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“As I told you," he said patiently, "I'm a student of sociology, which is the science of human society." There wasn't any point in telling her that the course was actually criminology. That might be offensive. There didn't seem to be much point in telling her anything, for that matter. "They made a science out of people?" she said. "What a crazy science that must be.”

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While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction

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