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"Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty-three
thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in
Hercules тАФ and still there are some misfits who insist that
there is no such thing as progress."

RANSOM K. FERN
 DEDICATION

For Alex Vonnegut, Special Agent,
with love тАФ

All persons, places, and events in this book are real.
Certain speeches and thoughts are necessarily
constructions by the author. No names have been changed
to protect the innocent, since God Almighty protects the
innocent as a matter of Heavenly routine.
 CHAPTER ONE

BETWEEN TIMID AND TIMBUKTU

"I guess somebody up there likes me."
тАФ MALACHI CONSTANT


Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.
But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago men and women did not have
easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.
They could not name even one of the fifty-three portals to the soul.