Here is an absorbing speculation on the borderline between fact and fiction. It isnt quottruequot because the evidence remains insufficient on the other hand we cannot be sure that it isquotfalsequot either as yet... W HAT DO people want when they read science-fiction I write this as science-fiction but whatif it is the truth We might not want to hear about the truth. Ill tell you a story then. Butfirst a question. Have you ever had a prediction dream Ive had one. It was nothing just afilthy bit of gossip about a Hollywood star. Even in the dream I was sorry for that star thathe was exposed to such talk. And the next day I was told the gossip by a masseuse in a bus. Im a rational person perhaps ex-ceptionally rational. I know my own mind and its interestsand escapes and when I woke up from that dream I knew it was nothing of mine. Just to be sureI checked sitting there on the edge of my bed for a brief interval of concentrated self-scepticism but I could find no history of delving into movie magazines no hidden lewd in-terest in the love-lives of movie stars only a genuine concern to leave the poor bedeviledcreatures alone to a bit of privacy at least from this par-ticle of their audience. I made anote that this was something unexplained to be investigated again. And the next day as I have said I fell into a conversation with this hearty well-paintedwoman on a long bus ride to New York and she told me anecdotes about having recently worked asa masseuse in Hollywood. I changed the subject uneasily intro-ducing the fact that I was awriter to create a diversion. The response was the usual one. Everyone