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Yea h , by way of fami liari zing him.
Matilda will familiarize him , eh l ..
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No way. If anyone takes him to
Silia/I Lake,
it's going to be m e.
W ell , if you insist.
Minister of Culture, after all.
That will be Cecilia's swan so ng.
Ha ha ha.
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Besides, if reelected, then no Li.ibeck.
N eith er Biarritz nor Prove nce.
They mi ght reel ect.
Yea h , come to think of it, this job caIlle with tcnurc.
NOlllfllklatllr,
after all .
N-yes. N o Paris, eith er.
Well , for this eve ntu ality , gentlcmen l11inisters, we've got a so luti o n.
I
Taps card–
board box.]
And , by th e same token, thc natio n has o ne too.
Wh at do you have in mind , Basil
Mod cstovi c h ~
This.
Wh at, thi s?
Wh at's in th e box .
And what's th at l
It conta ins ...
W ait a minute , wa it a minute, Bas il Modestovich. Do n't say it. I know. I'll tell
you in a second . It contains ..
A watermelon'
Telescope!
A VCR!
Barking up the wrong tree, lady and gc ntlemcn. SOl11C nervc centcr' It contains
th e future of the country as a whole, and us in parti cular. In pl ain words, a com–
puter.
In what se nse, us l
Yo u mean to work o n it, is itl
