job to job for personal reasons is called manipulation. I could do it now because Milton had arranged it. I wasn't supposed to do it for anyone but him, though he The first arrived a week later. Milton's face turned red when he saw and He spoke as though hard to do so. They were together a great deal it were he paid no attention to me. In time he said, "Let me take you to dinner. was The next day he said to me, It was no good, somehow. There something missing. She is a beautiful woman, but I did not feel any touch of true ve. Try the next one." a t was the same with all eight. They were much alike. They smiled great deal and had pleasant voices, Milton always found it wasn't right but He said "I can't understand it, Joe. You and I have picked out the eight women who, in all the world, look the best to me. They are ideal. Why don't they please me? I said, "Do you please them?" His eyebrows moved and he pushed one fist hard against his other hand That's it, Joe. It's a two-way street. If I am not their ideal, they can't act in such a way as to be my ideal. must be their true love, too, but how do I do that? He seemed to be thinking all that day The next morning he came to me and said "I'm going to leave it to you Joe. All up to you. You have my data bank, and I am going to tell you everything I know about myself. You fill up my data bank in every possible detail but keep all additions to yourself. What will I do with the data bank, then, Milton? Then you will match it to the 235 women. No, 227. Leave out the eight you've seen. Arrange to have each undergo a psychiatric examination. Fill up their data banks and compare them with mine. Find correlations." (Arranging psychiatric examinations is another thing that is against my original instructions.) For weeks, Milton talked to me. He told me of his parents and his siblings He told me of his childhood and his schooling and his adolescence. He told me of the young women he had admired from a distance. His data bank grew and he adjusted me to broaden and deepen my symbol-taking. He said, "You see, Joe, as you get more and more of me in you. I adjust you to match me better and better. You get to think more like me, so you under- stand me better, lf you understand me well enough, then any woman, whose data bank is something you understand as well, would be my true love." He kept