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Boateh waved his tentacle. "No mind. One must wonder if Einstein, himself, was almost
brainless& and yet, they say his brain had more mass than the average bear. Literally, do
you think?"
He seemed awed by the whole prospect.
"The entire subject seems impossible to me," I flatly stated.
"But probable in theory. The mathematical community endowed Schwartzchild with a grant."
He looked down at me through his glass. "Quite a large grant."
"Where is he now?"
"He's a patient here."
I missed my step.
"Would you like to meet him?"
"Perhaps later, Doctor. Perhaps later."
We curved around the corridor to the first of the patient rooms on the tour. Outside of Room
1313, we gazed through the window at the hapless being within.
"What's the pathology?" I whispered even though I knew the patient couldn't hear me through
the sound barrier.
"A case of too many personalities."
"As in multiple personality disorder?"
"Not exactly the same. This Kneph displays multiple-multiple personality disorder. "
"How bizarre; what are the symptoms?"
"Knephs have six separate and distinct personalities. Normally, we see the lover, the
intellectual, the artist, the prolocutor, the poet, and the master chef. This poor Kneph's
psyche has fractured into two additional personalities, which we have identified as the loner
and God. We endeavor to cure this."
"Amazing." I frantically scribbled some notes into my reporter's notebook; they were
immediately absorbed into my Apple fingerbook/pinkypod.
"Right now, this Kneph is due for his anti-grav bath." He lowered his voice to a confidential
murmur. "They sleep like Suet afterwards." He grinned.
Suet spent 100% of their lives snoring in mud it was a good analogy. I wrote it down in the
fingerbook and grinned back.
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I looked into the next room. Three chaps sat facing each other, apparently having a heated
staring contest. I recognized their species as Yutz; although I only had a passing
acquaintance with this species. They usually seemed friendly enough; but in a really
annoying sort of way.
Yutz were often called 'four eyes'. Not because they wore spectacles.
They actually had four eyes.
Their eye sockets were located within the tips of filament-like tentacles. (I had often seen
them wave about after a few good drinks in a bar! But I digress& )
All twelve of these tendril/orbs were locked together with the intent of staring down the facing
eyeball. None of the eyes blinked.
"Lock and load."
"What's their condition, Doc?"
"He's schizophrenic."
"And the other two?"
"There's only one Yutz in there."
"Excuse me, Dr. Boateh, but I see three distinct beings in there."
"Of course you do; however, there is only one patient in there!"
"Now I'm really confused."
"Allow me to elaborate. Yutzes are. . . well, you're from Earth originally, are you not?"
"My ancestral line, yes."
"I believe there was a fungus on Earth called yeast are you familiar with it?"
"Of course I am. Yeast is very important to "
"Well, Yutzes are similar to yeast in their physiological and psychological makeup."
"Get out of here. Yeast are unicellular fungi that "
"I am serious. Naturally, a Yutz is much more complex than yeast& " He stroked his forelock.
"I'll try to put it in layman's terms& Sometimes yeast cells will secrete a thickened wall. A
barrier. During this time, inside a single cell, the cytoplasm will divide into four cells, which
emerge after the barrier is ruptured. The point is, when a Yutz suffers a break down like
yeast it really breaks down. Into three separate parts. One part retains the ego; another,
the id, and the final part retains the superego."
"That's fascinating! If only Freud and the psychoanalyst formerly known as & knew about "
"Yes, but it gets better." His third eye twinkled. "In this species, one part cannot function
without the other two parts. Once the unconscious division of the psyche physically
separates with the breakdown, all functioning ceases. The Yutz is forced to sit and stare at
himself; his counterparts."
"What is he looking for?"
"From what we can tell, each part is simultaneously trying to figure out what is so special
about the other two parts that make them vital to its survival."
"Is it curable?"
"It is difficult; but, eventually, yes. Unfortunately, this patient has a long way to go. At this
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