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He assumed at first that the same thing was happening to everybody. But it wasn't.

Who's the Deputy Premier of South Australia? he asked the workers in his pod.

Only to be greeted with blank stairs.

He knew the answer of course, that was the alarming thing.

Who was the Prime Minister of Japan in 1972, he asked again; only to be greeted with an even more confounded response.

"We're not encyclopaedia's," one of his colleagues infomred him curtly, before turning back to his terminal.

You might not be, but I am, he thought. And I don't know what to do about it.

He assumed there were others, but for a long time he didn't meet them. Every now and then he would ask a stray question; just to see.

Who was the head of the Department of Veterans Affairs in 1984?

Unfortunately, he knew the answer. But no one else did.


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