Earth Unaware

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Jerry, in the control booth, was making stretching motions. Ed Wonder looked up at the studio clock. They were running long.

He said to the guest, “To go back a bit. You used a couple of terms there that most of us haven’t been checked out on, I’m sure.” He looked down at the pad upon which he scribbled notes as the program continued. “Palin… palin… something or other.”

“Palingenesis,” Reinhold Miller said with only the slightest trace of condescension.

“That’s right. And metempsychosis. Did I get that one?”

“That is correct. Metempsychosis. The passage of the soul from one body to another. From the Latin, which in turn was from the Greek. In all modesty I would still suppose that I am the world’s outstanding authority on palingenesis and metempsychosis.”

Ed Wonder said, “You defined metempsychosis for us; just what is palingenesis?”

“It means rebirth, regeneration, the doctrine of transmigration of souls.”

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