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You are not merely that, you are the only person I have ever heardof who did not know he was in a virtual environment. I do not understand. And you call _me_ old-fashioned. First Man knew that the broken, gnawed bones of manyof the other Animal People lay outside Yellow Eyes' den.

Fredericks and T4b now joined the argument, although it was hard to hear what either wassaying in the general din. In other circumstances, Renie wouldhave laughed at the anticlimactic obviousness of it, but she was as stunned as he was. She swiveled. Red light showed through the slits in its grille.