“I almost parted with the lira with joy. Four days of glares had gotten me down. Getting four guards to stand with blastrifles pointed at the still-cocooned Doctor Crobe's head, I worked rapidly. I got a huge case of spacecraft emergency rations– who knew how long he would be in there mucking about-and threw it into the middle of the cell floor. Reviewing his language equipment, I made sure it was adequate to teach even an idiot English. I put it on the cell table. Then, as I had before, I reali...zed there still might be inadequate incentive for him to learn the language. He had exhibited interest in the first two texts. Accordingly, I unearthed whatever I could spare on the subjects of psychology and psychiatry. It was pretty juicy stuff. It included Governmental Psychology, all about man being a lousy, stinking, (bleeping) animal that was so depraved and writhing with unconscious passions he was totally incapable of rational thought and had to be policed with clubs at every turn; Irrational Psychiatry, all about how to cure people by killing them; Psychology of Women, or How to Trick Your Wife and Mistress into Getting into the Bed of Your Best Friend; Child Psychology, all about the techniques of turning children into perverts; The Psychiatrist on the Couch, giving seventy-seven unusual ways to engage in sex with animals; Dr.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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