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    Measure for a Loner
    Measure for a Loner
    Measure for a Loner
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    Measure for a Loner

    By Jim Harmon

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Measure for a Loner - Jim Harmon

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Measure for a Loner, by James Judson Harmon

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      Title: Measure for a Loner

      Author: James Judson Harmon

      Release Date: September 14, 2007 [EBook #22596]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MEASURE FOR A LONER ***

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      You can measure everything these days—heat, light, gravity, reflexes, force-fields, star-drives. And now I know there even is a ...

      MEASURE FOR A LONER

      By JIM HARMON

      SO, GENERAL, I came in to tell you I've found the loneliest man in the world for the Space Force.

      How am I supposed to rate his loneliness for you? In Megasorrows or Kilofears? I suspect I know quite a library on the subject, but you know more about stripes and bars. Don't try to stop me this time, General.

      Now that you mention it, I'm not drunk. I had to have something to back me up so I stopped off at the dispensary and stole a needle.

      I want you to get off my back with that kind of talk. I've got enough there—it bends me over like I had bad kidneys. It isn't any of King Kong's little brothers. They over rate the stuff. It isn't the way you've been riding me either. Never mind what I'm carrying. Whatever it is—and believe me, it is—I have to get rid of it.

      Let me tell it, for God's sake.

      Then for Security's sake? I thought you would let me tell it, General.

      I've been coming in here and giving you pieces of it for months but now I want to let you be drenched in the whole thing. You're going to take it all.

      There were the two of them, the two lonely men, and I found them for you.

      You remember the way I found them for you.

      The intercom on my blond desk made an electronic noise at me and the words I had been arranging in my mind for the morning letters splattered into alphabet soup like a printer

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