THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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"You admit you couldn't learn anything about this so-called Merlin, but
you're still certain it exists?"

"Why are you certain it doesn't?"

"Why, the whole thing's absurdly fantastic!"

"Maybe it is, to a layman like you. I studied computers, and it isn't to
me."

"Well, take all these elaborate preparations against space attack you
were telling us about. I think Colonel Zareff, here, who served in the
Alliance Army, will bear me out that such an attack was plainly impossible."

Zareff started to agree, then realized that he was aiding and comforting
the enemy. "Intelligence lag," he said. "What do you expect, with
General Headquarters thirty parsecs from the fighting?"