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Date: Tue, 19-Feb-85 10:17:30 EST
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From: Hank Shiffman <Shiffman@SWW-WHITE>

    From: ukma!red@topaz (Red Varth)
    Subject: Here's another book that needs identification:
    Date: 12 Feb 85 21:14:00 GMT

    This book starts out about a professor whose wife has left him. He
    gets depressed one night, and tries to commit suicide. He's saved by
    his hat.  His wife is a nurse, I think.

That's "Mindkiller" by Spider Robinson.  The bit about him rescuing the
wireheaded girl was originally a story called "God Is An Iron".  I
believe it was published in Analog and reprinted in Robinson's
collection "Time Travellers Strictly Cash".