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Robert A. Heinlein - A Comedy Of Justice
Atec Февраль 27 2008 02:52:13
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. It got monotonous. He's got me scheduled to take another dive at the end of this Millennium, to fulfill His prophecies. That "War in Heaven" He predicted in the so-called Book of Revelation. I'm not going to go. I've told My angels that they can form a foreign legion if they want to, but I'm sitting this one out. What's the point in a battle if the outcome is predetermined thousands of years before the whistle?'
He was watching me while He talked. He stopped abruptly. 'What's eating on you now?'
'Jerry... if it has been five hundred years since I lost Margrethe, it's hopeless. Isn't it?'
I 'Hey! Damnation, boy, haven't I told you not to try to understand things you can't understand? Would I be working on it if it were hopeless?'
Katie said, 'Jerry, I had Alec all quieted down... and You got him upset again.'
'I'm sorry.'
'You didn't mean to. Alec, Jerry is blunt, but He's right. For you, acting alone, the search was always hopeless. But with Jerry's help, you may find her. Not certain, but a hope worth pursuing. But time isn't relevant, five hundred years or five seconds. You don't have to understand it, but do please believe it.'
'All right. I will. Because otherwise there would be no hope, none.'
'But there is hope; all you have to do now is be patient.'
'I'll try. But I guess Marga and I will never have our soda fountain and lunch counter in Kansas.'
'Why not?' asked Jerry
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