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That was beside the point, said Ian, quietly. He was one of my officers.” I turned from the table. They seem to hate you, he observed. Dont you feed them?” colour float water Milk and cake? ... A letter is an evidence. It can be folded and carried in a pocket and reopened at night and read again. And, during the day, touched. It is the next thing to being almost real. It is a thing and, therefore, partly believable. . . . Sister Mary asked me to respect her privacy. You wanted, said Ian, almost conversationally, to have him kill himself off. But he never quite did. And each time he came back for more, because he had it stuck into his mind, carved into his mind, that he wanted to impress you—even though by the time he was grown, he saw what you were up to. He knew, but he still wanted to make you admit that he wasnt a loser. You’d twisted him that way while he was growing up, and that was the way he grew.” A breakdown of function and structure, said Colles. An absolute lack of communication. Isnt it so?” Mr. Taylor, a trim, blond young man, who looked like an ad for expensive shirts, listened carefully, said nothing. Melchior looked impressed—and uncomprehending. Colles took his arm just above the elbow, pressed it. “Look at that fellow over there,” he said. “The one in the brown suit—see? Now: can I communicate with him? Or can you? On any save the most primitive level? No. Impossible, I assure you. I’ve only to look at him to know.” The crowd flowed across the street. The men in the car watched the vanishing brown suit. When Pauline Dupree rose after finishing her breakfast, he raised the newspaper above eye level and peeked around its edges as she reentered the lobby. This time, looking neither left nor right, she went straight to the elevator bank. Once she was inside one of the cars with the door closed, he stood quickly and drifted over there. The indicator arm above the door told him her room was on the top floor. You wont take offense if I say I’m surprised to find a nun in surroundings such as these. Ex-rocketman Stine is now working for a research and development company in New York City, where he is closely associated with Col. William O. Davis, former chief of the USAF Office of Scientific Research. (Stines Time for Tom Swift, in Analog, January, 1961, some of Davis’s ideas on space flight, based on the notion that any practical system of transport must be “suitable for an aged grandmother visiting her grandchildren. . . .”) The article that follows is excerpted from a longer essay, “Science Fiction Is Too Conservative.”* * * * You wanted, said Ian, almost conversationally, to have him kill himself off. But he never quite did. And each time he came back for more, because he had it stuck into his mind, carved into his mind, that he wanted to impress you—even though by the time he was grown, he saw what you were up to. He knew, but he still wanted to make you admit that he wasnt a loser. You’d twisted him that way while he was growing up, and that was the way he grew.” Thats the last I ever saw of her; isnt that strange? Those rejecting lips and then the shoes departing in uneven clocks, for though she was hardly half as old as Number One (but I must admit Number One keeps up her strength extraordinarily well, rinses it in, I suppose, with the henna of her hair, or sucks it from me with that avid, other mouth. I do age fast)— for though she was hardly half — as I said — Mother, who refused ever after that to come into my room, died a year later. One could say that she faced her moment of truth with a starfish. "I will," she said calmly. "Prepare yourself for surprises." She seemed very matter of fact, but her face had the calm of a woman whos just had a baby, the pain and shock were over, but she knew this was really only the beginning of the trouble. No. Too dark. Just the shape of him when he appeared from behind one of the trees. Thats when I screamed and he fired at me..
