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    Two Plus Two Makes Crazy
    Two Plus Two Makes Crazy
    Two Plus Two Makes Crazy
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    Two Plus Two Makes Crazy

    By Walter J. Sheldon

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Two Plus Two Makes Crazy - Walter J. Sheldon

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Two Plus Two Makes Crazy, by Walt Sheldon

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      Title: Two Plus Two Makes Crazy

      Author: Walt Sheldon

      Release Date: May 20, 2009 [EBook #28894]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TWO PLUS TWO MAKES CRAZY ***

      Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      Walt Sheldon is bitter-bright in this imaginative short satire of Man's sell-out by a group of staunch believers in the infallibility of numbers.

      two

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      by ... Walt Sheldon

      The Computer could do no wrong. Then it was asked a simple little question by a simple little man.

      The little man had a head like an old-fashioned light bulb and a smile that seemed to say he had secrets from the rest of the world. He didn't talk much, just an occasional Oh, Mm or Ah. Krayton figured he must be all right, though. After all he'd been sent to Computer City by the Information Department itself, and his credentials must have been checked in a hundred ways and places.

      "Essentially each computer is

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