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. My felicitations, ma'am. My congratulations, sir. May your life together be
long and peaceful and filled with love."
Gwen got on her tiptoes and kissed him for that, and they both had tears in
their eyes. Well, so did I.
VIII
"The biscuits and the syrup never come out even."
LAZARUS LONG 1912-
Gwen took us straight to the Spaceman's Widow, tucked in behind Macy's
storerooms just as she had said, in one of those odd little comers formed by the
habitat's cylindrical shape- if you didn't know it was there, you probably would
never find it. It was pleasantly quiet after the crowds we had encountered at
the spaceport end of the axis.
Ordinarily this end was for passenger craft only, with freighters ganging
up at the other end of the axis of spin. But positioning the new addition for
bringing it up to spin had caused all traffic to be routed to the Moonward, or
forward, end- "forward" because Golden Rule is long enough to have a slight
tidal effect, and will have even more when the new addition is welded on. I
don't mean that it has daily tides; it does not. But what it does have-
(I may be telling too much; it depends on how much you have had to do with
habitats. You can skip this with no loss.)
What it does have is a tidal lock on Luna; the forward end points forever
straight down at the Moon. If Golden Rule were the size of a shuttle craft, or
as far away as Ell-Five, this would not happen
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