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You were picked for your job because you were a xenophobe. It helps in your proper functioning. But this Plumie is here under a flag of truce " "Flag of truce!" snarled Taine. "It's vermin! It's not human! I'll " "If you move one inch nearer him," said Baird gently, "just one inch " The skipper's voice bellowed through the general call speakers all over the ship: "Mr. Taine!
His choice had been deliberate, because he was a xenophobe. He had been a problem personality all his life. He had a seemingly congenital fear and hatred of strangers which in mild cases is common enough, but Taine could not be cured without a complete breakdown of personality.
He called Baird and the others Plumie-lovers and vermin-worshipers. He shouted foulnesses at them. But he did not attack. When, still shouting, he went away, Baird said apologetically to the Plumie: "He's a xenophobe. He has a pathological hatred of strangers even of strangeness. We have him on board because " Then he stopped. The Plumie wouldn't understand, of course.
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