Flying saucers were in ... but little green men were out. More importantly, I got the impression the moderator wanted to steer the discussion in a phi...osophical direction. How does man deal with the unknown? What are the ramifications of time travel? That one got my attention. Are we alone in the universe? Is there a parallel universe? The more he led the discussion, the more interested I became.The group was scheduled to meet once a week on Tuesdays at the Quonset hut near the physics. " I'm getting rather upset by this. All I want is to lure you in here on an obvious pretext so I can hit you with a candlestick." You haven't got a candlestick," said the genius outside."It's a metaphorical stick. Any kind of blunt instrument will do." Do they hurt? You can't beat a good clubbing in my book." Oh shut up!"Unfortunately I seem to have found a guard too stupid to fall for any of the usual routines. It really does look like I'm stuck in here. I sit down and wait.Chapter 6Some time. Dear god, McClendon thought, it looks like all the sunflowers in the whole state migrated here.They were ugly sunflowers too, great hairy stalks almost four feet tall, nodding back and forth in the rainy wind. Welcome, they seemed to say, welcome and abandon hope, all ye enter here. There was a pile of moldy looking shingles that had fallen off the roof stacked up near the garage, which too looked like it was about to fall over. The upper windows bulged out of their frames like beetling. During the holidays, I used to go to my friend’s place daily in the evening. One such day, I saw a girl coming out of the neighboring house and playing with children on the road. Instantly, I fell for her! She was Mithuna (name changed) 5″8 height, with a nice figure of 32-28-30 with pink lips and long hair. I inquired my friend about her. He said that she was also from our batch and we can talk to her. I was introduced to her by my friend. I was staring at her daily from then onward and she.