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    Subversive
    Subversive
    Subversive
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    Subversive

    By Mack Reynolds and John Schoenherr

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Subversive - Mack Reynolds

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Subversive, by Dallas McCord Reynolds

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Subversive

      Author: Dallas McCord Reynolds

      Illustrator: Schoenherr

      Release Date: October 26, 2007 [EBook #23197]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SUBVERSIVE ***

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      Subversive

      Subversive is, in essence, a negative term—it

      means simply against the existent system.

      It doesn't mean subversives all agree ...

      by Mack Reynolds

      Illustrated by Schoenherr

      The young man with the brown paper bag said, Is Mrs. Coty in?

      I'm afraid she isn't. Is there anything I can do?

      You're Mr. Coty? I came about the soap. He held up the paper bag.

      Soap? Mr. Coty said blankly. He was the epitome of mid-aged husband complete to pipe, carpet slippers and office-slump posture.

      That's right. I'm sure she told you about it. My name's Dickens. Warren Dickens. I sold her—

      Look here, you mean to tell me in this day and age you go around from door to door peddling soap? Great guns, boy, you'd do better on unemployment insurance. It's permanent now.

      Warren Dickens registered distress. Mr. Coty, could I come in and tell you about it? If I can make the first delivery to you instead of Mrs. Coty, shucks, it'll save me coming back.

      Coty led him back into the living room, motioned him to a chair and settled into what was obviously his own favorite, handily placed before the telly. Coty said tolerantly, Now then, what's this about selling soap? What kind of soap? What brand?

      Oh, it has no name, sir. That's the point.

      The other looked at him.

      That's why we can sell it for three cents a cake, instead of twenty-five. Dickens opened the paper bag and fished out an ordinary enough looking cake of soap and handed it to the older man.

      Mr. Coty took it, stared down at it, turned it over in his hands. He was still blank. Well, what's different about it?

      There's nothing different about it. It's the same as any other soap.

      I mean, how come you sell it for three cents a cake, and what's the fact it has no name got to do with it?

      Warren Dickens leaned forward and went into what was obviously a strictly routine pitch. Mr. Coty, have you ever considered what you're buying when they nick you twenty-five cents on your credit card for a bar of soap in an ultra-market?

      There was an edge of impatience in the older man's

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