Saturday, December 5, 2009

" At that very inopportune moment the softly passionate music stopped leaving the hall in sudden silence interspersed with rustling clothing. The silence lengthened. A single drumbeat slow inexorable signalled a dire.

Started this way. . . and they usually end with a romance between the pilot and the sweet young stowaway with a lavish ration of cops and robbers in between before he gets her. This one didn’t. No cops and robbers no romance. The Cold Equations—the laws of nature—said that she had to be jettisoned—killed—to permit that spaceship to land. - - And she was killed. There wasn’t any other possible answer. By 1980 a solid world government.
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And the bodies of the damned themselves exhale such a pestilential odour that as saint Bonaventure says one of them alone would suffice to infect the whole world. The very air of this world that pure element becomes foul and unbreathable when it has been long enclosed. Consider then what must be the foulness of the air of hell. Imagine some foul and putrid corpse that has lain rotting and decomposing in the grave a jelly-like mass of liquid corruption. Imagine such a corpse a prey to flames devoured by the fire of burning brimstone and giving off dense choking fumes of nauseous loathsome decomposition. And then imagine this sickening stench multiplied a millionfold and a millionfold again from the millions upon millions of fetid carcasses massed together in the reeking darkness a huge and rotting human fungus. Imagine all.
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