“I told you, before, that I invented a way to use wasps to detect a chemical used in printing? That was how the government found the people who distributed The Forever Argument. That death sentence you are carrying with you. My method was simple: I trained the wasps to smell the chemical signature of the book’s ink. I put the wasps in a blown-glass ball with a pinhole in it. All the interrogators had to do then was hold the hands of the suspects to the hole. If the chemical was present, the wasps gathered. The stronger the trace of ink, the more that gathered there. My wasps—they were more
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