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Then, before Stadler could protest further, Ferris handed him a prepared speech to deliver. This speech began with this absurd claim:{{cquote|I am proud that my years of work in the service of science have brought me the honor of placing into the hands of our great leader, Mr. Thompson, a new instrument with an incalculable potential for a civilizing and liberating influence upon the mind of man.}}
Then, before Stadler could protest further, Ferris handed him a prepared speech to deliver. This speech began with this absurd claim:{{cquote|I am proud that my years of work in the service of science have brought me the honor of placing into the hands of our great leader, Mr. Thompson, a new instrument with an incalculable potential for a civilizing and liberating influence upon the mind of man.}}
Floyd Ferris told Stadler, on that occasion, that the government planned to build more Thompson Harmonizers within Megalopolis USA and within 100 miles of every large city, to keep the people in line. But the economy literally could not support the building of ''any'' other Xylophone. So the one Xylophone in Dunkertown, Iowa, now known as Harmony City, would remain the only one. And in less than a year and a month, a struggle for control would destroy it and the entire region under its influence.
== The triggering ==
== The triggering ==