Soft erotic
"No, itll be better if you wait outside." Where are the people? asks Chris, and I see that he looks pale. He has asked the question reluctantly, as though preferring no answer. I give none. We come close to one of the spheres, feeling that we do the wrong thing and doing it anyway. I see our objective and I point. It is a family of them, dimly visible like floating plants in an un-cleaned aquarium. It is their frightened eyes we first see. I was practically speechless when I saw who it was. I let him get the first few words in because of that. He said,Please, you must understand! All I wanted was to make sure nothing happened to you! Suppose youd had a crash on the way to the movie, and I didn’t know—where would I be then? I sat there and worried about it till I just couldn’t stand any more, and all I meant to do was make sure you were safe, but when I got down to the movie house I got worried about your coming home safe and— "For you, honey. It was aknock." Someone fired a shot at her in her garden. I dont believe that, I said shortly, and Fitzgerald, the government man, told me quietly, Neither do we. We guess.” Isnt that the essence of intelligence? I asked. To analyze new situations, and master them?” He wanted another tree. The tree nearest to the bank was nearly two feet thick. Clem went for it at hip level. I ran to help him, but he ordered me back. We knew why. He had won prizes felling timber in contests, using a double-headed ax in competition with champions. In less time than it takes me to tell you this, the tree was down. He had dropped it just where he wanted it to lie. Then he and the rest of us were on that fallen tree like madmen, taking off the top branches. No, theres no known effect. Sober or drunk, the process goes through! How was I to know that a highly respected psychoexperimentalist like Nemur was unacquainted with Hindustani and Chinese? Its absurd when you consider the work that is being done in India and China today in the very field of this study. Gausgofer fell hi love with Rogov the moment she saw him. Children of the land, what have we done to you? Today, the holy Shaman watches Ed Sullivan before conducting his rites. Our cancer culture presses in like fingers on a throat. Rice Krispies and insecticide stifle the Star Maker and the Animal Wife. But why? Dr. Olie protested. You cant just come and cart off a private citizen—” First hint I had wed been spotted by a crusoe was a littletick coming to my moonsuit from the miniradar Pete and I were gaily heaving into position near the east end of Gioja crater to scan for wrecks, trash, and nodules of raw metal. Everything youve worked for! he repeated scathingly. The deliberate suppression of a people as deserving of human rights as you or I! In clear conscience, I cannot stand by and permit this to go on! I shall—” Ive solved the problem. I am never going to sleep again. If I don’t sleep then I can’t dream. You agree? Over and over again that night in his room in the Y.M.C.A. he fondled his books and asked himself the question:Why are authors?.
