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STRIP TEASE OEMII?" 121 real for the sake of his therapist, who was now so utterly caught up in a fantasy that was fulfilling a need in his own life. Kirk Allen returned to his research work with the government, leav- ing Dr. Lindner with the problem of curing himself. That section of his book is perhaps the most remarkable part of the record: Until Kirk Allen came into my life I had never doubted my own stability. The aberrations of mind . . . were for others ... It has been years since I saw Kirk Allen, but I think of him often, and of the days when we roamed the galaxies together. On long summer nights on Long Island when the sky was filled with stars, Dr. Lindner would look up, smile to himself and whisper: "How goes it with the Crystopeds? How are things in Seraneb?" And I am similarly tempted to ask: "Is there peace in IUMMA? And are the Ummites truly pleased with the transcendental function of