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In the middle of the city, the Chinese government had built its equivalent of the Kremlin—nearly a third of a square mile of ultra-modern buildings designed to house every function of the Communist Government of China. It had taken slave labor to do the job, but the job had been done. A freight elevator shot him to the roof of the next building. From here, given luck, he could cross to a still further building and make his getaway. Im not sure. Dressed all in black, a cap pulled down low... it could have been a woman. My God, yes, it could. After the explorers comes the colony of miners and scientists. The Warden and some of the other elders put on faces to greet them, agreeing to help with the mining of some ores, even giving them a koota or two as they become interested in our racing dogs. They set up their places of life, pop up their machines, bang-bang, chug-chug; we put on our faces, forms smiles and costumes; I am old enough to learn to change my shape, too. Shivering with cold, Traven returned to the bunker and laid on the bed of old magazines, waiting for their return. The image of their faces, the pale lantern of his wifes cheeks, floated on that river of memory, lost among the dark archipelagoes of his dreams.* * * *The Blocks (II) She pointed to the cabin on the far side of the stockade.Mangon, whos is that? Few things surprised Quincannon after all his years as a detective, but the sight that confronted him here was unexpected enough to have that effect. The light came from a lantern fixed to one of the bulkheads, its wick turned down low. In its pallid glow, the two dead men sprawled on the deckboards were like wax figures in a grisly museum display. There was a wet sound now. A waterfall it sounded like. And soft organ music began to fill the room. Then, a modest figure came forward, asserting that she had seen the cancer cry. It was a school teacher, from a school in the suburbs. In the school there was a small telescope, and with this apparatus she had seen the cancer weeping.Its true, confirmed a bell ringer. “I too have seen him cry.” The gravedigger became angry, but the doctors admitted it was possible. “All living organisms can weep.” Rationalising our dismay over her condition, we had circulated the usual statements to the effect that we would haveliked having children— but later on, at the proper time. Selinas pregnancy had cost us her well-paid job and with it the new house we had been negotiating and which was far beyond the reach of my income from poetry. But the real source of our annoyance was that we were face to face with the realisation that people who say they want children later always mean they want children never. Our nevers were thrumming with the knowledge that we, who had thought ourselves so unique, had fallen into the same biological trap as every mindless rutting creature which ever existed. (ward 7 is fine) "No, Con, I dont know that. And neither do you. Within experimental errors, he may well have got one hundred per cent. And even if he didnt, he really might have got fairly close to it. A pilot plant always does much better than a bench scale unit. I finished the cocoa drowsily. It was still early, but the rain was drumming on the roof and it was the kind of night you curl up to if youre warm and fed. Sometimes you feel thin and cold on such nights, but I was feeling curl-uppy. So I groped under the bed for the paper bag that had my jammas in it. I couldn’t find it. But suddenly the idea of a shower, and food, came through to me. "Please, Vyme." Thinking about Ma, Jed got homesick. He closed his eyes and looked around for Ma. She was stirring a pot of lye ashes over the fireplace and when she felt Jed in the cabin she closed her eyes.Sonny, she said, “you in trouble?” Yes, sir, I said, very nice,” though sneakingly I sympathized with the boy out there. I knew the voice of all the temporal powers was speaking through the sexiatrist, and all the pressures were being brought to bear, but I admired him for resisting. Lower your voice, said the razor. Do you want your wife to hear you?”.
