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Experiments with drugs are becoming commonplace…

Robert Arctor is heavily addicted to a drug called C—the “brain-burner,” a rather dangerous thing that has become too widely demanded. The management understands this and takes measures. A certain agent, Fred, is watching Bob.

Or is it his paranoia, caused by using the drug? Unexplainable things happen more and more often around him; reality is erased and replaced by drug-induced visions...

Or maybe the drug is causing reality—not visions?

Bob sinks deeper and deeper into madness, trying to find out who he really is...