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Robert A. Heinlein - Common Sense
Atec Февраль 27 2008 22:54:42
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. If you wanted a second set of controls, the place to put them would be the Captain's veranda, where you can see the stars."
"How about that?" Jim asked, indicating the wall of glass.
"Use your head," his brother advised. "It faces the wrong direction. It looks into the Ship, not out. And it's not an arrangement like the Control Room; there isn't any way to mirror the stars on it."
"Maybe we haven't located the controls for it."
"Even so, you've forgotten something. How about that little Converter?"
"What about it?"
"It must have some significance. It's not here by accident. I'll bet you that these controls have something to do with that Converter."
"Why?"
"Why not? Why are they here together if there isn't some connection?"
Hugh broke his puzzled silence. Everythmg the twins had said seemed to make sense, even the contradictions. It was all very confusing. But the Converter, the little Conver-- "Say, look," he burst out.
"Look at what?"
"Do you suppose -- Do you think that maybe this part of the Ship could move?"
"Naturally. The whole Ship moves."
"No," said Hugh, "no, no. I don't mean that at all. Suppose it moved by itself. These controls and the little Converter, suppose it could move right away from the Ship."
"That's pretty fantastic."
"Maybe so ... but if it's true, this is the way out."
"Huh?" said Joe. "Nonsense. No door to the Outside here either
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