Michael Malone - Weebly

design or a complex of technology and bureaucracy or
by nothing at all, should not fault Dingleyans for seeing
no more than we do. The same heart beats in every
human breast and is as little listened to. Even less should
Dingleyans be expected to have explored the plot north
of the marshlands, when life has given them so short a
time and so slight a skill to explore themselves.
But the plot is there. North of the marshlands is a
secret base, which began Operation Archangel in 1969
and which, in the preoccupations of an unlucky
administration's fall, was never told to stop.
So it never did.
The secret base happens to be, in 1976, that
Bicentennial year, the unseen antagonist of Dingley
Falls, Connecticut, but the townspeople, though some
have heard rumors and some have seen lights, know
nothing about it. Suppose they did know what was up
there, outside their limits? How could they, any more
than we would, think that a government base (a
collection of orders, buildings, formulae, men, and test
tubes) was a chief plotter against them? And was only
one of unknown numbers of plots? In melodramas there