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Oh, Anna, Anna! The soft, light voice broke. You feel that way and you belong Here. You wont ever—” (Hopelessly, he kills the fly. Exhausted, he falls asleep beside the corpse).* * * *The Terminal Beach I tried to talk her into going alone, but she didnt like the idea. I’d noticed that she’d given up watching pre-Contact programs on TV, so that was of a piece. I see what you mean. I think we could work something out that would satisfy the Patent Office. It would take a lot of work, though. I— He walked down the side street to where the sound truck was parked, climbed into the cab and sat still for a few minutes, looking out at the bright evening lights in the bars and shop-fronts. Eleven oclock? Can you be here then? On the main floor, to the right, as you enter. April, 1965 Look… Ill play robot; you tell me what you mean by human being. What is this entity-type that I’m required to leave immune, and defend? How am I, Robot, to distinguish between the following entities: 1. A human idiot. 2. Another robot. 3. A baby. 4. A chimpanzee. Computer-sent, must be, said Hs transceiver into his right ear. No sigil preceded this statement, but H knew the tones of B, his next-up, who in any case could be seen a meter away saying it, in the large concrete bubble whence they watched, using a plaspex window and an infrared northviewer with a range of some hundreds of meters forward. His next-up had been in the bunker for three minutes, apparently overchecking, probably for an appreciation to two-up who might be in station VV now. Mangon shook his head sympathetically. He pulled a pencil from his breast pocket and on the wrist-pad stitched to his left sleeve wrote:Mr. LeGrande? But they laughed, those three, and, hearing it, watching the mother tickling the younger one, watching its delighted squirming, Ed knew that in that marvelous little grouping below, perfectly lighted, perfectly staged, he was privileged to observe one of the earths most guarded secrets. … hat-check girl at Tropicabana. Usual dossier … My hand came down on top of the metal cage, hard. I caught my breath at the pain. "On our beach," I said, turning my palm up to look. There were red marks across it. "There werent any bugs on our beach." Then I started shaking. "Still not quite right," said Patrick. Presumably, one can extend the principle to all manner of scientific and nonscientific investigations. Gigantic mega-batteries can even be built—in theory—to predict the result of an election to be held the following year—but I have labored the point long enough. Let me, instead, make a few remarks concerning the great dangers as well as the great benefits, which are involved in thiotimoline research.* * * * john has left! ! ! He went last night without notice. they are short of staff now, and there arent so many to watch us. The Starman says that when he goes, I can come with him. There’s room for two aboard the ship — so it’s Alpha Centauri or bust! I felt the nape of my neck prickle. If he was telling the truth—well, he was a kind of living ghost! Everyone I knew had at least one Contact; I had three. My wife and I had a mutual, of course, like all married couples, and as insurance against our being killed together in a car wreck or by some similar accident I had an extra one with my kid brother Joe and a third with a guy Id known in college. At least, I was fairly sure I did; I hadn’t heard from him in some months and he might perhaps have expunged me. I made a mental note to look him up and keep the friendship moving..
