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Item
Four
:
research
.
Twofold
research
.
For
himself
,
first
.
Each
day
,
with
ferreting
eyes
,
he
went
through
the
reports
on
Twissell
’
s
desk
.
The
reports
concerned
the
various
Reality
Changes
being
scheduled
or
suggested
.
Copies
went
to
Twissell
routinely
since
he
was
a
member
of
the
Allwhen
Council
,
and
Harlan
knew
he
would
not
miss
one
.
He
looked
first
for
the
coming
Change
in
the
482nd
.
Secondly
he
looked
for
other
Changes
,
any
other
Changes
,
that
might
have
a
flaw
,
an
imperfection
,
some
deviation
from
maximum
excellence
that
might
be
visible
to
his
own
trained
and
talented
Technician
’
s
eyes
.
In
the
strictest
sense
of
the
word
the
reports
were
not
for
his
study
,
but
Twissell
was
rarely
in
his
office
these
days
,
and
no
one
else
saw
fit
to
interfere
with
Twissell
’
s
personal
Technician
.
That
was
one
part
of
his
research
.
The
other
took
place
in
the
575th
Section
branch
of
the
library
.
For
the
first
time
he
ventured
out
of
those
portions
of
the
library
which
,
ordinarily
,
monopolized
his
attention
.
In
the
past
he
had
haunted
the
section
on
Primitive
history
(
very
poor
indeed
,
so
that
most
of
his
references
and
source
materials
had
to
be
derived
from
the
far
downwhen
of
the
3rd
millennium
,
as
was
only
natural
,
of
course
)
.
To
an
even
greater
extent
he
had
ransacked
the
shelves
devoted
to
Reality
Change
,
its
theory
,
technique
,
and
history
;
an
excellent
collection
(
best
in
Eternity
outside
the
Central
branch
itself
,
thanks
to
Twissell
)
of
which
he
had
made
himself
full
master
.
Now
he
wandered
curiously
among
the
other
film
-
racks
.
For
the
first
time
he
Observed
(
in
the
capital
-
O
sense
)
the
racks
devoted
to
the
575th
itself
;
its
geographies
,
which
varied
little
from
Reality
to
Reality
,
its
histories
,
which
varied
more
,
and
its
sociologies
,
which
varied
still
more
.
These
were
not
the
books
or
reports
written
about
the
Century
by
Observing
and
Computing
Eternals
(
with
those
he
was
familiar
)
,
but
by
the
Timers
themselves
.
There
were
the
works
of
literature
of
the
575th
and
these
stirred
memories
of
tremendous
arguments
he
had
heard
of
concerning
the
values
of
alternate
Changes
.
Would
this
masterpiece
be
altered
or
not
?
If
so
,
how
?
How
did
past
Changes
affect
works
of
art
?
For
that
matter
,
could
there
ever
be
general
agreement
about
art
?
Could
it
ever
be
reduced
to
quantitative
terms
amenable
to
mechanical
evaluation
by
the
Computing
machines
?
