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as a conscientious "scientist" should. After that, the Food of the Gods
sounded blatant to the pitch of indecency. He was surprised he had used
the expression. Yet for all that something of that clear-eyed moment
hung about him and broke out ever and again....
"
Really, you know," he said, rubbing his hands together and laughing
nervously, "it has more than a theoretical interest.
"For example," he confided, bringing his face close to the Professor's
and dropping to an undertone, "it would perhaps, if suitably handled,
sell....
"Precisely," he said, walking away,--"as a Food. Or at least a food
ingredient.
"Assuming of course that it is palatable. A thing we cannot know till we
have prepared it."
He turned upon the hearthrug, and studied the carefully designed slits
upon his cloth shoes.
"Name?" he said, looking up in response to an inquiry. "For my part I
incline to the good old classical allusion. It--it makes Science res--.
Gives it a touch of old-fashioned dignity. I have been thinking ... I
don't know if you will think it absurd of me.... A little fancy is
surely occasionally permissible.... Herakleophorbia. Eh? The nutrition
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