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Robert A. Heinlein - The Cat Who Walked Through Walls
Atec Февраль 29 2008 20:18:18
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"Richard, I'm way out of my depth; I'm just a simple housewife-"
A groan went up in that hall. Lazarus may have led it but it seemed to be
unanimous.
"-who lacks a technical background. But I do know that engineering progress
depends on accurate instruments, and that accurate instruments ever since the
twentieth century-my century-have depended on progress in electronics. My
number-one husband Jake Burroughs and Dr. Libby Long and Dr. Deety Carter are
whipping up a little doozy combining Jake's space-time twister with television
and the ordinary snooper-scope. With it you will be able not only to watch what
your wife is doing while you are away overnight but also to watch what she will
be doing ten years from now. Or fifty. Or five hundred.
"Or it could let the Circle of Ouroboros see what would be the result of an
intervention before it is too late to refrain. Maybe. With the unique power of
Holmes IV-maybe yes. We'll see. But it is as certain as anything can be in this
quicksand world that Mike Holmes IV can improve the performance of the Circle of
Ouroboros enormously even if the supersnooperscope never comes on line.
"Since we are trying hard to make things better, more decent, happier for
everyone, I hope that you will see that Task Adam Selene is worth doing. Any
questions?"
"I have one, Hilda."
"Yes, Jubal?"
"Has our friend Richard been indoctrinated in the concept of the World as
Myth?"
"I barely mentioned it, once, in telling him how we four- Zeb and Deety,
Jake and I-were hounded off our planet and erased out of the script
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