The Way Out of the Labyrinth

They scrabble over smoothly shifting steps that grow and shrink to hidden whims. If they are feeling very confident, they may lean down and stretch a curious tongue beyond their chipped teeth and rotten gums desperate to add another sense to their observances. It simply takes observation and thought and patience and above all else, intelligence. And that is what these men have in abundance. They will be the first to escape. The one who sits in the central chamber cannot remember his name, but he knows that people called him Doctor. He has spent his lives in holy objectivity, believing one gaudier not after another in the arena of publication and debate. Yes, I have simply misplaced it

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