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This, in turn, gave us the security we needed to
be able to rapidly advance the nature of our work
-- from simply studying disease, to the more
fruitful study of studying itself, and
then, from there, on to the even more fruitful
study of the process of studying studying itself,
itself, and then on to the study of the process of
the study of the processes of this process, itself
-- and so on, recursively.
Of course the great leaders and celebrities of this and other worlds, both secular and religious, were all flocking to the institute to avail themselves of the great work we were doing, and to laud my saintly intentions and herculean perseverance. |
It seemed that whoever came in contact with me, at this time, suddenly stopped being the slimy, filthy, creepy scumbag she'd always been and, immediately, turned into the kind of warm, loving, caring person who, in any life-and-death situation, always selflessly risked her own life to try to save everybody else first.
But then I went on a brief sabbatical, and while I was gone, the researchers took over the institute and turned it into a population redistribution center. They'd designed an airlift program that they claimed could achieve a maximum throughput of about 1 million people per hour, and were all
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