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Title: Collected Stories
Author: Olaf Stapledon
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Collected Stories
by

Olaf Stapledon
CONTENTS:

A MODERN MAGICIAN
EAST IS WEST
ARMS OUT OF HAND (1946)
A WORLD OF SOUND (1936)
THE SEED AND THE FLOWER (1916)
THE ROAD TO THE AIDE POST (1916)

A MODERN MAGICIAN
THEY CONFRONTED EACH OTHER ACROSS A TEA TABLE in a cottage garden. Helen was
leaning back coldly studying Jim's face. It was an oddly childish, almost foetal face, with its big brow,
snub nose, and pouting lips. Childish, yes; but in the round dark eyes there was a gleam of madness. She
had to admit that she was in a way drawn to this odd young man partly perhaps by his very childishness
and his awkward innocent attempts at lovemaking; but partly by that sinister gleam.

Jim was leaning forward, talking hard. He had been talking for a long time, but she was no longer
listening. She was deciding that though she was drawn to him she also disliked him. Why had she come
out with him again? He was weedy and self-centered. Yet she had come.