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That drew a rebuke from Rita.
People have to have hope, Lee. Not everyone can be as strong-
minded as you.
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I nodded, even though I have never understood how so many people
are able to rationalize the myriad contradictions the various religions
of the world present. That mind-set was incomprehensible to me, and
I never considered myself to be particularly strong-minded.
What else? I asked.
There are still several wars going on, but I guess that s nothing
unusual.
So long as I don t have to fight. I wasn t at all sure I could go
through anything like that again.
We re not at war with anyone, if that s what you re worried about,
unless you want to count Mexico. There s been some fighting there,
but the army is trying to keep it quiet.
Haven t they learned yet?
That kind of mentality never learns, Rita said. If there were only a
few gates, they would keep them surrounded, cover them up and
make anyone who ever saw one take an oath of secrecy never to tell on
pain of death.
Speaking of gates, have you learned anything more about them.
Anything at all?
Not a blasted thing. Frustration showed on Russell s face. There
they sit, an open challenge to our best minds, and we don t know any
more about them than we ever did.
He took a sip of his drink, looking thoughtful. One good thing, trying
to figure them out is generating a lot of serious thinking and
speculation into new areas. They are forcing us to think about
possibilities we would have dismissed as impossible a few years ago.
As a matter of fact, I ve come up with a couple of ideas I want to
explore. Rita is interested in them, too.
Rita? I turned and stared at her. What do you know about
physics?
Not much, but one or two of his ideas might have implications for
psychology, or sociology, to be more accurate.
What are they? I asked, looking from one to another. I was
intrigued.
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Too soon to talk, Rita said. Let it be for now. I will say, if even one
of them pans out, it might do something for the Fourth World
problem.
Really? That would be wonderful! Donna s face brightened for the
first time that evening. She grabbed Russell and kissed him.
Despite our questions, Russell wouldn t give us a hint and Rita
clammed up, too. It was as if they were afraid of jinxing the idea. We
let it be, but I realized for the first time that Russell truly was
brilliant.
It s a good thing someone invented Nohang pills, otherwise I m afraid
we would all have fallen into a drunken stupor in the great room
before the evening s celebration really got started. As is, we took
enough to keep a buzz going while enjoying our drinks and letting our
hair down.
When we did finally call it a night, Donna retreated into a bedroom
and pointedly closed the door. We understood. She needed some time
to be alone. Russell would probably have come to bed with Rita and
me, but the NHU web came back online. He took some extra Nohang
and stayed up discussing developments with his colleagues, as happy
as a ten-year-old boy with a new pellet rifle.
I d already found out it was true that combat veterans don t like to
talk about their experiences. That night I discovered another rumor
about war was true: there s nothing like being shot at to kick up the
old biological urge. Rita and I didn t stop our frenzied lovemaking
until near daylight.
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I managed to arrange another interview with Messilinda on
Wednesday of the next week a coup that made Mary happy. I wasn t
that enthused myself, because Messilinda insisted that we talk in
person at a gate near the boundary of North and Old Houston. Mary
told me that Messilinda wouldn t say why, but I figured she probably [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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I nodded, even though I have never understood how so many people
are able to rationalize the myriad contradictions the various religions
of the world present. That mind-set was incomprehensible to me, and
I never considered myself to be particularly strong-minded.
What else? I asked.
There are still several wars going on, but I guess that s nothing
unusual.
So long as I don t have to fight. I wasn t at all sure I could go
through anything like that again.
We re not at war with anyone, if that s what you re worried about,
unless you want to count Mexico. There s been some fighting there,
but the army is trying to keep it quiet.
Haven t they learned yet?
That kind of mentality never learns, Rita said. If there were only a
few gates, they would keep them surrounded, cover them up and
make anyone who ever saw one take an oath of secrecy never to tell on
pain of death.
Speaking of gates, have you learned anything more about them.
Anything at all?
Not a blasted thing. Frustration showed on Russell s face. There
they sit, an open challenge to our best minds, and we don t know any
more about them than we ever did.
He took a sip of his drink, looking thoughtful. One good thing, trying
to figure them out is generating a lot of serious thinking and
speculation into new areas. They are forcing us to think about
possibilities we would have dismissed as impossible a few years ago.
As a matter of fact, I ve come up with a couple of ideas I want to
explore. Rita is interested in them, too.
Rita? I turned and stared at her. What do you know about
physics?
Not much, but one or two of his ideas might have implications for
psychology, or sociology, to be more accurate.
What are they? I asked, looking from one to another. I was
intrigued.
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Too soon to talk, Rita said. Let it be for now. I will say, if even one
of them pans out, it might do something for the Fourth World
problem.
Really? That would be wonderful! Donna s face brightened for the
first time that evening. She grabbed Russell and kissed him.
Despite our questions, Russell wouldn t give us a hint and Rita
clammed up, too. It was as if they were afraid of jinxing the idea. We
let it be, but I realized for the first time that Russell truly was
brilliant.
It s a good thing someone invented Nohang pills, otherwise I m afraid
we would all have fallen into a drunken stupor in the great room
before the evening s celebration really got started. As is, we took
enough to keep a buzz going while enjoying our drinks and letting our
hair down.
When we did finally call it a night, Donna retreated into a bedroom
and pointedly closed the door. We understood. She needed some time
to be alone. Russell would probably have come to bed with Rita and
me, but the NHU web came back online. He took some extra Nohang
and stayed up discussing developments with his colleagues, as happy
as a ten-year-old boy with a new pellet rifle.
I d already found out it was true that combat veterans don t like to
talk about their experiences. That night I discovered another rumor
about war was true: there s nothing like being shot at to kick up the
old biological urge. Rita and I didn t stop our frenzied lovemaking
until near daylight.
Chapter Fifteen
I managed to arrange another interview with Messilinda on
Wednesday of the next week a coup that made Mary happy. I wasn t
that enthused myself, because Messilinda insisted that we talk in
person at a gate near the boundary of North and Old Houston. Mary
told me that Messilinda wouldn t say why, but I figured she probably [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]