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Allen. planets. 118 REVELATIONS he had the ability to travel psychically to the world of the other Kirk Dr. Lindner soon realized two things—first, that his patient was utterly mad; second, that his psychosis was life-sustaining and would be very difficult to manage. He requested that Kirk turn over to him the documents on which his research was based. It is impossible to convey more than a bare impression of Kirk's records . . . There were, to begin with, about twelve thousand pages of typescript comprising the amended biography of Kirk Allen. This was divided into some 200 chapters and read like fiction. Appended to these pages were approximately 200 more of notes in Kirk's handwriting, containing corrections necessitated by his more recent "researches," and a huge bundle of scraps and jottings on envelopes, receipted bills, laundry slips, sheets from memo pads, etc.; these latter were largely incomprehensible since they were written in Kirk's private shorthand, while some of them were little more than hasty designs or sketches, mathematical equations, or symbolic representations of something or other: each, however, was carefully numbered and lettered with red pencil to indicate where it belonged in the main script. In addition to this bulky manuscript and its appendages there were: 1. A glossary of names and terms that ran to more than 100 pages. 2. 82 full-color maps carefully drawn to scale, 23 of planetary bodies in four projections, 31 of land masses on these planets, 14 labeled "Kirk Allen's Expedition to —," the remainder of cities on the various 3. 61 architectural sketches and elevations, some colored, some drawn only in ink, but all carefully scaled and annotated. 4. Twelve genealogical tables. 5. An eighteen-page description of the galactic system in which Kirk Allen's home planet was contained, with four astronomical charts, one for each of the seasons, and nine star maps of the skies from observato- ries on other planets in the system.