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come to a point where they start getting rid of the bad
qualities of the character they've chosen. But they keep the
good features.

"It's rather like a snake shedding its skin. The patient's
uncontrolled delusions, the undesirable emotional factors


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which brought him or her here, are gradually replaced by
controlled delusions. The controlled delusions are those
which the patient adopts when he or she becomes, in a
sense, the character in the series.

"There's much more to the treatment than this, but you'll
understand that as therapy proceeds. You follow me?"

JO

"So far," Jim said. "This really works, right?"

"The failure rate is phenomenally low. In your case, even
though you've read the series, you will have to reread it.
The World of Tiers will be your Bible, your key to health if
you work with it and at it."

Jim was silent for a while. He was considering the series
and also wondering which character—some of them were
really vicious—he would like to adopt. To become, as the
doctor said.

The basic premise of the series was that, many thousands
of years ago, only one universe had existed. On one planet
only in that universe was there life. The end of its
evolutionary path was a species that resembled humans.
These had attained a science vastly exceeding anything
Earth had ever known. Eventually, the humans had been
able to make artificial pocket universes.

So knowledgeable and powerful were these beings, they
were able to alter the laws of physics governing each
individual pocket universe. Thus, the rate of acceleration in
a fall toward the center of gravity could be made different
from that in the original world. Another example, one
pocket world might contain a single sun and a single planet.
The World of Tiers, for example. This was an Earth-sized
planet shaped like a terraced Tower of Babylon. Its tiny sun
and tiny moon revolved around it.