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    A Filbert Is a Nut
    A Filbert Is a Nut
    A Filbert Is a Nut
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    A Filbert Is a Nut

    By Rick Raphael

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      A Filbert Is a Nut - Rick Raphael

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      Title: A Filbert Is a Nut

      Author: Rick Raphael

      Release Date: November 22, 2007 [EBook #23588]

      Language: English

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      Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Astounding Science Fiction November 1959. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      A FILBERT IS A NUT

      BY RICK RAPHAEL

      That the gentleman in question was a nut was beyond question. He was an institutionalized psychotic. He was nutty enough to think he could make an atom bomb out of modeling clay!

      Illustrated by Freas

      Miss Abercrombie, the manual therapist patted the old man on the shoulder. You're doing just fine, Mr. Lieberman. Show it to me when you have finished.

      The oldster in the stained convalescent suit gave her a quick, shy smile and went back to his aimless smearing in the finger paints.

      Miss Abercrombie smoothed her smock down over trim hips and surveyed the other patients working at the long tables in the hospital's arts and crafts shop. Two muscular and bored attendants in spotless whites, lounged beside the locked door and chatted idly about the Dodgers' prospects for the pennant.

      Through the barred windows of the workshop, rolling green hills

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