THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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is completely buried. After it was made, no human touched it. The men
who were here and used it in the War communicated with it only by radio."

That could be so. There were fully robotic computers, intended for use
in places where no human could go and live. There was a big one on
Nifflheim, armored against the fluorine atmosphere and the
hydrofluoric-acid rains. But there was no point in that here, the things
were enormously complicated, and military engineering of any sort
emphasized simplicity?/Aaaagh!/ Was he beginning to believe this
balderdash himself?

Klem Zareff fell in with him as they were going to dinner. "Revealed in
a dream!" the old Rebel snorted. "One thing[Pg 135] you can always get
away with lying about is what you dream."

"You think he's lying? I think he's just crazy."