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} A few fall by the path -- the Oracle is forever picking them up along
} sidewalks and in the gutters of streets and consequently has bought none
} in years. Others are capable of locomotion, being in fact living
} organisms that mimic everyday objects such as pens, pencils, rubber
} bands, paper clips, and the like. The mimicry is so perfect that one
} never suspects a thing (unless one is the Oracle) -- the creatures even
} secrete ink or graphite when necessary to maintain the pretense.
}
} A researcher at a Major Midwestern University has captured some of these
} mimic-creatures and, through breeding, diet, and training, is making
} them impersonate attractive young secretaries. He expects to be able to
} sell them as pets to lonely engineers, once he solves a few little
} problems, such as how to force them to keep secretarial form for at
} least a few days. In his test trials, graduate students each received a
} mimic-creature, impersonating a pretty secretary in a revealing little
} dress, and trained to snuggle against the student and make sweet
} murmuring sounds. Within a day, every mock-secretary had changed form,
} and the unfortunate students were left with false filing-cabinets,
} deskside workstation boxes, trash cans, and the like, smeared with a bit
} of makeup, wrapped in the remains of sexy dresses, and following them
} around and snuggling up to them, making murmuring noises and smelling of
} sweet perfume. Most disconcerting when one is trying to work.
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