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.Muscular relaxationis a factor, and Nora can tell you more about it.But I understand that even forpersons past the optimum ageWRIGHT: A moment, please& I cannot go back to Earth, Captain Slade.Youmean it with the greatest kindness but it is impossible.SLADE: Why, forgive me, I supposed I took it for grantedWRIGHT: My place is here.This is my work.These are my people.TEJRON: I knew I knewWRIGHT: What, my dear? I don't understand.TEJRON: Oh, I should keep silent: this is for you to decide.But you've said it.You won't leave us.WRIGHT: No.No, I won't ever leave you.This is my home.SLADE: ButSPEARMAN: Can't argue with the passion of an expatriate.The grass is alwaysgreenerPAUL: It could be no other way, Captain, at least for Dr.Wright and me, and I'mcertain my wife will say the same when she comes back.WRIGHT: In some ways, Captain, the distance between Earth and Lucifer isgreater than the simple light years between our two stars.SLADE: I'm sorry.Wasn't expecting it, that's all.Let me get used to the idea alittle.SPEARMAN: You can consider me neutral, Captain Slade.I have no place onLucifer.One more Utopia.Idealism running contrary to obvious facts.It will breakup fine-spun intellectual quarrels no central control.PAUL: Until, sometime, a strong man takes over and makes an empire out ofit& ?WRIGHT: PleaseSPEARMAN: No comment&STERN: If I might differ with you, Mr.Spearman, it seems to me after beingshown over this lovely island the domesticated cattle and those wonderful whitebeasts the plantations and the houses the perfect English and adult thinking ofour new friends above all, the school it seems to me that Dr.Wright and hiscolleagues are realists of the first water.Of course I'm strongly prejudiced in theirfavor, because well, during the twelve years of our journey I dreamed constantly ofsome such achievement as this myself.So it's like coming home.I'm a doctor, Mr.Spearman; before I was chosen for the journey, I ran a clinic.As an intern, I had alot of ambulance and emergency service at one of the big hospitals in Melbourne; Isaw a superabundance of let's call them obvious facts.Now I think the sunny quiethere, the good health and intelligence of the children, the gardens, the devotion ofthese people to each other and to their work, the searching thought they've given totheir laws and their future I fancy those are obvious facts too& ?WRIGHT: Man is neither good nor bad, but both.But he can swing the balance.STERN: Too right.I think I understand you, Doctor why you want to stay here.I think I understand it very well.SLADE: I wouldn't urge you.It's only that I took something else for granted.Foolishly.Let me be just a listener.ELIS: And let me fill your cup.You're behind us, Captain.MINIAAN: The big jug is empty.How'd'at happen?MUSON: Portrait of a fat woman going away with another big jug.PAUL: Bless you, lady.MUSON: It was you that finished emptying it I think.NISANA: Couldn't have been me&STERN: Are there any important physiological differences?WRIGHT: Nothing of first importance.Minor differences in blood chemistry,shape of hands and feet.Our friends have the hind brain in the spinal column,which may be the reason for their better muscular co-ordination and you know,Doctor, I have often wished that the human race of Earth, which we call Charin,had more room in its head for the expansion of the frontal lobes.ELIS: I have a very high opinion of your frontal lobes, Christopher Wright.I havenoticed that sometimes a large skull merely rattles.STERN: Just the same the point is well taken.PAUL: Might call it the miracle of the lobes and wishes.PAKRIAA: Why don't you wait till Muson comes back& ?SALLY MARINO: Don't you now, maybe this is a foolish question don't youhave to work awfully hard I mean, with so few technical aids? The oh, oil lamps,the necessarily primitive of course, you've done miracles to have as much as you dohave, starting from almost nothing [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]