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Robert A. Heinlein - The Cat Who Walked Through Walls
Atec Февраль 29 2008 20:18:18
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Thanks for keeping them all distracted while I coped with it. Good show, love!"
"You got what you were after?"
"I think so. I'll know more after Papa Mannie looks over my photographs.
It's just a big lonely room, Richard, crowded with old-fashioned electronics
equipment. I shot it from about twenty angles, and stereoed each shot by
hand-held offset- not perfect but I've practiced it."
"That's all? This visit?"
"Yes. Well, mostly."
Her voice was choked; I looked at her, saw that her eyes were filled with
tears about to overflow. "Why, darling! What's the matter?"
"N- n- nothing."
"Tell me."
"Richard, he's in there!"
"Huh?"
"He's asleep in there. I know, I could feel him. Adam Selene."
The tube capsule slammed into the station about then, to my relief-there
are subjects for which words are useless. The capsule was packed full; we could
not talk en route. By the time we were back in L-City my darling had quieted
down and I could avoid the subject. The crowds in the corridors made talk
difficult anyhow. Luna City is crowded at any time; on Saturdays half the
Loonies from other warrens come in to shop; this Saturday the usual weekend
crowd was augmented by Shriners and their wives from all over North America and
elsewhere.
As we came down out of Tube Station West into pressure two at outer ring,
we faced Sears Montgomery
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