Transcriber's Note:
This etext was produced from Analog Science Fact & Fiction September 1963. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.
AM I STILL THERE?
Which must in essence, of course,
simply be the question "What do I
mean by 'I'?"
by JAMES R. HALL
ILLUSTRATED BY LEO SUMMERS
Lee slid off the examining table and began buttoning his shirt. He had had a medical examination every six months of his adult life, and it always seemed strange to him that, despite the banks of machines the doctor had which could practically map a man from a single cell outward, each examination always entailed the cold end of a stethoscope against his chest.
He tucked his shirt into his pants and turned to the examining doctor who was writing on a chart.