Aide Memoire
By Keith Laumer
17 Feb, 2020
Across the table from Retief, Ambassador Magnan rustled a stiff sheet of parchment and looked grave.
"This aide memoire," he said, "was just handed to me by the Cultural Attache. It's the third on the subject this week. It refers to the matter of sp
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Across the table from Retief, Ambassador Magnan rustled a stiff sheet of parchment and looked grave.
"This aide memoire," he said, "was just handed to me by the Cultural Attache. It's the third on the subject this week. It refers to the matter of sponsorship of Youth groups—"
"Some youths," Retief said. "Average age, seventy-five."
"The Fustians are a long-lived people," Magnan snapped. "These matters are relative. At seventy-five, a male Fustian is at a trying age—"
"That's right. He'll try anything—in the hope it will maim somebody." Less