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This is a preview of: Phoebus Krumm

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Splash Page

A room, at least three football fields long, three football fields
wide, filled, almost shoulder-to-shoulder, with people in their
Monopolitan finery. Among them, a smattering of aliens. The ceiling is
at least three hundred feet high, maybe more.

Far away at the back is a canopied semicircular dais with steps
going up to a throne. (A few yards away on either side, are a pair of
TV cameras, covered in cloth shrouds at the moment.) Above the canopy,
what looks like a lighted electronic highway warning sign.

'THE CEO IS OUT'

Near the foreground, Demondion-Echeverria and Krumm are being led
by servants from one side of the panel to the other.

In the foreground, people are dressed in that typical combination
of Victorian and Elizabethan clothing. Most of them have masks --
carried on sticks, and many of the masks are of famous historical
characters: Jack Kennedy, Alfred Hitchcock, Machiavelli, Jerry Lewis,
Mother Theresa, Waldo, Carmen San Diego, etc.

The smattering of aliens -- flatsies and stiquemen, perhaps an
Ewon and an Ogat or two, visiting from the Coordinated Arm -- wears no
masks.

Servant: 'This way, gentlebeings, if you please.'