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The fundamentalist vigor of his reply brooked no debate. It was worse than any beating. I kept my mouth shut after that and learned to appreciate Old Testament poetry. I pick him up and breathe the door out, and go back through the night to his quarters, where the lamp still burns. Im going to leave him here, where he belongs. Before I go, I pick up the small carving of the murger bird, and take it with me, home to my glass bridge where at the edge of the mirrors the decimals are still clicking perfectly, clicking out known facts; an octagon can be reduced, the planet turns at such a degree on its axis, to see the truth you must have light of some sort, but to see the light you must have darkness of some sort. I can no longer float on the horizon between the two because that horizon has disappeared. Ive learned to descend, and to rise, and descend again. He nodded. Translated by Michael Hamburger Oh, no, they said then. No photographs.” He ignored the question.The maid told me you came calling again on Wednesday. The gods chided me that night. I hardly recognized them. They were fatter, more confident, ready for deliverance. I warned them about premature optimism, but they laughed anyhow. Duty? Duty to whom—Brian? Kenebuck looked as if he would laugh again, then thought better of it. There was the white, wild flash of his eyes again. What was something like Brian to you? You said you didnt even like him.” The United States delegate scowled.Well, we can still stick pins in maps and draw pictures. Eventually we can get across what we mean. There was a brief flash of the White House lawn, a fade-out, and then: At five oclock Vandervell had not come back. A second crater had opened in the summit of the volcano, into which part of the village had fallen. When she was sure that the devil-sticks man had gone, the woman took the money from Vandervell’s jacket and drove down the mountain. Ho-ho-ho! Seventeen! Seventeen! Seventeen planets, Benson, and theyll do anything I say! This one’s got a mind of its own. Did you see that little trick with the rocks? Ho-ho! The senator closed his eyes for a long moment. Fitzgerald took off his glasses and wiped them industriously. Lieberman spread a piece of plastic on his desk, and then lifted the thing out of my creel and laid it on the plastic. The two men didnt move, They just sat where they were and looked at it. She found that the latter state was preceded by a slow transformation of the outward sense—in somewhat the same manner as the sky, with its drifting clouds and dying splendor of sunset, seems to become the sea with islands shaping and reshaping, and colors paling or deepening as they merge. Gradually the scene she looked upon became something fascinatingly terrifying, because its beauty was like nothing she had ever seen before. Then came complete submergence of mind until brought back to earth by some disturbance, probably a manifestation of physical discomfort. And there was left memory only of ecstasy and a craving to recapture it.* * * * Goodbye, London Touched, Alto turned away from him and sat down.Okay, Mangon, he snapped brusquely, “you can get on with your job. Remember, I havent promised anything.” He flicked on the dictaphone, then began: “Memo 11: Ray…”.
