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He
accepted
Duke
’
s
thanks
gravely
and
went
happily
back
to
read
the
rest
of
his
mail
.
Mike
did
not
share
Jubal
’
s
annoyance
at
the
avalanche
of
mail
;
he
reveled
in
it
,
the
insurance
ads
quite
as
much
as
the
marriage
proposals
.
His
trip
to
the
Palace
had
opened
his
eyes
to
the
enormous
variety
in
this
world
and
he
was
resolved
to
grok
it
all
.
He
could
see
that
it
would
take
him
several
centuries
and
that
he
must
grow
and
grow
and
grow
,
but
he
was
undaunted
and
in
no
hurry
–
he
grokked
that
eternity
and
the
everbeautifully
-
changing
now
were
identical
.
He
had
decided
not
to
reread
the
Encyclopedia
Britannica
;
the
flood
of
mail
gave
him
brighter
glimpses
of
the
world
.
He
read
it
,
grokked
what
he
could
,
remembered
the
rest
for
contemplation
at
night
while
the
household
slept
.
From
these
nights
of
meditation
he
was
beginning
,
he
thought
,
to
grok
"
business
,
"
and
"
money
,
"
and
"
buying
,
"
and
"
selling
,
"
and
related
un
-
Martian
activities
–
the
articles
in
the
Encyclopedia
had
always
left
him
feeling
unfilled
,
as
(
he
now
grokked
)
each
one
had
assumed
that
he
knew
many
things
that
he
did
not
know
.
But
there
arrived
in
the
mail
,
from
Mr
.
Secretary
General
Joseph
Edgerton
Douglas
,
a
check
book
and
other
papers
,
and
his
brother
Jubal
had
taken
great
pains
to
explain
to
him
what
money
was
and
how
it
was
used
.
Mike
had
failed
utterly
to
understand
it
at
first
,
even
though
Jubal
showed
him
how
to
make
out
his
first
check
,
gave
him
"
money
"
in
exchange
for
it
,
taught
him
how
to
count
it
.
Then
suddenly
,
with
a
grokking
so
blinding
that
he
trembled
and
forced
himself
not
to
withdraw
,
he
understood
the
abstract
symbolic
nature
of
money
.
These
pretty
pictures
and
bright
medallions
were
not
"
money
"
;
they
were
concrete
symbols
for
an
abstract
idea
which
spread
all
through
these
people
,
all
through
their
world
.
But
these
things
were
not
money
,
any
more
than
water
shared
in
water
ceremony
was
the
growing
-
closer
.
Water
was
not
necessary
to
the
ceremony
?
and
these
pretty
things
were
not
necessary
to
money
.
Money
was
an
idea
,
as
abstract
as
an
Old
One
’
s
thoughts
–
money
was
a
great
structured
symbol
for
balancing
and
healing
and
growing
closer
.
Mike
was
dazzled
with
the
magnificent
beauty
of
money
.
The
flow
and
change
and
countermarching
of
the
symbols
was
another
matter
,
beautiful
in
small
,
but
reminding
him
of
games
taught
to
nestlings
to
encourage
them
to
learn
to
reason
correctly
and
grow
.
It
was
the
total
structure
that
dazzled
him
,
the
idea
that
an
entire
world
could
be
reflected
in
one
dynamic
,
completely
interconnected
,
symbol
structure
.
Mike
grokked
then
that
the
Old
Ones
of
this
race
were
very
old
indeed
to
have
composed
such
beauty
,
and
he
wished
humbly
that
he
might
soon
be
allowed
to
meet
one
of
them
.
Jubal
encouraged
him
to
spend
some
of
his
money
and
Mike
did
so
,
with
the
timid
,
uncertain
eagerness
of
a
bride
being
brought
to
bed
.
Jubal
suggested
that
he
"
buy
presents
for
his
friends
"
and
Jill
helped
him
with
it
,
starting
by
placing
arbitrary
limits
:
only
one
present
for
each
friend
and
a
total
cost
that
was
not
even
a
reciprocal
filled
-
three
of
the
sum
that
had
been
placed
to
his
account
–
Mike
’
s
original
intention
had
been
to
spend
all
of
that
pretty
balance
on
his
friends
.
