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Quite so, Wadsworth said mildly. Why dont you just take the rest of the day off and tell her all about it. While you’re at it, you might bring her up to date on your trip. And there’s a wonderful view of the Kremlin from this window. I’m sure she’ll be interested in all this. Just have a nice long chat. Take all day. Take two days if you like. No hurry, you know.” To make murder appear to be suicide. She is being well protected by you and Mrs. Petrie. The girls expression brightened then, the black eyes shining. And Burton-san will soon be home again.” The history of other worlds then is roughly the same as that of our own world: a competition between life forms, some able to win through, some unable to do so through bad placement of organs. The extinct billions of experiments that failed are not around for us to examine. Life, structuring itself for more efficient survival, remains. Unhurriedly, he roved over the rooftops, asking himself,Whom shall I attack? Oh, yes, he must select a victim! The situation was a routine one for his race, but not for him. He breathed voluptuously. Which organism, he asked, would he choose from among so many thousands? Of course, it had to be a human organism, a man or a woman. He could not understand why many of his brothers preferred to adhere to trees, to mushrooms, to fish or to butterflies. And which part would he abide in? The skin and mouth were imprudent. With radio therapy or with a scalpel they could attack him in any surgery. The lungs offered more security and so did the digestive apparatus, whose remote cloisters, yet unknown, constituted a guarantee of impunity. And he must not forget the brain! The Red Egg philosophized in his fashion on the subject. Curious, yes, curious and flattering to be gnawing at the mind, at the faculty to speak and coordinate, to be eating metaphysics, to assassinate the noble potentialities of the being, little by little. He glanced sheepishly at his torn sharkskin slacks.I was shinnying down this tree. I guess somebody left a nail in it. Mr. Barone, I began, what do you want from the University?” Well, said Shapiro, when I had finished my visual inspection and photographed the sorry spectacle on the screen, how long will it take?” It doesnt look like anything you’ve ever seen before, does it? Mike asked proudly. The critics inAlto say I’ve discovered entirely new forms. They say I’m the spearhead of spatialism—I bet in America they don’t even know what that is.” I warn you beforehand, this is not the kind of story I usually publish—not the kind anyoneusually publishes, it would seem. The author says he collected 113 rejection slips, over thirteen years, before it sold—not, as one might have expected, to an adventure magazine, but toThe Colorado Quarterly. Do you mind telling me where you were the night before last? "Oh," I said. "And what was Kyber?" Yeah. She looks okay. A little squeezed up, but okay. Its too early, said Deet, digging his bare toes in the dust of the front yard. Teacher says we get there too early.” The history of other worlds then is roughly the same as that of our own world: a competition between life forms, some able to win through, some unable to do so through bad placement of organs. The extinct billions of experiments that failed are not around for us to examine. Life, structuring itself for more efficient survival, remains. He dreamt it as active, warm, secret, the size of a closed fist, of garnet color in the penumbra of a human body as yet without face or sex; with minute love he dreamt it, for fourteen lucid nights. Each night he perceived it with greater clarity. He did not touch it, but limited himself to witnessing it, observing it, perhaps correcting it with his eyes. He perceived it, lived it, from many distances and many angles. On the fourteenth night he touched the pulmonary artery with his finger, and then the whole heart, inside and out. The examination satisfied him. Deliberately, he did not dream for a night; then he took the heart again, invoked the name of a planet and set about to envision another of the principal organs. Within a year he reached the skeleton, the eyelids. The innumerable hair was perhaps the most difficult task. He dreamt a complete man, a youth, but this youth could not rise nor did he speak nor could he open his eyes. Night after night, the man dreamt him as asleep. I cant go on dodging her forever. Tell me what to do. I drove sedately back to Lauderdale.* * * *.
