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The Fly-Thing 2

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Here is the trouble with a sequel. Somebody has to open the door.

Not because he's stupid — because the paperwork said inspect and secure, and a man with a clipboard is the most dangerous animal in any picture ever made. He unlatched it, he had a look, and the thing on the other side had spent the whole winter getting bigger and thinking about doors.

Now it stands up in the moonlight at its full height and it has learned the one thing a fly was never meant to learn, which is patience.

It isn't chasing anybody. It's waiting for the next fellow with a clipboard. There's always a next fellow. That is what a sequel is.

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From The Morgue

Quarantine is a counting word. In 1377 the city of Ragusa — Dubrovnik now — ordered arriving ships and crews held in isolation for thirty days before anyone could come ashore, the first such law on record. Venice and others later settled on forty, quaranta giorni, and the number stuck to the practice permanently. Nobody involved understood contagion. They understood that whatever came off a ship went into a city, and that a door held shut long enough was the only instrument anybody had. It outlived every theory invented to explain why it worked.

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