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                              OUT OF MIND

                         By WILLIAM W. STUART

                  Nirva was a real bore. The food was
                  always great, the climate tediously
                  fine, the view monotonously lovely,
                    the girls relentlessly amiable.
                   But, oddly, everybody went there!

           [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
                Worlds of If Science Fiction, May 1961.
         Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
         the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]


"Vacation trip to Nirva?!?" snapped Secad Screed--Galactic Sector
Administrator J. Gomer Screed, a serious-minded man who rarely lost
his temper. That was a pity; it was a lousy temper. "A mindless
excursion, and completely outside my Sector at that! Woman, are both
you and Garten 