Knowledge ripe income
Can we humans-who-define-humanness-in-emotional-terms—despite what we theoretically say!—meet an equally wise race with different emotions—and know them for fellow humans? Al, he said, ‘there’s been a death out at the house. A stranger I found out in the woods. He doesn’t seem to have anyone and I aim to take care of it.’ After a while he felt much better. Indeed, he realized that he was extremely hungry; there was no point in dying on an empty stomach, and he began to rummage among the space rations in the closet-sized galley. While he was squeezing a tube of chicken-and-ham paste into his mouth, Launch Control called. "You still have a chance," I shrugged. "Most of the time it doesnt come out till puberty." MCwyie! M’Cwyie! When I want to question you most, you are not around! "You mean theres a living in nonsense? I said nonsense. Dead, fetid nonsense." But he was satisfied. His mission had been a complete success. He had found out the facts—-he knew the truth, and as soon as he returned home everyone would know the truth. The suffering natives would be given—finally—the aid denied them for so long. Go along now, Sonny, she had directed him, and dont you fret none about me. The corn’s most ready. You got a good supply of firewood in, more’n enought to last me all winter. If your guvermint needs us Cromwells to fight, then I reckon its our bounden duty. Your grandsire and greatgrandsire both wuz soldiers and if’n your Pa hadn’t gone and gotten his leg busted and twisted afore the guvermint called him I reckon he’d have been one, too. I’ve learned you all I can and you can read ‘n write ‘n do sums. Just mind your manners and come on home when they don’t need you no more.” This aint no dog or cat.’ Nobody. Its a long story. That’s why I asked you to come—I want to tell you. Dashing up the ninth escalator, the bag of groceries broke open at the bottom, where the thawing pheasant had dampened the paper. Groceries and books tumbled onto the steps, some rolling of their own accord to the landing below, others being transported there by the moving stairs and forming a neat little pile. Only the jam jar had been broken. Well, said Candron. Well. Thats really fine. I hope he has something. Is Mr. Taggert in?” Because theyre getting smart, Muller told him. If we don’t do something, they’ll all get smart—smarter than we are. And they’re vicious—you’ve seen what the wild ones are like. Well, we can’t let it happen. That’s why we’ve had this station here all these years—to watch em, because someone way back then figured this might happen. So we can stop ‘em if it does. But there’s just enough softheads around here thatwant it to happen. We don’t want them finding out—or anybody else.” Ill offer my support in other ways, if you don’t mind. You have no objections to my copying them, do you? If you ever reed this Miss Kinnian dont be sorry for me Im glad I got a second chanse to be smart becaus I lerned a lot of things that I never even new were in this world and Im grateful that I saw it all for a littel bit. I dont know why Im dumb agen or what I did wrong maybe its becaus I dint try hard enuff. But if I try and practis very hard maybe Ill get a littl smarter and know what all the words are. I remember a littel bit how nice I had a feeling with the blue book that has the torn cover when I red it. Thats why fin gonna keep trying to get smart so I can have that feeling agen. Its a good feeling to know things and be smart. I wish I had it rite now if I did I would sit down and reed allthe time. Anyway I bet fin the first dumb person in the world who ever found out something importent for sience. I remember I did somthing but I dont remember what. So I gess its like I did it for all the dumb pepul like me. Alone—Well! James Kenebuck laughed again, but a little cautiously. Im a civilized man, not a hick frontiersman. But I don’t have to be a fool. Yes, I’ve got men covering you from behind the walls of the room here. I’d be stupid not to. And I’ve got this . . .” He whistled, and something about the size of a small dog, but made of smooth, black metal, slipped out from behind a sofa nearby and slid on an aircushion over the carpeting to their feet..
