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Show -62- blood pressure, gallstones, kidney misfunction, liver ailments, and tumors. later they began to pry into his mental processes and emotions: Which did he enjoy most, association with his own sex or the opposite sex? Which gave him the most satisfaction, giving orders or taking them? Did he find it pleasant going to the bathroom? or was it a chore? How often did he find himself hating people with whom he was forced to associate, frequently or seldom? Did he hate, love, or was he indifferent to, his mother? His father? Glancing about the table at the other examinees, the Professor wondered what they made of such questions. Across from him, he could see the gray head of an old Chinese lady, cluth-ing her pencil in her fist like a brush, pursing her lips, staring at her card with lowered eyelids. Most of those being examined were old. Most of the attendants were young, taught, he supposed, to do only this one job, exhuding youth and authority in their white jackets and dresses? They moved silently, like funeral directors, behind the table. It was the same when he got to the more physical sequences of the examination. The blonde girl with enormous breasts who bent over him to take his blood pressure, clutching his wrist with three fingers, gazing at the pressure guage with her bright blue eyes while he attempted not to focus too ob-vioisly on the fleshy globes just a few inches away. Mp The cheerful skinny girl who took his x-rays, uttering witticisms with the practice of a tour guide? The disinterested, |