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    The Man Who Played to Lose
    The Man Who Played to Lose
    The Man Who Played to Lose
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    The Man Who Played to Lose

    By Douglas and Laurence M. Janifer

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Man Who Played to Lose - Douglas

      Project Gutenberg's The Man Who Played to Lose, by Laurence Mark Janifer

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      Title: The Man Who Played to Lose

      Author: Laurence Mark Janifer

      Illustrator: Douglas

      Release Date: October 15, 2009 [EBook #30259]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MAN WHO PLAYED TO LOSE ***

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      This etext was produced from Analog Science Fact & Fiction October 1961. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      THE

      MAN WHO

      PLAYED TO LOSE

      By LARRY M. HARRIS

      Sometimes the very best thing you can do is to lose. The cholera germ, for instance, asks nothing better than that it be swallowed alive....

      Illustrated by Douglas

      hen I came into the control room the Captain looked up from a set of charts at me. He stood up and gave me a salute and I returned it, not making a ceremony out of it. Half an hour to landing, sir, he said.

      That irritated me. It always irritates me. I'm not an officer, I said. I'm not even an enlisted man.

      He nodded, too quickly. Yes, Mr. Carboy, he said. Sorry.

      I sighed. If you want to salute, I told him, "if it makes you happier to salute, you go right ahead. But don't call me 'Sir.' That would make me an officer, and I wouldn't like being an officer. I've met too many of them."

      It didn't make him angry. He wasn't anything except subservient and awed and anxious to please. Yes, Mr. Carboy, he said.

      I searched in my pockets for a cigarette and found a cup of them and stuck one into my mouth. The Captain was right there with a light, so I took it from him. Then I offered him a cigarette. He thanked me as if it had been a full set of Crown Jewels.

      What difference did it make whether or not he called me Sir? I was still God to him, and there wasn't much I could do about it.

      Did you want something, Mr. Carboy? he asked me, puffing on the cigarette.

      I nodded. Now that we're getting close, I told him, I want to know as much about the place as possible. I've had a full hypno, but a hypno's only as good as the facts in it, and the facts that reach Earth may be exaggerated, modified, distorted or even out of date.

      Yes, Mr. Carboy, he said eagerly. I wondered if, when he was through with the cigarette, he would keep the butt as a souvenir. He might even frame it, I

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