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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: Cause of Death - -Author: Max Tadlock - -Release Date: February 6, 2016 [EBook #51137] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CAUSE OF DEATH *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/cover.jpg" width="401" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="titlepage"> -<h1>CAUSE OF DEATH</h1> - -<p>By MAX TADLOCK</p> - -<p>Illustrated by JOHNS</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Galaxy Science Fiction November 1955.<br /> -Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that<br /> -the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p class="ph3"><i>Reaching the ultimate secret was no problem ...<br /> -but could I follow it up with an encore?</i></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>About this thing, I couldn't stand to have them laugh. Not the way they -did about the swimming.</p> - -<p>"Oh, come now. No one could learn to swim by reading a book. -Five-eighths of a mile the first time in the water!"</p> - -<p>And they laughed. I guess I laughed, too. More than any other thing, -I've wanted people to be happy. But I never swam again—only that first -time.</p> - -<p>I've always read a lot and sometimes things I've read do get mixed up -with things I've done. But the things still happened—they happened to -<i>someone</i>. And people ought to <i>believe</i>.</p> - -<p>I'd like to tell people now. I'd like to say, "I died once."</p> - -<p>But if they laughed, it might be later and I'd never hear them. Already -there are too many silent things in this. There must be no silent -laughter as well.</p> - -<p>They might think I've got myself all mixed up with things I've read. -Things like surgeons pumping life into a heart to bring the patient -back after he's died on the operating table. Doctors reviving dead -soldiers, if they haven't been gone too long.</p> - -<p>It's not like that at all. I was truly dead—for three days. It was -almost too long; I suppose I made it back just in time. I don't know.</p> - -<p>My reading was what started me on this, just the same as with the -swimming. When I think about it too much, I almost feel myself that I -am exaggerating a bit.</p> - -<p>But I have proof, proof which no one has ever seen but the doctors and -those who found me. See how they keep me swathed in these cloths and -how the darkened room hides my eyes?</p> - -<p>Anyway, I'd be ashamed to show myself, for the mark of death is too -terrible and people would be even more afraid of dying than they are -now.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>You see, I could have done it in the winter, only I was worried about -the cold. I might not have been able to get back at all. But it was too -warm when I chose to do it. I should have known better. I've read a -lot about keeping things. You can't preserve them in the hot weather; -that's why the doctors put those dead soldiers in ice chests, but I -didn't think about it enough. I made some other mistakes, too, but I -couldn't have known.</p> - -<p>I guess what started it all was something I read a long time ago, -perhaps in a story, or an agricultural bulletin, or maybe in an -encyclopedia. Anyhow, it was something about pigs being able to just -die if they want to.</p> - -<p>That always stuck in my mind. It's a pretty wonderful thing, you know. -Imagine just being able to die if life didn't seem worth living, or if -you were lonely, or maybe just because you wanted to.</p> - -<p>Oh, I told lots of people about it. You know how sometimes a lull comes -in a conversation. Then I'd say, "Pigs are able to just up and die if -they want to."</p> - -<p>But nobody ever paid any attention to me at all. They seemed to ignore -the remark. One man did say once, "What the hell are you talking -about?" but even he wouldn't listen when I tried to explain.</p> - -<p>Perhaps it was just too improbable. Besides, people don't like to think -about death. They talk about it sometimes and sometimes they brood -about it, but they never really think. It has always been too unknown -and that frightens them. Then they only fear and stop thinking.</p> - -<p>It always did seem sad to me that no one had ever tried to help people -out about death. Yes, I know one did. He died and came back—but then -He wasn't just a man like you or me. And even He never said exactly -what it was like.</p> - -<p>I wondered if anyone really ever <i>had</i> said. So I began to read with -only a single purpose in mind. I had to know so I could tell people. If -they could only know, then they wouldn't have that fear and we could -talk of death and still be able to laugh.</p> - -<p>But I had read it all when I read of Jacob's dream, for that's all -there was—dreams, visions, hopes. No one had ever seen and come back -to tell the others.</p> - -<p>The question then was <i>why</i>, not <i>what</i>. It couldn't be that all who -died had no whole being to return to. Not every death is marked by a -body completely uninhabitable. I myself had heard a doctor say, "There -is nothing organically wrong now. The patient will recover if only he -has the will to live."</p> - -<p><i>The will to live!</i> Suddenly I knew I had found the way. I myself would -go and see and return to tell them all.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>I answered all the requirements. I had a healthy body to return to. I -had the will to live, for I enjoy my reading and acquaintances. And I -alone had thought it wonderful that pigs can die when they merely want -to.</p> - -<p>I knew that I could, too, and I was not afraid. Very carefully, I began -what seemed almost too simple preparations.</p> - -<p>Drawing some money from an account I kept for medical expenses (at the -time I thought this very amusing), I bought an electric clock which -registered the hour and the day of the month on cylinders like those on -a tachometer. I felt I would want to know exactly how long I had been -deceased when I came back.</p> - -<p>Next I secured a small round mirror with a concave face, the type -some use for shaving. This I was to hang directly above my face. It -was merely vanity on my part, for I wished to say that I as well as -Lazarus's friends had seen a dead man rise. I had assumed that at first -my vision might be blurred and thus the magnifying effect of this -particular glass would, I thought, help me focus on my face.</p> - -<p>On my study floor, I prepared a pallet. It was neither soft nor hard, -just a comfortable support for the body I was to leave. Beside it I -arranged a basin of water and some soft cloths, for I would want to -wash right after coming back.</p> - -<p>You see, I did not fear the obvious. My power lay in thought and I -proceeded systematically.</p> - -<p>Drawn blinds and two small night-lights spread a gray cast over the -room, a cast that I was to know too well.</p> - -<p>Everything was ready now. No, wait! Quickly I placed a tumbler and a -decanter of brandy within easy reach and by them laid a pencil and -a pad of paper. It was when I straightened up that I first felt the -pounding in my body. My heart pulsed as if it were smashing waves of -blood through my veins. In my throat, the large arteries swelled with -pressure until I thought I would strangle.</p> - -<p>I had to have some physical exertion to relieve the tension. I felt -I might faint or have a stroke unless I moved about. My father had -been stricken with an embolism at about my age, and I've read such -weaknesses are inherited.</p> - -<p>So I walked about the house rechecking the locks of windows and -doors. Perhaps it was just to keep busy for a few more moments that -I even rechecked the pads of cardboard with which I had muffled the -bell-clappers on both telephone and door chime. I don't seem to have -had many callers for several years now, but I had to avoid any chance -of being disturbed.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Somewhat calmed by my exertion, I prepared to lie down, but a -sentimental whim moved me like an automaton toward the window. It was -the only really unreasoning thing I did.</p> - -<p>Like a prisoner denied the light on penalty of torture, I knelt down -and looked under the blind. Never was the Sun so dazzling. This -slightest lifting of the shade poured onto me a warmth that I had never -known before.</p> - -<p>An old saying, invading my mind, destroyed the illusion, and laughing a -bit nervously at "seeking his place in the Sun," I turned away and lay -down.</p> - -<p>The dials on my new calendar clock registered 3:15, July 12. Reaching -for my pad and pencil, I recorded this and then, refolding my hands -across my chest, I lay quite still.</p> - -<p>The heat of the day had begun to saturate the closed room. Outside, all -was quiet, as if the Sun had mesmerized the world. The insect hum of -the electric clock was the only clue of life around me.</p> - -<p>Looming large above me in the mirror, the magnified reflection of my -face calmed my mind with its placidity. Great-lidded Buddha eyes gazed -down, holding in their glow my first understanding of Nirvana.</p> - -<p>I knew that it had come. I had reached the boundary where the fear of -returnless going stopped the psyche just this side.</p> - -<p>My only body consciousness was the heavy <i>thud</i> ... <i>thud</i> ... <i>thud</i> -of blood being driven through my veins. I toyed with stopping the -thudding, feeling and savoring the pause between those sledge-hammer -strokes on my brain—knowing that any one of those pauses lengthened to -eternity was death.</p> - -<p>Suddenly I shrieked and sat upright. For an instant, my body had -completely stopped and I had known it. Only a nameless grasping fear -had snatched me back.</p> - -<p>My heart beat wildly as I gasped for air. With shaking hands, I poured -a drink and gulped it down. It had been close.</p> - -<p>Still trembling, I arose and slumped into a chair. I had to organize -myself, to think my way along this thing.</p> - -<p>What had happened to me?</p> - -<p>This one thing I knew: I <i>could</i> do it. I could stop my body at will -and I had done it, if only for a second.</p> - -<p>This thought reassured me or perhaps the brandy opened my reserve of -courage, for I had been sitting in the chair some time.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>With caution, I approached the pallet. I regarded it with suspicion, as -though there were a deadly scorpion in its folds. Then, jeering at my -hesitation, I lay down and composed myself as before. The clock said -5:05. I stirred again only to record this on the pad.</p> - -<p>Despite my nervousness, things proceeded faster this time. A morbid -excitement carried me along the path I now already knew. And at its -end, I flirted with the <i>stopping</i>. Going over and stepping back, going -over and stepping back.</p> - -<p>It was a pleasure exquisite and unique. Once felt, it was unresistable.</p> - -<p>I was no longer afraid. I did not have to be. I could stop my body and -start it at will. So I let it slip away from me. The thuddings ceased -and only the pauses remained—silent, shapeless things in endless -procession. And then the great silence. It flowed over me and I was -lost.</p> - -<p>The silence was too heavy and my thoughts were not my own; they floated -up away from me in the silence. I could feel them go, but there was -nothing to bring them back. Each thought of protest winged its way -into a void with all the rest.</p> - -<p>And nothing else remained but the will to live. As the silence lapped -around this will, it grew until it alone was I. The silence washed -about it, but it stood.</p> - -<p>Then the little rippings and the slicings and the tearings and the -softening of things were there—heard without sound, felt without -feeling, like the pulling of a tooth from a novocaine-deadened jaw.</p> - -<p>It was then I saw the face.</p> - -<p>Have you ever felt the terror of suddenly waking with a face—a face -of eyes—staring into your unguarded and bewildered first glance? One -feels as if this face would look into one's very life and wrest it from -him. Perhaps it is a nascent fear of one's own mask of death.</p> - -<p>But I could not escape the mask. It loomed above me with gaping maw -and staring eyes; eyes that seemed more dead and deadly as my vision -cleared. The mirror enlarged the horror that lay below it.</p> - -<p>It was the wrench of nausea that pulled me from this nightmare. In the -violence of the retching, I rolled from beneath the mirror and raised -myself to hands and knees. I had knocked over the clock and it shouted -up at me—10:05, July 15. Three days! Too long! Too horribly long!</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Slowly I dragged myself to the telephone and pulled it from the stand. -I remember nothing else until they brought me here.</p> - -<p>It's been eight days—eight days away from death, yet I'm closer to -it now than ever before. And I can't <i>think</i> of it. The fear has come -crashing through and I can't <i>think</i>.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" width="371" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>This thing, this body is too far gone. I won't be able to make it move. -I'll just feel it getting away—little by little—ripping apart cell by -cell, and then everywhere all at once.</p> - -<p>I can feel it now. But in that great silence, I could almost hear the -tearing—yet there was no sound.</p> - -<p>The doctors have given up all hope. I can see it in their faces. I -could hear them talking among themselves when they brought me in. They -had to give it a name. There's a certain safety in a name, you know.</p> - -<p>I would have told them, but I was afraid they'd laugh. The nurses would -laugh and say to each other, "Have you heard what the one in 408 wanted -in his case history?"</p> - -<p>I couldn't stand the laughter now.</p> - -<p>But that's the way my chart should read—Cause of Death:—<i>Death!</i></p> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Cause of Death, by Max Tadlock - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CAUSE OF DEATH *** - -***** This file should be named 51137-h.htm or 51137-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/1/1/3/51137/ - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: Cause of Death - -Author: Max Tadlock - -Release Date: February 6, 2016 [EBook #51137] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CAUSE OF DEATH *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - CAUSE OF DEATH - - By MAX TADLOCK - - Illustrated by JOHNS - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Galaxy Science Fiction November 1955. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - - - - Reaching the ultimate secret was no problem ... - but could I follow it up with an encore? - - -About this thing, I couldn't stand to have them laugh. Not the way they -did about the swimming. - -"Oh, come now. No one could learn to swim by reading a book. -Five-eighths of a mile the first time in the water!" - -And they laughed. I guess I laughed, too. More than any other thing, -I've wanted people to be happy. But I never swam again--only that first -time. - -I've always read a lot and sometimes things I've read do get mixed up -with things I've done. But the things still happened--they happened to -_someone_. And people ought to _believe_. - -I'd like to tell people now. I'd like to say, "I died once." - -But if they laughed, it might be later and I'd never hear them. Already -there are too many silent things in this. There must be no silent -laughter as well. - -They might think I've got myself all mixed up with things I've read. -Things like surgeons pumping life into a heart to bring the patient -back after he's died on the operating table. Doctors reviving dead -soldiers, if they haven't been gone too long. - -It's not like that at all. I was truly dead--for three days. It was -almost too long; I suppose I made it back just in time. I don't know. - -My reading was what started me on this, just the same as with the -swimming. When I think about it too much, I almost feel myself that I -am exaggerating a bit. - -But I have proof, proof which no one has ever seen but the doctors and -those who found me. See how they keep me swathed in these cloths and -how the darkened room hides my eyes? - -Anyway, I'd be ashamed to show myself, for the mark of death is too -terrible and people would be even more afraid of dying than they are -now. - - * * * * * - -You see, I could have done it in the winter, only I was worried about -the cold. I might not have been able to get back at all. But it was too -warm when I chose to do it. I should have known better. I've read a -lot about keeping things. You can't preserve them in the hot weather; -that's why the doctors put those dead soldiers in ice chests, but I -didn't think about it enough. I made some other mistakes, too, but I -couldn't have known. - -I guess what started it all was something I read a long time ago, -perhaps in a story, or an agricultural bulletin, or maybe in an -encyclopedia. Anyhow, it was something about pigs being able to just -die if they want to. - -That always stuck in my mind. It's a pretty wonderful thing, you know. -Imagine just being able to die if life didn't seem worth living, or if -you were lonely, or maybe just because you wanted to. - -Oh, I told lots of people about it. You know how sometimes a lull comes -in a conversation. Then I'd say, "Pigs are able to just up and die if -they want to." - -But nobody ever paid any attention to me at all. They seemed to ignore -the remark. One man did say once, "What the hell are you talking -about?" but even he wouldn't listen when I tried to explain. - -Perhaps it was just too improbable. Besides, people don't like to think -about death. They talk about it sometimes and sometimes they brood -about it, but they never really think. It has always been too unknown -and that frightens them. Then they only fear and stop thinking. - -It always did seem sad to me that no one had ever tried to help people -out about death. Yes, I know one did. He died and came back--but then -He wasn't just a man like you or me. And even He never said exactly -what it was like. - -I wondered if anyone really ever _had_ said. So I began to read with -only a single purpose in mind. I had to know so I could tell people. If -they could only know, then they wouldn't have that fear and we could -talk of death and still be able to laugh. - -But I had read it all when I read of Jacob's dream, for that's all -there was--dreams, visions, hopes. No one had ever seen and come back -to tell the others. - -The question then was _why_, not _what_. It couldn't be that all who -died had no whole being to return to. Not every death is marked by a -body completely uninhabitable. I myself had heard a doctor say, "There -is nothing organically wrong now. The patient will recover if only he -has the will to live." - -_The will to live!_ Suddenly I knew I had found the way. I myself would -go and see and return to tell them all. - - * * * * * - -I answered all the requirements. I had a healthy body to return to. I -had the will to live, for I enjoy my reading and acquaintances. And I -alone had thought it wonderful that pigs can die when they merely want -to. - -I knew that I could, too, and I was not afraid. Very carefully, I began -what seemed almost too simple preparations. - -Drawing some money from an account I kept for medical expenses (at the -time I thought this very amusing), I bought an electric clock which -registered the hour and the day of the month on cylinders like those on -a tachometer. I felt I would want to know exactly how long I had been -deceased when I came back. - -Next I secured a small round mirror with a concave face, the type -some use for shaving. This I was to hang directly above my face. It -was merely vanity on my part, for I wished to say that I as well as -Lazarus's friends had seen a dead man rise. I had assumed that at first -my vision might be blurred and thus the magnifying effect of this -particular glass would, I thought, help me focus on my face. - -On my study floor, I prepared a pallet. It was neither soft nor hard, -just a comfortable support for the body I was to leave. Beside it I -arranged a basin of water and some soft cloths, for I would want to -wash right after coming back. - -You see, I did not fear the obvious. My power lay in thought and I -proceeded systematically. - -Drawn blinds and two small night-lights spread a gray cast over the -room, a cast that I was to know too well. - -Everything was ready now. No, wait! Quickly I placed a tumbler and a -decanter of brandy within easy reach and by them laid a pencil and -a pad of paper. It was when I straightened up that I first felt the -pounding in my body. My heart pulsed as if it were smashing waves of -blood through my veins. In my throat, the large arteries swelled with -pressure until I thought I would strangle. - -I had to have some physical exertion to relieve the tension. I felt -I might faint or have a stroke unless I moved about. My father had -been stricken with an embolism at about my age, and I've read such -weaknesses are inherited. - -So I walked about the house rechecking the locks of windows and -doors. Perhaps it was just to keep busy for a few more moments that -I even rechecked the pads of cardboard with which I had muffled the -bell-clappers on both telephone and door chime. I don't seem to have -had many callers for several years now, but I had to avoid any chance -of being disturbed. - - * * * * * - -Somewhat calmed by my exertion, I prepared to lie down, but a -sentimental whim moved me like an automaton toward the window. It was -the only really unreasoning thing I did. - -Like a prisoner denied the light on penalty of torture, I knelt down -and looked under the blind. Never was the Sun so dazzling. This -slightest lifting of the shade poured onto me a warmth that I had never -known before. - -An old saying, invading my mind, destroyed the illusion, and laughing a -bit nervously at "seeking his place in the Sun," I turned away and lay -down. - -The dials on my new calendar clock registered 3:15, July 12. Reaching -for my pad and pencil, I recorded this and then, refolding my hands -across my chest, I lay quite still. - -The heat of the day had begun to saturate the closed room. Outside, all -was quiet, as if the Sun had mesmerized the world. The insect hum of -the electric clock was the only clue of life around me. - -Looming large above me in the mirror, the magnified reflection of my -face calmed my mind with its placidity. Great-lidded Buddha eyes gazed -down, holding in their glow my first understanding of Nirvana. - -I knew that it had come. I had reached the boundary where the fear of -returnless going stopped the psyche just this side. - -My only body consciousness was the heavy _thud_ ... _thud_ ... _thud_ -of blood being driven through my veins. I toyed with stopping the -thudding, feeling and savoring the pause between those sledge-hammer -strokes on my brain--knowing that any one of those pauses lengthened to -eternity was death. - -Suddenly I shrieked and sat upright. For an instant, my body had -completely stopped and I had known it. Only a nameless grasping fear -had snatched me back. - -My heart beat wildly as I gasped for air. With shaking hands, I poured -a drink and gulped it down. It had been close. - -Still trembling, I arose and slumped into a chair. I had to organize -myself, to think my way along this thing. - -What had happened to me? - -This one thing I knew: I _could_ do it. I could stop my body at will -and I had done it, if only for a second. - -This thought reassured me or perhaps the brandy opened my reserve of -courage, for I had been sitting in the chair some time. - - * * * * * - -With caution, I approached the pallet. I regarded it with suspicion, as -though there were a deadly scorpion in its folds. Then, jeering at my -hesitation, I lay down and composed myself as before. The clock said -5:05. I stirred again only to record this on the pad. - -Despite my nervousness, things proceeded faster this time. A morbid -excitement carried me along the path I now already knew. And at its -end, I flirted with the _stopping_. Going over and stepping back, going -over and stepping back. - -It was a pleasure exquisite and unique. Once felt, it was unresistable. - -I was no longer afraid. I did not have to be. I could stop my body and -start it at will. So I let it slip away from me. The thuddings ceased -and only the pauses remained--silent, shapeless things in endless -procession. And then the great silence. It flowed over me and I was -lost. - -The silence was too heavy and my thoughts were not my own; they floated -up away from me in the silence. I could feel them go, but there was -nothing to bring them back. Each thought of protest winged its way -into a void with all the rest. - -And nothing else remained but the will to live. As the silence lapped -around this will, it grew until it alone was I. The silence washed -about it, but it stood. - -Then the little rippings and the slicings and the tearings and the -softening of things were there--heard without sound, felt without -feeling, like the pulling of a tooth from a novocaine-deadened jaw. - -It was then I saw the face. - -Have you ever felt the terror of suddenly waking with a face--a face -of eyes--staring into your unguarded and bewildered first glance? One -feels as if this face would look into one's very life and wrest it from -him. Perhaps it is a nascent fear of one's own mask of death. - -But I could not escape the mask. It loomed above me with gaping maw -and staring eyes; eyes that seemed more dead and deadly as my vision -cleared. The mirror enlarged the horror that lay below it. - -It was the wrench of nausea that pulled me from this nightmare. In the -violence of the retching, I rolled from beneath the mirror and raised -myself to hands and knees. I had knocked over the clock and it shouted -up at me--10:05, July 15. Three days! Too long! Too horribly long! - - * * * * * - -Slowly I dragged myself to the telephone and pulled it from the stand. -I remember nothing else until they brought me here. - -It's been eight days--eight days away from death, yet I'm closer to -it now than ever before. And I can't _think_ of it. The fear has come -crashing through and I can't _think_. - -This thing, this body is too far gone. I won't be able to make it move. -I'll just feel it getting away--little by little--ripping apart cell by -cell, and then everywhere all at once. - -I can feel it now. But in that great silence, I could almost hear the -tearing--yet there was no sound. - -The doctors have given up all hope. I can see it in their faces. I -could hear them talking among themselves when they brought me in. They -had to give it a name. There's a certain safety in a name, you know. - -I would have told them, but I was afraid they'd laugh. The nurses would -laugh and say to each other, "Have you heard what the one in 408 wanted -in his case history?" - -I couldn't stand the laughter now. - -But that's the way my chart should read--Cause of Death:--_Death!_ - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Cause of Death, by Max Tadlock - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CAUSE OF DEATH *** - -***** This file should be named 51137.txt or 51137.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/1/1/3/51137/ - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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