Jim notices that a pair of the booths is different from the others, so, still carrying the Lisa head and skin, he walks over to them. One has a tall metal rod with a head-sized globe on top and a horizontal crossbar about as wide as an average pair of human shoulders -- it's like a rack for a coat and hat, or for a human-skin and head-mask like the one he's carrying. The other simply has a silvery disc on the floor...Jim thinks of the Transporters on Star Trek (tm). There's a big red button on the short section of wall between the two booths, and a sign saying "IMPLANTER" and "Instructions For Use," followed by a description of what the thing does and how to use it. It seems that if Jim were to put a skin and head on the rack in one booth, press the red button and promptly step into the other booth, the physical body pattern contained in the skin would be implanted underneath his real skin, which would become a human-skin while the pattern would become his real flesh. So, if he put the Lisa suit on the rack, pressed the button, and promptly got into the other booth and stood on the circle, this machine would make him into Lisa wearing a Jim suit, which he could take off revealing what would now be his, or rather her, real Lisa body. Repeating the process would result in layer after layer of human-suit covering what would be the user's real flesh, the flesh determined by the last suit "implanted." Jim's fascinated and:
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