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Death was no rare occurrence where Yechida lived but it befell only vulgar, exhausted spirits. Exactly what happened to the dead, Yechida did not know. She was convinced that when a soul descended to Earth it was to extinction, even though the pious maintained that a spark of life remained. A dead soul immediately began to rot and was soon covered with a slimy stuff calledsemen. Then a grave digger put it into a womb where it turned into some sort of fungus and was henceforth known as a “child.” Later on, began the tortures of Gehenna: birth, growth, toil. For according to the morality books, death was not the final stage. Purified, the soul returned to its source. But what evidence was there for such beliefs? So far as Yechida knew, no one had ever returned from Earth. The enlightened Yechida believed that the soul rots for a short time and then disintegrates into a darkness of no return. But in our longing for victory, we must not lose sight of the primary purpose of these games. In the long run it is not whether we win or lose but that the games were played. For, my fellow citizens, we must never forget that these games are played in order that the frightening spectre of war may never again stalk our land. It is better that a few should decide the nations fate, than all the resources of our two nations should be mobilized to destroy the other. Think of them—Pompeiian matrons, Aztec virgins, bits of old Prometheus himself, theyre raining down on the just and the unjust. A guard tapped J. G. politely on the shoulder and escorted him through another room, where a small, surly man shouted,Hey, held up a camera and flashed a bright light at them. Then they went into an elevator. From the elevator they went down a long corridor, up a flight of iron steps and into a small antiseptic-smelling cell. “Ill let you know as soon as Mr. Onnatazio sends someone,” the Guard said. “It usually don’t take more’n a hour.” At daybreak there was a wild flurry of rifle and machine gun fire, and then, suddenly, there was no sound, no movement, nothing but silence. Perhaps now he could die.* * * * Hes dead, of course. He got the xeeb. Eight, Scarfe said firmly. Two went today. One got eaten by the allosaur, the other disintegrated. You should keep in touch, Tropez. You spend too much time in the box office.” It should be clearly understood, then, that what follows does not represent any comprehensive culling of work published in or out of any special category during any particular calendar period. It is simply that there were things I read or saw which I meant to mention in the course of the book, and never did. "Come, come," said the intercom, but softly. She was ever kindly."Nayez peur, mon vieux ... mon fils ... ma soeur ... ?" There was even a giggle. After all, there were certain perplexities on her side— what, after all, was mygender? And I could not help her. If we in Ellipsia have gender, or once had— there is a myth to the effect that we once had, and that it still may be recovered — it lies deep to-down the inconscious. I know that there is hope — that just as the crustaceans regenerate limbs lost to the sharks of time, so we — But I could not help her then. I did not know. So she was right. So Mack was very helpful. He was better around the house than a lot of women Ive known, and, though it took right up until my wife got home with the children, the job was perfect. Even my wife was impressed. So since it was getting on toward the evening, she insisted on Mack staying for supper with us, and he went and got some beer, and over it he told my wife the spot that he’d been put in, and then, at around nine or half past, he said he wanted an early night because of work tomorrow, and went home. Arthur Porges and Donald Hall, juxtaposed here, come from opposite ends of the academic range. Porges is a retired college teacher of mathematics; in literature, an admirer of Kipling, London, Mundy, Edgar Wallace, T. H. Huxley. Hall is a member of the faculty of the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, and a former editor of the Paris Review. Thats right, he lost the last parent he remembered when he was six. At seven he was convicted of his first felony— after escaping from Creton VII. But part of his treatment at hospitalcum reform schoolcum prison was to have the details lifted from his memory. "Did something to my head back there. Thats why I never could learn to read, I think." For the next couple of years he ran away from one foster group after the other. When he was eleven, some guy took him home from Play Planet where he'd been existing under the boardwalk on discarded hot dogs, souvlaki, and felafel. "Fat, smoked perfumed cigarettes; name was Vivian?" Turned out to be the publisher. Ratlit stayed for three months during which time he dictated a novel to Vivian. "Protecting my honour," Rablit explained. "I had to dosomething to keep him busy." I didnt know what to do or where to turn. Everyone was looking at me and laughing and I felt naked. I wanted to hide myself. I ran out into the street and I threw up. Then I walked home. It’s a funny thing I never knew that Joe and Frank and the others liked to have me around all the time to make fun of me. A white-slacked young man sitting on one of the long slab sofas—Paul Merrill, Altos arranger—waved him back. She rocked back and forth. When she staggered into a wall, it shook; dust spread in the old room. The Mentors fury was terrible to feel. The lights were the same and the hard, bright whiteness and the soft, constant humming which was more vibration than actual sound. The beat of a heart, Carl had suggested, and he should have known. The beat of her heart—the pumps within her body circulating the coolant through the massed bulk of her memory banks. "In life boats they eat each other rather than all starve. It makes sense, honey." "No," Jay said. "And we have hours before dawn sheds its rosy glow on all concerned.".
