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"
Perhaps
you
ought
to
.
It
would
give
you
a
greater
breadth
of
view
.
You
would
become
less
concerned
about
the
details
of
a
woman
’
s
costume
,
less
disturbed
about
her
possible
personal
relations
with
other
Eternals
.
"
Harlan
left
,
speechless
with
rage
.
He
found
it
almost
impossible
to
perform
his
near
-
daily
trek
into
the
482nd
(
the
longest
continuous
period
remaining
something
under
two
hours
.
)
He
was
upset
,
and
he
knew
why
.
Finge
!
Finge
,
and
his
coarse
advice
concerning
liaisons
with
Timers
.
Liaisons
existed
.
Everyone
knew
that
.
Eternity
had
always
been
aware
of
the
necessity
for
compromising
with
human
appetites
(
to
Harlan
the
phrase
carried
a
quivery
repulsion
)
,
but
the
restrictions
involved
in
choosing
mistresses
made
the
compromise
anything
but
lax
,
anything
but
generous
.
And
those
who
were
lucky
enough
to
qualify
for
such
an
arrangement
were
expected
to
be
most
discreet
about
it
,
out
of
common
decency
and
consideration
for
the
majority
.
Among
the
lower
classes
of
Eternals
,
particularly
among
Maintenance
,
there
were
always
the
rumors
(
half
hopeful
,
half
resentful
)
of
women
imported
on
a
more
or
less
permanent
basis
for
the
obvious
reasons
.
Always
rumor
pointed
to
the
Computers
and
Life
-
Plotters
as
the
benefiting
groups
.
They
and
only
they
could
decide
which
women
could
be
abstracted
from
Time
without
danger
of
significant
Reality
Change
.
Less
sensational
(
and
therefore
less
tongue
-
worthy
)
were
the
stories
concerning
the
Timer
employees
that
every
Section
engaged
temporarily
(
when
spatio
-
temporal
analysis
permitted
)
to
perform
the
tedious
tasks
of
cooking
,
cleaning
,
and
heavy
labor
.
But
a
Timer
,
and
such
a
Timer
,
employed
as
"
secretary
,
"
could
only
mean
that
Finge
was
thumbing
a
nose
at
the
ideals
that
made
Eternity
what
it
was
.
Regardless
of
the
facts
of
life
to
which
the
practical
men
of
Eternity
made
a
perfunctory
obeisance
it
remained
true
that
the
ideal
Eternal
was
a
dedicated
man
living
for
the
mission
he
had
to
perform
,
for
the
betterment
of
Reality
and
the
improvement
of
the
sum
of
human
happiness
.
Harlan
liked
to
think
that
Eternity
was
like
the
rnonasteries
of
Primitive
times
.
