TO PAY THE PIPER
BY JAMES BLISH
Clearly, re-educating Man’s brain wouldn’t fit him for survival on the plague-ridden surface. Re-educating his body was the answer; but the process was so very long....
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THE MAN IN THE WHITE jacket stopped at the door marked “Re-Education Project—Col. H. H. Mudgett, Commanding Officer” and waited while the scanner looked him over. He had been through that door a thousand times, but the scanner made as elaborate a job of it as if it had never seen him before.
It always did, for there was always in fact a chance that it had never seen him before, whatever the fallible human beings to whom it reported might think. It went over him from grey, crew-cut poll to reagent-proof shoes, checking his small wiry body and lean profile against its stored
