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THE MOMENT WAS STRANGE. There was no reality in the bar; there
was no longer solidity; all things merged, one into the other.
Time had stopped.  He sat alone in a booth, listening to the
music which came out of a red plastic box, lighted within. Some
of the music he remembered from having heard it in other places.
But the words he could no longer understand. He could recall
only vague associations as