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He
said
,
"
Isn
’
t
it
rather
disgusting
the
way
these
people
blow
their
own
horn
?
Who
would
be
fool
enough
to
believe
a
person
’
s
boastings
about
his
own
products
?
Would
he
admit
defects
?
Is
he
likely
to
stop
at
any
exaggeration
?
"
Harlan
,
whose
homewhen
was
middling
fruitful
in
advertisement
,
raised
tolerant
eyebrows
and
merely
said
,
"
You
’
ll
have
to
accept
that
.
It
’
s
their
way
and
we
never
quarrel
with
the
ways
of
any
culture
as
long
as
it
does
not
seriously
harm
mankind
as
a
whole
.
"
But
now
Harlan
’
s
mind
snapped
back
to
his
present
situation
and
he
was
back
in
the
present
,
staring
at
the
loudmouthed
,
brassy
advertisements
in
the
news
magazine
.
He
asked
himself
in
sudden
excitement
:
Were
the
thoughts
he
had
just
experienced
really
irrelevant
?
Or
was
he
tortuously
finding
a
way
out
of
the
blackness
and
back
to
Noys
?
Advertisement
!
A
device
for
forcing
the
unwilling
into
line
.
Did
it
matter
to
a
ground
-
vehicle
manufacturer
whether
a
given
individual
felt
an
original
or
spontaneous
desire
for
his
product
?
If
the
prospect
(
that
was
the
word
)
could
be
artificially
persuaded
or
cajoled
into
feeling
that
desire
and
acting
upon
it
,
would
that
not
be
just
as
well
?
Then
what
did
it
matter
if
Noys
loved
him
out
of
passion
or
out
of
calculation
?
Let
them
but
be
together
long
enough
and
she
would
grow
to
love
him
.
He
would
make
her
love
him
and
,
in
the
end
,
love
and
not
its
motivation
was
what
counted
.
He
wished
now
he
had
read
some
of
the
novels
out
of
Time
that
Finge
had
mentioned
scornfully
.
Harlan
’
s
fists
clenched
at
a
sudden
thought
.
If
Noys
had
come
to
him
,
to
Harlan
,
for
immortality
,
it
could
only
mean
that
she
had
not
yet
fulfilled
the
requirement
for
that
gift
.
She
could
have
made
love
to
no
Eternal
previously
.
That
meant
that
her
relationship
to
Finge
had
been
nothing
more
than
that
of
secretary
and
employer
.
Otherwise
what
need
would
she
have
had
for
Harlan
?
Yet
Finge
surely
must
have
tried
-
must
have
attempted
.
.
.
(
Harlan
could
not
complete
the
thought
even
in
the
secrecy
of
his
own
mind
.
)
Finge
could
have
proved
the
superstition
’
s
existence
on
his
own
person
.
Surely
he
could
not
have
missed
the
thought
with
Noys
an
everpresent
temptation
.
Then
she
must
have
refused
him
.
He
had
had
to
use
Harlan
and
Harlan
had
succeeded
.
It
was
for
that
reason
that
Finge
had
been
driven
into
the
jealous
revenge
of
torturing
Harlan
with
the
knowledge
that
Noys
’
s
motivation
had
been
a
practical
one
,
and
that
he
could
never
have
her
.
Yet
Noys
had
refused
Finge
even
with
eternal
life
at
stake
and
had
accepted
Harlan
.
She
had
that
much
of
a
choice
and
she
had
made
it
in
Harlan
’
s
favor
.
’
So
it
wasn
’
t
calculation
entirely
.
Emotion
played
a
part
.
