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>There was one flu season when I imagined that there were about a dozen
>of me from very close parallel universes (each tagged, for
>convenience, with a little floating number) overlapping, not quite in
>phase, as I tossed and turned in bed, and this was the source
>of my discomfort and delirium.
>

Norman Spinrad wrote of a fever which left him paranoid, delusional, and capable of using a bedpan to hold off two burly nurses while scamming and lying his way through Pentagon security with made-up priority codes. They finally managed to get him sedated, but not before Spinrad got his call forwarded to a general's home phone.

When he woke up, he was feeling much better. If I remember correctly, the FBI had also cleared everybody at the hospital while he was sedated.

Peter Eng
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