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I am a Nucleus By STEPHEN BARR Illustrated by GAUGHAN [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction February 1957. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] No doubt whatever about it, I had the Indian sign on me ... When I got home from the office, I was not so much tired as beaten down, but the effect is similar. The present downtown temperature, according to the radio, was eighty-seven degrees, but according to my Greenwich Village thermometer, it was ninety-six. What do they do, I asked myself, that I have left undone? I didn't notice the impending rain storm and had no umbrella when I reached the sidewalk, to find myself confronted with an almost tropical downpour. "Madison and Fifty-fourth," I said. Whizzing traffic held me up at each crossing and I was soaked when I reached the platform, just in time to miss the local. As I walked across to Madison Avenue, I passed a big excavation where they were getting ready to put up a new office building. There was the usual crowd of buffs watching the digging machines and, in particular, a man with a pneumatic drill who was breaking up some hard-packed clay. At the moment of the explosion—if so feeble a thing can be called one—I felt something sting my face and, on touching it, found blood on my hand. During the day, by actual count, I heard the phrase "I'm just spitballing" eight times, and another Madison Avenue favorite, "The whole ball of wax," twelve times. However, my story had been accepted without change because nobody had noticed my absence from the conference room. There you have what is known as the Advertising World, the Advertising game or the advertising racket, depending upon which rung of the ladder you have achieved.
 Alec is at the center of all the coincidental behavior
 When Mr. and Mrs. Graham are apart, a major imbalance persists  McGill is manipulating Alec as part of a social experiment  Alec is at the center of all the coincidental behavior  Alec possesses supernatural abilities that will eventually destroy  him