|  | Again.  I’m at the Clinic with loose oranges in a burlap bag, my body tested 
    for levels of abnormal energy force.  Last time my reading was 25.3, which 
    was very bad, but now it’s 38.6 and that is serious.  Maybe life 
    threatening.  Because there’s no medical treatment for this, they decide to 
    send me to an anthropologist who will monitor my lifestyle for 
    discrepancies.  The taller doctor at the Clinic suggests that I might have 
    been adversely affected when I turned on my toaster oven and the coils were 
    frozen.  I have no toaster oven, I tell them.  Too many kitchen appliances 
    mean seduction by corporate capitalism, and I’m a Marxist.  I hand the 
    shorter one an orange (Valencia) which he looks at quickly and puts in the 
    pocket of his lab coat.  He seems disappointed there’s no navel.  
    Transistors in the oranges don’t count as kitchenalia, I decide.  After all, 
    what’s a little more surveillance.
         
    
    
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