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Kit Reeds 1967 novel The Better Part(Farrar) was an intense, subjective plunge into the life of the teenage daughter of the supervisor of an institution for troubled girls. As it happens, Iwas the teenage daughter of an institutional supervisor (in what used to be called an orphanage). I knewhow right the novel was. "If John did it right, it couldntnot work. I copied the examples right out of something in the library. Somebodys college thesis." by Mark Clifton Yeah, summer, Muller repeated. We get about a whole year of it—one out of four. Were closer to the sun, then. Sometimes the temperature gets up as high as fifteen, here in the tropics—sometimes for weeks at a stretch.” Casey laughed sourly.No. Thats not it. We profit by those who have gone before. The history of underground organizations is a long one, Professor. Each unit of five pacifists know only those belonging to their own unit, and one coordinator. The coordinators, in turn, know only four other coordinators with whom they work, plus a section leader, who knows only four other section leaders with whomhe works, and so forth right to the top officials of the organization. "Drunk or sober," I said. "Believe me, it doesnt mean that much difference to the way a man acts. I know." I shook my head. "I keep forgetting youve only been here three months." When he could see well enough to make his way to the lake, Benedict went forward, still grinding tears from his eyes with heavy knuckles. Dust—a few hairs—floated on the water, but that was all. Ben was gone. Thoughtfully, Benedict took the microphone from his pocket and dropped it in the lake. He stood, watching the lake until the first light of morning came raggedly through the trees, struggling to reach the water. He was in no hurry because he knew, without being told, that he was finished at the office. He would probably have to sell the new wardrobe, the silver brushes, to meet his debts, but he was not particularly concerned. It seemed appropriate, now, that he should be left with nothing.* * * * You ask,Should I lock my door at night? I answer Yes, to feel more secure, and No, to avoid door-breakage. Compromise by locking your bedroom door. The United States delegate tensely measured with his eyes the distance to the gray slab on the table. The days were like Shelleys leaves: yellow, red, brown, whipped in bright gusts by the west wind. They swirled past me with the rattle of microfilm. Almost all of the books were recorded now. It would take scholars years to get through them, to properly assess their value. Mars was locked in my desk. To judge by the newspaper reports on the early battles in the campaign, he must have depended entirely on force of numbers to overrun the regular armys position, and his losses were enormous. Subsequently, having captured, and undoubtedly doubled, heavier weapons, he began to fight more conservatively, but the prodigious amount of doubling that went on during the first few weeks of fighting had presumably reduced his forces to the brutal automatons that wiped out my comrades, and seem to be advancing steadily along the Eastern Seaboard. I don’t know where they are now, the last paper in my collection being several days old. "Should I know your husband?" "Small blessings and all that," I said, flipping the porta-pix on. Nothing can stop us, he declared—and for the first time the fanaticism that lurked behind that smooth, cynical facade was not altogether under control. History is on our side. Well be using America’s own decadence as a weapon against her, and it’s a weapon for which there’s no defense. The Air Force won’t attempt space piracy by shooting down a satellite nowhere near American territory. The FCC can’t even protest to a country that doesn’t exist in the eyes of the State Department. If you’ve any other suggestions, I’d be most interested to hear them.” When An turned to me with the cup, I put my hands on his shoulders. He jumped, but not enough to spill the coffee. "First and last bit of alcoholic advice for the evening, kid-boy. Even if you are crazy, dont go around telling people who are not golden how theyve trapped you. That's like going to Earth and complimenting a nigger on how well he sings and dances and his great sense of rhythm. He may be able to tap seven with one hand against thirteen with the other while whistling a tone row. It still shows a remarkable naïvete about the way things are." That's one of the other things known throughout the galaxy about the world I come from. When I say primitive, I mean primitive. Id pay you, of course. Your usual fee for such investigations. How I was to find out by myself what this test was for a few paltry minutes perplexed me, until it occurred to me that I need only put my trust inwhat I now had, and perhaps it would already be influential enough to instruct me how to test it. It was time for a little self-exhortation. "I am straight— " I said to myself, "very straight." And I am strong, perhaps notvery, but ... quite? I feel certain that I am about to be— whatever it is that I am about to be..
