
XI MAN AS TYRANT
XII FARMER SIRIUS
XIII EFFECTS OF WAR
XIV TAN-Y-VOEL
XV STRANGE TRIANGLE
XVI PLAXY CONSCRIPTED
XVII OUTLAW

I should like to acknowledge my debt to Mr. J. Herries McCulloch's delightful study, Sheep Dogs and Their Masters. He must not,
however, be held in any way responsible for my sheer fantasies.




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CHAPTER I

FIRST MEETING

PLAXY and I had been lovers; rather uneasy lovers, for she would never speak freely about her past, and sometimes she
withdrew into a cloud of reserve and despond. But often we were very happy together, and I believed that our happiness was
striking deeper roots.

Then came her mother's last illness, and Plaxy vanished. Once or twice I received a letter from her, giving no address, but
suggesting that I might reply to her "care of the Post Office" in a village in North Wales, sometimes one, sometimes another. In
temper these letters ranged from a perfunctory amiability to genuine longing to have me again. They contained mysterious
references to "a strange duty," which, she said, was connected with her father's work. The great physiologist, I knew, had been
engaged on very sensational experiments on the brains of the higher mammals. He had produced some marvelously intelligent
sheep-dogs, and at the time of his death it was said that he was concerned with even more ambitious research. One of the colder