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Czernobog
said
,
"
There
is
no
such
neutral
place
.
"
"
There
’
s
one
,
"
said
Mr
.
Nancy
.
"
It
’
s
the
center
.
"
Czernobog
shook
his
head
abruptly
.
"
No
.
They
would
not
meet
us
there
.
They
can
do
nothing
to
us
,
there
.
It
is
a
bad
place
for
all
of
us
.
"
"
That
’
s
just
why
they
’
ve
proposed
to
make
the
handover
at
the
center
.
"
Czernobog
seemed
to
think
about
this
for
a
while
.
And
then
he
said
,
"
Perhaps
.
"
"
When
we
get
back
on
the
road
,
"
said
Shadow
,
"
you
can
drive
.
I
need
to
sleep
.
"
Determining
the
exact
center
of
anything
can
be
problematic
at
best
.
With
living
things
—
people
,
for
example
,
or
continents
—
the
problem
becomes
one
of
intangibles
:
What
is
the
center
of
a
man
?
What
is
the
center
of
a
dream
?
And
in
the
case
of
the
continental
United
States
,
should
one
count
Alaska
when
one
attempts
to
find
the
center
?
Or
Hawaii
?
As
the
twentieth
century
began
,
they
made
a
huge
model
of
the
USA
,
the
lower
forty
-
eight
states
,
out
of
cardboard
,
and
to
find
the
center
they
balanced
it
on
a
pin
,
until
they
found
the
single
place
it
balanced
.
Near
as
anyone
could
figure
it
out
,
the
exact
center
of
the
continental
United
States
was
several
miles
from
Lebanon
,
in
Smith
County
,
Kansas
,
on
Johnny
Grib
’
s
hog
farm
.
By
the
1930s
,
the
people
of
Lebanon
were
all
ready
to
put
a
monument
up
in
the
middle
of
the
hog
farm
,
but
Johnny
Grib
said
that
he
didn
’
t
want
millions
of
tourists
coming
in
and
tramping
all
over
and
upsetting
the
hogs
,
and
the
locals
figured
he
had
a
point
,
so
they
put
the
monument
to
the
geographical
center
of
the
United
States
two
miles
north
of
the
town
.
They
built
a
park
,
and
a
stone
monument
to
put
in
the
park
,
and
put
a
brass
plaque
to
go
on
the
monument
to
tell
you
that
you
were
indeed
looking
at
the
exact
geographic
center
of
the
United
States
of
America
.
They
blacktopped
the
road
from
the
town
to
the
little
park
,
and
,
certain
of
the
influx
of
tourists
just
waiting
to
come
to
Lebanon
,
they
even
built
a
motel
by
the
monument
.
They
brought
in
a
little
mobile
chapel
as
well
,
and
took
off
the
wheels
.
Then
they
waited
for
the
tourists
and
the
holidaymakers
to
come
:
all
the
people
who
wanted
to
tell
the
world
they
’
d
been
at
the
center
of
America
,
and
marveled
,
and
prayed
.
The
tourists
did
not
come
.
Nobody
came
.
It
’
s
a
sad
little
park
,
now
,
with
a
mobile
chapel
in
it
a
little
bigger
than
an
ice
-
fishing
hut
that
wouldn
’
t
fit
a
small
funeral
party
,
and
a
motel
whose
windows
look
like
dead
eyes
.
