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with you. Conn Maxwell gave you a thousand-year-old quotation; I'll give
you another, from Thomas Paine: 'To argue with those who have renounced
the use and authority of reason is as futile as to administer medicine
to the dead.' I'll add this. Conn Maxwell knows better than this
balderdash he's been spouting to you. I don't know what his racket is,
and I'm not staying to find out. You will, though?to your regret."

He turned and strode from the room. There was a moment's silence, after
the door slammed behind him. Too bad, Conn thought. He would have made a
good friend. Now he was going to make a very nasty enemy.[Pg 38]

"Well, let's get to business," his father said. "We don't have to argue
about the existence of Merlin; we know that. Let's discuss the question
of finding it."

"I still think it's somewhere off-planet," Lorenzo Menardes said. "The
moons of Pantagruel...."