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Robert A. Heinlein - The Cat Who Walked Through Walls
Atec Февраль 29 2008 20:18:18
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. Gwen did it with pictures.
Listen carefully. Gwen had used all her ammo, six rounds, then-neat as
always-she had put her Miyako back into her purse. And pulled out her Mini
Helvetia, snapped two frames.
She had tilted her camera down a bit, for it showed not only both bandit
vehicles but also three casualties on the ground and one bandit up and moving.
The second shot showed four on the ground and the superdoughnut turned away.
I can't figure an exact time line on this but there must have been at least
four seconds from the time she ran out of ammo to the time the giant wheel
turned away. With a fast camera it takes about as long to shoot one frame as it
does to fire one shot with a semi-automatic slug gun.
So the question is: What did she do with the other two seconds? Just waste
them?
XV
"Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men
do all the time"
LOWELL STONE, M.D. 2144-
We didn't break into a run but we got out of there as fast as possible.
True, Auntie had clobbered Mr. Mao into accepting me as a "hero" rather than a
criminal-but that did not make him love me and I knew it.
Major Bozell did not even pretend to like me. Captain Mar-cy's "defection"
infuriated Bozell; Gwen's pictures actually showing bandits (where they could
not be!) broke his heart. Then his boss gave him the crudest blow by ordering
him to get his troops together and get out there and find them! Do it now! "If
you can't do it
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