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correctly read those secret, censored portions
of the epidemiologists' report.Item:abortions,
both spontaneous and not, are much
more common every term; so too are such
once-rare events as murder, arson, cheating,
robbery, riot, rape, divorce, wife-beating.
Morale is low, inflation high; vice thrives;
we're losing accreditation and our wives.
Famine, stillbirth, crime, despair, the pox --
fact is, sir, Cadmus eis on the rocks.

TALIPED:What else is new?

COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN: Well, sir, to be sure,
we understand that, while you're brilliant, you're
no passèd Founder; that however keen
your intellect, after all you're just a dean --
and young besides, in years if not in mind.

TALIPED:[Aside]