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But first, here this. Our X minus One. Our story. Selana by James E. Gunn. My name is Norman Blake, statistician, First Class. At 2.30 p.m. on Monday, October 21st, in the year 2055, I became a deviant.

I left my job an hour early. To deviate from the norm was unheard of in a perfectly adjusted society, such as ours. Thanks to the great psychologist, Kinder, we had a society where everybody's job suited as talents and needs, where children were raised scientifically, and where everyone lived happily on an even keel instead of swinging back and forth from gloom to ecstasy. Then

I noticed it, the single flaw in the perfect system. Come in. Yes, Norm. Henry, I'd like to talk to you for a moment of privately. I close the door. It's rather unusual for me to see one of my statisticians privately, but since we're old friends.

Something rather serious has come up. Oh. As you know, my duty is to check the computers, to make certain there are no deviations. Yes. morning I ran over the figures for our district. Here is the sheet. The deviation is near the bottom.