Out of My Mind by John Brunner

Author:John Brunner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 1967-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

At first he found himself calling Norstein every couple of hours, until Norstein had a fit of irritability and slammed the phone down. After that, he confined himself to daily inquiries. There was nothing to justify even that frequent an interrogation.

For some while Smith behaved just as anyone would, left to do nothing in a comfortable apartment. He read voluminously—but then, Norstein remarked, he’d been doing that since he was five years old. Sometimes he played records or watched the TV. He wrote several letters to friends. Each day he underwent a thorough check of his physical condition and an exhaustive series of EEG readings. No change.

After a week he decided he wanted to learn to play the guitar; he spent four days doggedly fumbling his way through a series of exercises and then began to pick out tunes by ear. Norstein was jubilant when Wheelwell called him after this innovation.

“I tell you, there just wasn’t room in that boy’s memory for the auditory and kinesthetic information involved in playing an instrument. Damn it, I cleaned out hunks of his brain myself to make extra room. And so far as we can determine, he hasn’t forgotten anything he knew previously. This indicates that the treatment took. Tell Holiday, will you?”

“Certainly. Look, would you mind if I came down and called on Smith this evening?” Wheelwell wondered what the answer might be; he was vaguely surprised when it came.

“An excellent idea. We’ll invite ourselves to have dinner with him, how about that?”

“Perfect,” said Wheelwell mechanically. “About seven?”

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