“LIEUTENANT, YOU’RE now asking me to describe to you how someone might rig the Kentucky Derby in a world full of expert telepaths and perceptives and manipulators, a large number of which will be rather well-paid to lend their extrasensory power to the process of keeping the Derby pure.”
He eyed me sourly. “Remember, ‘Fireman’ O’Leary?”
“That’s an unfair allegation,” I replied. “The rumor that he started the Chicago Fire is absolutely unfounded.”
“As I recall, ‘Fireman’ O’Leary came by his nickname about one hundred years after the h*******t that started on DeKoven Street in 1871. It seems that ‘Fireman’ O’Leary was most useful in helping the fillies home at Washington Park by assaulting them in the region of the bangtail with small bollops of pure incandescence. He was a pyrotic.”
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