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Diosdado drew the coin from his pocket, breathed deeply, and dropped it down the well. Time passed. There was a sound, not of splashing, rather of a big and drawn-out yawn, accompanied by a flatted whistling. He thought he heard the ringing of a cash register from far away. What we seem to need right now is someone with skills of a lion tamer. The lion tamer controls the animals by understanding, timing, anddistraction. ----------,Pink Plastic Gods, SciF, June-July. Why are authors? one of them asked. Littleboy slipped out of his roomy sneakers easily and scampered after her.You can take your clothes off, she told him. “Theres nobody here at all.” The Starman came from Alpha Centauri in a spaceship. He says nobody believes him, thats why he’s here. Adequate, Hitchcock replied. He had a nerve-rattling way of walking—never looking where they went. Constantly, he twisted his head in one direction, then another. Spartan, but adequate.” Very well, the chairman said, his voice brisk. Do you wish a vacation, a rest from further assignment at this time?” Deep in the woods was a hunting lodge where a foreigner was expecting them, dressed in a tweed jacket such as nobody wore in the Protectorate. He offered Hutzvalek Chesterfield cigarettes and Golden Milk chocolate. Frenchy frowned. "Id better stock up here then. Then we can leave London and throw them off the scent." I laughed. "Does that mean we might be able to buy a little glass without mortgaging our home?" The Soviet delegate jerked out a small black automatic. The United States delegate shot from his chair in a flying leap. Around the room, men sprang to their feet. There was an instant of violent activity. "Well, would you call your education progressive?" He wondered if Lotus could have wandered into the water and drowned; but he doubted it, as she was an excellent swimmer. He wondered what to do next. He missed Lotus very much. He also missed his supper. And his breakfast. And lunch. And so they did. Now we are not space-nuts; we are Prophets and Experts. As long as we talk aboutrealities—like rockets, satellites, and the missile gap, that is..
