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. And not as good meat.
A dinosaur more than a year old is tough and tasteless. I did try them, years
back, when some thought was being given to using dinosaur meat to quench a
famine on time line seven. But the logistics were dreadful and, when you come
right down to it, there is little justice in killing stupid lizards to feed
stupid people; they had earned their famine. But hunting dinosaurs with cameras,
that's real fun. It even gets sporting if you go after the big carnivores and
happen to flush a bull who is feeling edgy and sexy-it improves your running. Or
else. Dickie, there is a spot down about Wichita where I can promise you
triceratops, several sorts of pterodactyls, duckbills, thunder lizards, and
maybe a male stegosaurus all in one day. Once this caper is over we'll take a
day off and do it. What do you say?"
"Is it that easy?"
"With the installed equipment the Mesozoic is no farther away than is THQ
or Boondock. Time and space are illusions; the Burroughs irrelevancy gear will
plunk you down in the middle of a herd of feeding and fornicating flapdoodles
before you can say sixty-five million years."
'The way you phrased that invitation seemed to imply that you assume that I
have closed on Task Adam Selene."
"Dickie, the equipment does indeed belong to the Time Corps... and it is
expensive, how expensive we don't discuss. It was built to support Plan Long
View; its recreational use is incidental
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