" It takes no time, effectively," said Farnsworth. "As much time as ittakes to turn to the next page, to the next chapter of a book. It's astory, afte... all. Althenius probably remembers experiencing a longtedious trip in the Kur spaceship but it's just a paragraph or two beforethe next important scene as far as the Xanadu effect is concerned. In ourreality no time at all has passed, we believe. As for Bob, he was changedby Xanadu, he is different, the story is written around him too. Oncehe's. "~~~"This is where I live now. This is my place." She was standing in the kitchen galley, her eyes glistening ever so beautifully."Can you stay the night, Russ?" Yes." I want to show you my teddy bear. He's in my bedroom." Come, Russ, come with me and I will show you my bear." She'd moved and was standing by the couch, interrupting my view of her CPU, the screen emblazoned in the familiar XHAMSTER logo--upper left. The dozen virtual roses, plus one I'd sent her that morning present and. She knows the guy. He is coming to meet her family. Really, she is a catch: bright, pretty, friendly, well-educated." Well-endowed, which she probably shouldn't mention just now."Quarrelsome, with a flash-point temper, will argue for arguments sake." Didn't stop me."Bob had the grace to laugh. Vi might well be the most argumentative person in the city of Chicago; she wasn't the most argumentative person in her immediate family."Anyway," she continued. "She's a Brennan. She's decided, and hasn't. From her ass crack, there spread a gentle meadow of soft, black hairs, that lightly covered the inner sides of her ass cheeks. She also had a little meadow of soft, black hairs, around her belly button, which her partner would gently kiss, as he would often wrap his arms around her legs, pressing his face and lips to her belly. Hula's balls dangled in their enormity, between her petite ass cheeks, and they jiggled in their liquid rolls of wrinkled skin, as she stood back, parting her partner's.