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but the entire solar system, the Periphery, and most of all, the young
Periphery.

I wish you luck,

Yours, I. Bromberg

[End of Document 1]

DOCUMENT 2: Theme: 009 "A Visit from an Old Lady"

To the President of Sector Urals-North

Date: 13 June 94

FROM: M.M. Kammerer, head of UED
THEME: 009 "A Visit from an Old Lady"
CONTENTS: the death of A. Bromberg

President!

Professor Isaac Bromberg died suddenly in the Bezhin Meadow Sanatorium
on the morning of June 11 of this year.

We have not found any notes on the Monocosm model or any notes at all
on the Wanderers in his personal files. The search continues. The medical
certificate on his death is appended.

M. Kammerer

[End of Document 2]

It was in this order that my young probationer, Toivo Glumov, read
these documents in early 95, and naturally, these documents made a very
definite impression on him, gave him very definite ideas, especially since
they supported his most gloomy expectations. The seed fell in fertile soil.
He immediately located the medical death certificate and, finding nothing
there at all to confirm his suspicions, which seemed so natural, he demanded
permission to see me.

I remember that morning well: gray, snowy, with a real blizzard outside
my office windows. Perhaps because of the contrast, because my body was
here, in the snowy Urals, and my eyes senselessly watched the streams of
melting water on the panes, while my mental gaze was on a tropical night
above a warm ocean, and a dead naked body bobbed in the phosphorescent foam
that rolled up onto the sloping sandy beach. I had just received information
from the Center about the third fatal incident on the island of Matuku.

At that moment, Toivo Glumov appeared before me, and I chased away the
vision and asked him to sit down and speak.