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Robert A. Heinlein - A Comedy Of Justice
Atec Февраль 27 2008 02:52:13
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'Five centuries? They won't even speak the same language. There will be no one who knows a hot fudge sundae, from curried goat. Customs change.'
'So you reinvent the hot fudge sundae and make a killing. Don't be a pessimist, son.'
'Would you like one right now?' asked Sybil.
'I don't think he had better mix it with Jack Daniel's,' Jerry advised.
`Thanks, Sybil... but Iґd probably cry in it. I associate it with Marga.ґ
So don't. Son, crying in your drink is bad enough crying into a hot fudge sundae is disgusting.'
'Do I get to finish the story of my scandalous youth, or won't anybody listen?'
I sai 'Katie, I'm listening. You made a deal with Joshua.'
'With his spies. Alec love, to anyone whose love and respect I want - you, I mean I need to explain something. Some people who know who I am - and even more who don't - class Rahab the harlot as a traitor. Treason in time of war, betrayal of fellow citizens, all that. I -ґ
'I never thought so, Katie. Jehovah had decreed that Jericho', would fall. Since it was ordained, you couldn't change it. What you did was to save your father and mother and the other kids.'
'Yes, but there is more to it, Alec. Patriotism is a fairly late concept. Back then, in the land of Canaan, any loyalty other than to one's family was personal loyalty to a chief of some sort - usually a successful warrior who dubbed himself "king". Alec, a whore doesn't - didn't - have that sort of loyalty
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