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Containing nothing. Am I to walk? What is arrival? Meanwhile, doctors in Perth are embarking on new research to determine, as I pace my own resignation, early signs of cancer detected in a breath test. Funding, write a grant in my sleep? Another perch. Meanwhile, we fall behind the rest of the world if we do not pass additional legislation allowing somatic cell nuclear transfusion. Where are the breathtaking benefits, he might ask. Have a seat and I will tell. Consider the breathtaking benefits of deciphering the code in which you live. Determined in strings of letters. I want to make sense of walking embattlements, passing obligatory mandates, exemplary research assistants, impeccable laboratory facilities. The safest and most up to date. Will none of this impel him? I will offer him a drink, a taste of what is at stake, the staggering list of proponents. The hidden history of the Institute which must not be hurried in confession. But what is at stake? I will sit and assess the numbers. Numbers are elemental. Certainly a body is sincere arriving in mere particles, but evidenced present and substantially divine. He took himself from the premises to walk where along the way he would be wanted with all of those assembled for a similar purpose. He arrived beyond the morning after some confiding along the long lean strip of highway— far from his destination. To his own taciturn notebook he spoke, and the riveted oral recorder took this down, including all of the pauses and breaths he took as he articulated his thought. Until his attention was broken by another walking to recant or perhaps recoil a direction. “Hello Zurg.” He looked up, unaccountably interrupted. In an instant Zurg had assessed Buzz, looking down, distracted, unblinking and not exuding the usual assurance which Zurg both admired and resented. Usually he had the type of composure only possible for the self-contained innocent. Today he was deliberate. Speaking in low tones. And, given their history Zurg was going to probe. Both of them knew it and only Zurg was glad of it. He fell into step with Buzz. Borrowed his form audibly as he walked. Not asking anything first but simply observing. And then. “The project ?” — he began, safely, or so he thought. 13
“Yes, the mother cells they are not yet, or —we are not yet certain of the daughters, of their whereabouts— of their—“ how shall I put it, he wondered, and paused. “Of their choices.” He smiled and was back again upon his former terrain. Not the right question thought Zurg. Again silent. And then, “Won’t you walk back with me? We’ll be expected shortly. Starla sent me out to find you. “ “Yes.” As they moved down the leaner still strip of highway they soon entered the virtual countryside, or as it was now more often called the Future-View. It began with a cunning dark lake upon which appeared small glossy boats and persons of all ages attired for summer. As they continued the mock season changed to secure skaters and snow. “Will we ever get used to it?” he asked. “It’s all we’ve ever known.” “Not — natural,” he said through his teeth, hoping to end the volley. “Much better to look at than what remains beneath.” “Yes, the veneer.” His look dropped again. Zurg was like Buzz in that he was replete with constant plans, though his differed in that one might call them campaigns rather than aspirations. “Starla said she would have liked to join us but that she is held up at the Institute in preparations and she is wanting to hear from you. Especially about the arrival of your protégé. We’re all very much looking forward to seeing him.” Without realizing himself that he had done so, Buzz stopped moving. How was it that all of these others had some claim, some opinion, some anticipation? The somewhat absurd arrow he stunningly felt was that he had no desire for Gray to meet all of these persons. Zurg was noting Buzz’s face, saying nothing at all. So this is the note, he thought. “I have just heard of it myself, and have not yet seen him.” Zurg smiled. “Of course this morning he arrived at the transport. Starla would like him to dinner tonight. If you agree.” “What particular interest does she take in him” he asked somewhat stirred but still maintaining a forced semblance of his former containment. Zurg replied “I believe at the Endocardium Station furthest quadrant abroad she met him— but then as I remember it, it wasn’t him was it? She met some colleague or relation of his. She knows all 14
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