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The I.-Day-Eve Orin-Hal call (p. 1007)

quote

‘Orin. Happy Inter-Day Eve. E Unibus Pluram and so on. Still dodging the disabled?’

Context

Hal's hello, I.-Day Eve: the wheelchair-stalker dread from the 5 Nov call already worn down into a family running gag — casual enough to be a greeting. The joke is that "the disabled" are the A.F.R., actually surveilling Orin, and neither brother knows what he's kidding about.

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