A short story celebrating the power of the human imagination in a dystopian future setting. Uldar, a political prisoner, receives a visit from a psychologist, which does not go at all according to the official plan.A short story celebrating the power of the human imagination in a dystopian future setting. Uldar, a political prisoner, receives a visit from a psychologist intent on convincing him that his "heterodoxy" (which takes the form of an interest in ancient languages) is dangerous to society. But the psychologist gets considerably more than he bargained for when Uldar starts to show him the collection of imaginary eggs which, paradoxically, helps to keep him sane.