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arms and smile, quickly clutched his hair and agreed that Classmate X, himself so perfectly disciplined, would of course despise him for his "incompetencehood" in getting himself arrested. But for a man whose desire to please his father was as obviously sincere as was Leonid's, this profession of disgrace had a counterfeit ring. In any case his arrest was not what I'd been referring to, I told him, but his motive and intention. I conceded at the outset that Informationalismwas based on a kind of flunking avarice, and that particular Informationalists like Ira Hector were to all appearances irredeemably greedy:Flunkèd are the selfish, it was written in the Founder's Scroll, and nowise might flunked mean passed.
"Da! Da!"the Nikolayan cried happily. "Even other Grand Tutor -- I don't believe, I don't like either! -- he says too!"
Very well, then, I said (concealing my chagrin), it was agreed on both sides of the Power Line that selfishness was reprehensible. But Leonid's behavior seemed to me selfish -- in the sense of vanity more than of avarice -- both in its intention and its motive. Recalling
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