PAINFUL REDUNDANCY
Werner Lackmann was a dapper little man who enjoyed his work as an experienced pain diagnosis technician. He was, of course, also a qualified masochist, an essential requirement for a person whose job it was to experience the pain of others and use his expertise to locate the source and probable cause of a particular affliction.
Since the invention of the technique, which involved being brain coupled to a particular patient with a relevant problem, rare people like him had suddenly found themselves in great demand.
He was the senior technical assistant to a famous neurosurgeon named Clive Pemberton-Jones, who naturally got all the credit for every successful operation. Werner, however, always did receive a generous share of the very high fee that his employer was able
