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\" This master file produces text suitable for a 6"x9" paperback. .ds CH \" turn off page numbering (top) .B .nr HM 1i \" header margin .nr FM 1i \" footer margin .nr LL 4.25i \" line length .pl 9i \" page length .po .87i \" page offset (from left) .nr PS 8 \" font point size \" .kern \" pairwise kerning (groff only) .hy 14 \" automatic hyphenation \" .nr VS 24 \" double space .fp 1 R GA \" URW Garamond .fp 2 I GI .fp 3 B GM .fp 4 BI GMI .fp 5 CW H \" Helvetica .LP \& .nr % 27 \ " start with this page number .ds CF [%] \" first numbered page (bottom) .ps 10 .ce .B NEW PALIMPSEST \& .ps 8 tags: 1961, Æsir, mars2, tab1 .R .PP .ps 10 1 October. Early. .PP .ps 10 The Æsir had founded the test site. Discovered it, TAB1 guessed. It was here before any of the rest of us were, put it that way. Cold at night. TAB1 scanned the desert and imagined the flat plane of frost resolving into a three thousand word SPIN cover story about Juliana Hatfield. Oh yeah, he remembered reading this one a few years back. Hatfield had gained favor with some \fIáss\fR up the chain, and now every time words were committed to paper her name must needs be mentioned. All right. .PP .ps 10 Completely unlike his own assignment here. He'd backtrack across the blank desert, unknowingly carrying out the same tests and capturing the same data that had not been properly documented so many times before. Nobody would be reading his reports, either. But boxes must needs be checked. Whatever product this was supporting had better be good. .PP .ps 10 It was snowing.