To Colleen he said, “I’ve learned the thing from these spools of Fischer’s two documentaries of 1982 that I’m supposed to learn, so I guess I can knock off.” He rose, picked up the spools. “What I learned was this. Earlier today I saw and heard a speech by a twenty-two-year-old young new Yance-man and it scared me, and then I scanned these two versions of Fischer’s 1982 documentary, and what I learned was this.” She waited, expectantly, with feminine, earth-mother patience. “Even Fischer,” he said, “the greatest of us all, couldn’t have competed with David Lantano.” This was what he had
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