Null-ABC by Henry Beam Piper;John Joseph McGuire
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page 78 of 140 (55%)
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From the Joyner-Graves side, there were dutiful cries of, "Yes! Yes!
Admit the young Peltons!" and also gasps of horrified surprise from the rank-and-filers who hadn't been briefed on what was coming up. Lancedale was on his feet in an instant. "Literate President!" he cried. "In view of the delicate political situation, and in view of Chester Pelton's violent denunciation of our Fraternities--" "Literate Lancedale," the President objected. "The motion is not to be debated until it has been properly seconded." "What does the Literate President think I'm doing?" Lancedale retorted. "I second the motion!" Joyner looked at Lancedale in angry surprise, which gradually became fearful suspicion. His stooge, who had already risen with a prepared speech of seconding, simply gaped. "Furthermore," Lancedale continued, "I move an amendment to Literate Joyner's motion. I move that the ceremony of the administration of the Literates' Oath, and the investiture in the smock and insignia, be carried out as soon as possible, and that an audio-visual recording be made, and telecast this evening, before twenty-one hundred." Brigade commander Chernov, prodded by Cardon, jumped to his feet. "Excellent!" he cried. "I second the motion to amend the motion of Literate Joyner." If there were such a thing as a bomb which would explode stunned |
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