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But you do print short personal notes? At once the entire scene seemed familiar. Of course. Years before the creature had visited that very beach and enjoyed a supper of Dominican Fathers. Bingle, bong. There was a bell. The creatures primitive head remembered the bell which it had nibbled for dessert. Brassy and tart. It jiggled for a year afterwards. The creature grinned, or tried to grin. One grey-green mass separated from another and exposed a slit of flecked orange mush. For the creature, that was a big, broad smile. The Camiroi schedule is challenging to the children, but it is nowhere impossible or discouraging. Everything builds to what follows. For instance, the child is eleven years old before he is given post-nuclear physics and universals. Such subjects might be too difficult for him at an earlier age. He is thirteen years old before he undertakes category invention, that intricate course with the simple name. He is fourteen years old when he enters the dangerous field of panphilosophical clarification. But he will have been constructing comprehensive philosophies for two years, and he will have the background for the final clarification. "Yeah," he repeated. Foster glared at him.If youre looking for trouble, mister, you’ll find more than you can handle with me. Sabina shook her head.Why men insist on writing such overheatedbillets-doux is beyond me. I was too weak to rise and so she brought it and we shared the tube and talked about all the banquets we had ever known, and when we got tired of that we talked about Tommy, and when that failed, Ramona went to the switch and we heard "When a Widow," and that helped for a while, and then we decided that tomorrow we would put off "When a Widow" until bedtime because then we would have something to look forward to all day. Then lunch came and we both wept. "I dont mind," I said. "Want to hop in now? We can talk in bed." "Yeah. Thats the word." He grinned. "The kid-boys got one. He's right outside, waiting for you." Meantime, reviews and critical writings by the author have been appearing inThe Guardian andAmbit, as well as inNew Worlds. Perhaps the best clue to Ballard the writer is to be found in Ballard the critic, who asked impatiently about one book: "Didnt have no bugs on our beach. But you said you were off the main trading routes." Suddenly I could feel Jeromes little body grow taut under my hands, and he looked around at me with bottomless eyes. No. I need to speak to Amity alone. He snaps two switches. Out goes the film and on goes the sun, making my eyes stream with sensitive and grateful tears, although hes so adjusted to these contrasts he doesnt so much as blink. Floating in the sunshine I've become opaque. He can't see anything but my surface tensions, and I wonder what he does in his spare time. A part of me seems to tilt, or slide. It was not intentional, I tell myself as I lower my griminess and weariness into the hot water. It was necessary. How else explain why we chose… ?” But it isnt worth a damn. I might as well mumble Tantric formulae. The water feels lukewarm—used. Mose figured theyd have themselves a time getting the bar back in place again, but it slipped on as slick as could be. Meantime, poetry is catching up with science fiction (and/or vice-versa). In Britain, poetry-and-s-f has virtually a Movement of its own. Here in the states, the situation—as with fiction—is less focused, but the same trend is evident. It started in the little magazines, two or three years ago. Now you find Dick Allen inAntioch Review, Sonya Dorman in theSaturday Review, Gerald Jonas inF&SF, R. P. Lister in theAtlantic, Tuli Kupferberg inEast Side Review—and how many others, I cannot begin to guess; I mention only those I have happened to notice—plus, of course, the original poetry-and-s-f man, John Ciardi. (Fifteen years ago, when Ciardi and I were both visiting members of the late Fletcher Pratts Chas. Addams household on the New Jersey shore, Ciardi was editing a series of science-fantasy books for Twayne, and it was from him that I had my first fictionassignment: a chance to write a story without regard to the magazine-market restrictions or demands.)* * * * I am not afraid. I— The doctor looked at Cherpas, answering Gausgofer,How? You were there. I wasnt. How could she have done it? Why should she do it? You were there. She described it, down to the point where a line of waiters carry flaming Baked Alaska into the dining room while she squeezes her husbands leg under the table..
