This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.
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20728 | ''What_ do_ you mean, Lord Trask?'' |
20728 | Alex, how many have you lost to Captain Harkaman? |
20728 | All that machinery and robotic equipment and so on that was going to Tanith-- was that aboard when he took the ship? |
20728 | And Prince Bentrik does n''t want to risk you and Steven being used as hostages? |
20728 | And the King? |
20728 | And then? |
20728 | And these persons here before us do enter into this marriage freely? |
20728 | And what have they to throw at it? |
20728 | And when he gets them all lured away, he''ll make a fast raid? |
20728 | And when you do kill him; what then? |
20728 | And who is Prime Minister? |
20728 | And you have been hunting him ever since? 20728 And you, Lady- Demoiselle Elaine?" |
20728 | Andray Dunnan? |
20728 | Are we interested? |
20728 | Are you all right, Simon? |
20728 | Are you people done yakking about who''s civilized and who is n''t? |
20728 | Are you really a Space Viking, Prince Trask? |
20728 | Are you really and truly the Space Viking? |
20728 | Are you still battle- worthy? |
20728 | Baron Spasso, now? |
20728 | Baron Valkanhayn? |
20728 | Because I can see through this hypocritical sham? 20728 Beside poultry, that is?" |
20728 | But are n''t you going to stay here? |
20728 | But is n''t the Duke of Wardshaven sending a ship here to establish a base? 20728 But what about your form of government, your social structure, that sort of thing?" |
20728 | But you maintain nominally friendly relations with them? |
20728 | But, Otto; both ships? |
20728 | Ca n''t they make anything out of it themselves? |
20728 | Could you talk your people into going to some other city? |
20728 | Crazy, am I? |
20728 | Did Spasso come back with you? |
20728 | Did n''t there use to be something they called privacy? |
20728 | Did you hear what he said about his rights? 20728 Do n''t you? |
20728 | Do n''t you? 20728 Do we want to waste time here, Lord Trask? |
20728 | Do you think he went to Tanith? |
20728 | Do you think it would be wise? |
20728 | Does he lay claim to the ducal throne, Sir Rovard? |
20728 | Eh, Goodman Lucas? |
20728 | Elaine, where are you? |
20728 | Elephant? |
20728 | Five years ago, when Dunnan started this programme, who was this Makann, anyhow? |
20728 | From the Gilgameshers? |
20728 | Gram; that is one of the Sword- Worlds, is it not? |
20728 | Great Satan, are n''t yours? |
20728 | Great Satan, are you against me, too? |
20728 | Great Satan, do n''t you know? 20728 Have a good nap?" |
20728 | Have any of them been back since? |
20728 | Have you ever been off Gram, at all? |
20728 | Have you ever heard of a Space Viking ship named the_ Enterprise_? |
20728 | Have you found anything out about the King, yet? |
20728 | Have you picked a place to raid? |
20728 | Have your fill of Space Viking glamour, Lucas? |
20728 | Hey, you''re not thinking of selling Amaterasu plutonium and Beowulf gadolinium, are you? |
20728 | How are you? |
20728 | How did he get hold of that Westlands Telecast and Teleprint car? |
20728 | How did they take it? |
20728 | How do you get food for them? |
20728 | How does Duke Joris like this? |
20728 | How far to Tanith? |
20728 | How in blazes did you find that out, here? |
20728 | How is little Princess Myrna? |
20728 | How large is this Council? |
20728 | How long ago? |
20728 | How many men and what kind? |
20728 | How say you, Lord Trask? |
20728 | Huh? 20728 I came out here after Andray Dunnan, did n''t I?" |
20728 | I do? 20728 I gather that gold is a monetary metal among your people?" |
20728 | I see four ships off Moonbase; how many more have they? |
20728 | I suppose I can get in touch with you at the Palace whenever I must? |
20728 | I suppose he knows that sooner or later Dunnan will try to attack Tanith? |
20728 | I suppose the King knows I''m not out here for my health, or his profit? |
20728 | I take it, Prince Trask, that you''re not going to assume that he was on his flagship when you blew it, and just put paid to him and forget him? |
20728 | I''d say it was a terror- raid, but who in Gehenna was he trying to terrorize? |
20728 | Is Prince Lucas Trask of Tanith here? |
20728 | Is Your Majesty absolute ruler of these domains? |
20728 | Is his Majesty making it worth while to accept his sovereignty? |
20728 | Is n''t that the_ Enterprise_ you''re in? |
20728 | Is she the_ Enterprise_? |
20728 | Is that a Sword- World robot, sir, or did you capture it somewhere? |
20728 | Is that a regular Space Viking trick? |
20728 | Is the Duke coming? |
20728 | Is there anything worth staying for? |
20728 | Is this how you Space Vikings keep faith? |
20728 | It would take twenty trips with a ship the size of this one to get all that stuff here, and how''d we ever be able to pay for it? |
20728 | It''s like that? |
20728 | Just what''s been happening? |
20728 | Just who do you think the Neobarbarians are, anyhow? |
20728 | Lady Valerie and who else? |
20728 | Lady Valerie, will you come with us? |
20728 | Like what? |
20728 | Lord Dunnan, what do you wish to say to me? |
20728 | May I put it on, to show you what I mean? |
20728 | Not_ yet_? |
20728 | Oh, you are? |
20728 | Oh? |
20728 | Or do n''t you bother? |
20728 | Otherwise, what would he want with all that air- and- water and hydroponic and carniculture stuff? |
20728 | Passengers? |
20728 | Paul, can you cut in on that Eglonsby station yet? |
20728 | Permission to come aboard, sir? |
20728 | Pick all this stuff up off the locals? |
20728 | Prince Trask, has Her Highness been bothering you? |
20728 | Prince Trask, have you heard of a man named Zaspar Makann? |
20728 | Rovard, how soon will that second ship be finished? |
20728 | Some race of invading nomads; Attila''s Huns in spaceships? |
20728 | Suppose Dunnan comes and finds nobody here but Spasso and the_ Lamia_? |
20728 | Sure the car''s ready? |
20728 | Tetragrammaton? |
20728 | That is, beside vellum scrolls? |
20728 | That''s Zaspar Makann and his stooges you''re talking about? |
20728 | The books from the Eglonsby library? |
20728 | The_ Damnthing_? 20728 The_ Nemesis_, the_ Corisande_, and the_ Space Scourge_ for sure?" |
20728 | Then what will you do? |
20728 | They have n''t done anything to you, have they? |
20728 | This order came from Makann? |
20728 | Was he killed? |
20728 | We last met on the terrace at Karvall House, did we not? |
20728 | Well, are n''t you? |
20728 | Well, could n''t we make some kind of a deal? |
20728 | Well, great Satan, have n''t you done anything? |
20728 | Well, have you any conception of the sort of thing you''re setting yourself to? |
20728 | Well, how about the Mardukan Navy? |
20728 | Well, how did Myrna get to Moonbase? |
20728 | Well, is n''t that who they are? |
20728 | Well, is she a good guy or a bad guy? |
20728 | Well, so what? |
20728 | Well, suppose the people of some barony rebel? 20728 Well, what prevents the Government from enslaving the people? |
20728 | Well, what''s this, here? |
20728 | What about the rest of the government? |
20728 | What are you devoted to, Otto? |
20728 | What are you going to do? |
20728 | What do you think about it? |
20728 | What else would you have done? |
20728 | What happened to Elaine? |
20728 | What happened? 20728 What is Prince Bentrik doing, and why did he think there was danger that you two would be used as hostages?" |
20728 | What kind of repairs? 20728 What sort of a captain is this Teodor Vaghn?" |
20728 | What troops? 20728 What was he buying them with? |
20728 | What would you do in their place? |
20728 | What''s Tanith like? |
20728 | What? |
20728 | When she was--? |
20728 | When will the fire be, I wonder? |
20728 | Where are the other ships, now? |
20728 | Where did you hear this? 20728 Where should Guatt put us?" |
20728 | Where would we get twenty ships? |
20728 | Where''s Prince Bentrik? |
20728 | Where''s the_ Black Star_? |
20728 | Where''s yours? |
20728 | Which way; west around the planet? 20728 Who are they?" |
20728 | Who are you? |
20728 | Who came in the Ward car? |
20728 | Who do you think you are--? |
20728 | Why did n''t he come here directly, then? |
20728 | Why did the Crown Prince lend himself to a thing like that? |
20728 | Why do you cover your head; why do you speak to me as a stranger? 20728 Why do you think the Beowulfers do n''t have hyperships, when they have everything else?" |
20728 | Why does n''t your Government publish the facts and put a stop to that nonsense? |
20728 | Why not? 20728 Why should they mine it? |
20728 | With three and a half billion people spread out on twelve planets? 20728 Would you be willing to make the trip in the_ Space Scourge_, too?" |
20728 | Would you want to be my girl? 20728 Would you?" |
20728 | Yes; stupid of them, is n''t it? |
20728 | You call this chicken- stealing? |
20728 | You crazy or something? |
20728 | You did n''t lose any men, did you? |
20728 | You did n''t really believe Dunnan was on Marduk? |
20728 | You have troubles? |
20728 | You know how that ship''s run? |
20728 | You know what their idea was? |
20728 | You know what this is, do n''t you? |
20728 | You know what would happen next, do n''t you? 20728 You know what''ll happen?" |
20728 | You know why? 20728 You mean the Duke of Wardshaven has two ships?" |
20728 | You mean the King? |
20728 | You mean the planets we use as bases, and the things we teach the locals? |
20728 | You mean you''re not staying? |
20728 | You mean, he''s making a string of terror- raids on their trade planets, hoping to pull the Mardukan space- navy away from the home planet? |
20728 | You mean, warn them? 20728 You mean, you think Dunnan''s trying to terrorize_ Marduk_?" |
20728 | You mean, you''ll trade Traskon for that ship? |
20728 | You mean_ we''re_ civilized planets? 20728 You need all your people for fighting men, do n''t you?" |
20728 | You said business was bad, as business? |
20728 | You saw the_ Space Scourge_ when she came in, did n''t you? 20728 You say he was buying supplies and ammunition?" |
20728 | You see what you did, now? |
20728 | You think I believe that? 20728 You think I do, sir?" |
20728 | You think it''ll be like that? |
20728 | You think we do n''t have plenty of Neobarbarian material here on Gram? |
20728 | You think we_ ought_ to pay them? |
20728 | You were n''t just sitting on your hands, were you? |
20728 | You wish, now, that you''d kept Traskon and stayed on Gram? |
20728 | You''re at this old city with the two tall tower- buildings, are n''t you? |
20728 | You''re interested in history? |
20728 | You''re just spacing right out again? |
20728 | You''re not speaking of Queen Flavia, are you? |
20728 | *****"Is it Princess Myrna, or is it Queen Myrna?" |
20728 | *****"Who approaches us?" |
20728 | *****"You mean, the people are armed?" |
20728 | A number of our people are going along-- Guatt Kirbey will be the astrogator; you''d trust him, would n''t you? |
20728 | After the first mouthful, he called to Alvyn Karffard:"Is Paul getting anything new?" |
20728 | And Otto Harkaman; you never met him, did you, Lucas?" |
20728 | And beside, had n''t they gotten enough loot on Amaterasu? |
20728 | And if you do n''t leave anybody behind, what''s the use of having a planetary base?" |
20728 | And now, you ca n''t be sure whether you killed him or not?" |
20728 | And the third planet?" |
20728 | And they have an embassy here?" |
20728 | And when?" |
20728 | And who are you two?" |
20728 | And you object? |
20728 | Are you a tyrant? |
20728 | Are you going to back me up? |
20728 | Are you really a Prince? |
20728 | Are you still prepared to resist?" |
20728 | But are n''t you proposing marriage on rather short acquaintance? |
20728 | But they do n''t have nuclear energy, do they?" |
20728 | But we ca n''t trust Spasso here alone, can we?" |
20728 | But what have we gotten, since those Gilgameshers told us about his picking up Burrik''s ship and the_ Honest Horris_? |
20728 | But where will you get a ship?" |
20728 | But where would he find Dunnan, in two hundred billion cubic light- years? |
20728 | But why not? |
20728 | Combat damage?" |
20728 | Did they get him?" |
20728 | Do n''t they know what happened?" |
20728 | Do you have nuclear power? |
20728 | Do you know anything about a Space Viking raid on Aton, over a century ago?" |
20728 | Do you know anything about nuclear weapons?" |
20728 | Do you know why that planet was so extensively colonized by the Federation, when there do n''t seem to be any fissionable ores? |
20728 | Does n''t the government do anything positive for the people?" |
20728 | Does this also have the approval of the Prime Minister and the King?" |
20728 | Have I your permission to present, informally, their commander, Prince Trask of Tanith?" |
20728 | Have there been any more raids on Marduk trade- planets since the Battle of Audhumla?" |
20728 | Have you any idea at all where he might be based, Prince Trask?" |
20728 | Have you seen the grottoes? |
20728 | He is n''t the Duke of Wardshaven, is he?" |
20728 | He looked around in sudden fright;"For the love of Satan, where''s our shawl?" |
20728 | He thanked the Space Viking, and then asked:"Did he know, at the time, that I''m out here hunting for him?" |
20728 | He was the ruler of the civilized planet of Tanith, was n''t he? |
20728 | How are you fixed for robotic equipment?" |
20728 | How are you going to do it, Lord Trask?" |
20728 | How does it happen?" |
20728 | How long have you been here on Tanith?" |
20728 | How long, he wondered, had they been drilling in that sort of tactics? |
20728 | How many more happinesses do you think we''ve smashed here today? |
20728 | How would that be?" |
20728 | How would you like to be my girl on Marduk?" |
20728 | How''s the spaceport? |
20728 | I hope he doesn''t--""Has Dunnan been bothering Elaine again?" |
20728 | I take it you''ve had all of our blessed sovereign you can stomach?" |
20728 | If there is a battle you will see that Steven''s in a safe place, wo n''t you?" |
20728 | If we turn him over to you, will you let us go?" |
20728 | If your Ministerial duties do not forbid, could you be the company?" |
20728 | Interrogative: What ship are you? |
20728 | Is Prince Edvard still Prime Minister?" |
20728 | Is that it?" |
20728 | Is the King still alive?" |
20728 | It would take almost a year to get to it on Abbot drive, and if your ship has Dillinghams, why not take a little longer and go to a good planet? |
20728 | Kings do n''t lie when they''re on the Throne, do they?" |
20728 | Like Marduk, or Baldur or Odin, or...?" |
20728 | Lucas, why do n''t you come back? |
20728 | Makann deposed the King and took over?" |
20728 | Makann to Power!_""You even let him have a private army?" |
20728 | Myrna had accepted, at eight, that she must some day marry for reasons of state; why not her playmate Steven? |
20728 | Now, you say you want steel?" |
20728 | Perhaps you find me personally objectionable?" |
20728 | Remember how he convinced himself that he was the rightful heir to the ducal crown of Wardshaven?" |
20728 | Remember, I was reading up on Hitler, coming in from Marduk? |
20728 | Remember?" |
20728 | Responsibilities? |
20728 | She bore the head of a beast with three very big horns?" |
20728 | So how could he score all of us off at once? |
20728 | So there is boastful talk about planetary self- sufficiency; who needs off- planet trade anyhow? |
20728 | So what did they do? |
20728 | Something about old age not being a usual cause of death among Space Vikings, was n''t it? |
20728 | That Gram gum- pear brandy you''re putting in that coffee? |
20728 | That was a terror- raid pure and simple, but as Boake inquires, just who were they terrorizing? |
20728 | That''s the_ Space Scourge_ you''re in, I take it? |
20728 | The Old Federation area was full of non- Terra- type planets, and why should anybody bother going to any of them? |
20728 | The only question is, do we want to bother?" |
20728 | Then, as they were having a drink together, he put his foot in it by asking:"You''re not an investor in the Tanith Adventure, are you?" |
20728 | Then, there were four of Andray Dunnan''s ships--""You mean, he really is on Marduk?" |
20728 | They could n''t understand that; Marduk was supposed to be a civilized planet, was n''t it? |
20728 | They mean, why do n''t we let them join us?" |
20728 | Think it''s time, Lucas?" |
20728 | Think my men may have trouble on Marduk about that? |
20728 | This crowd that wants an attack on Xochitl; you know what would happen if we did that?" |
20728 | Trading machinery?" |
20728 | Well, if he was going to be a king, should n''t he have a queen? |
20728 | Well, maybe regents did, but who gave Prince Bentrik authority to call himself regent? |
20728 | Well, was n''t it? |
20728 | Well, what had Otto Harkaman said, so long ago, on Gram? |
20728 | Well, why not? |
20728 | Well, why not? |
20728 | Well, why not? |
20728 | What about the_ Honest Horris_; was n''t Makann blocking any investigation about her? |
20728 | What are you doing here on Tanith?" |
20728 | What are you getting out of it-- beside poultry?" |
20728 | What do they have a government for?" |
20728 | What else can he do? |
20728 | What happened?" |
20728 | What would Hitler have done if he''d told one of his big lies, and then found it turning into the truth? |
20728 | What''s her screen- combination?" |
20728 | What_ do_ you mean, Lord Trask?" |
20728 | When was the last time anybody attacked a civilized planet? |
20728 | Where would we get plutonium?" |
20728 | Who had they done that to? |
20728 | Who has the arms on your planet?" |
20728 | Who said that?" |
20728 | Who tipped Dunnan off that the_ Victrix_ would be on Audhumla? |
20728 | Who''s the gentleman with you? |
20728 | Why are you letting them force you into this wicked marriage?" |
20728 | Why did you do that?" |
20728 | Why have n''t we raided it bare long ago? |
20728 | Why was Admiral Shefter retired as soon as Makann got into power? |
20728 | Why?" |
20728 | Will you hold your fire until somebody in authority can communicate with you? |
20728 | Wo n''t the king send troops to support the baron?" |
20728 | Would it be Dunnan himself, and what would his face show when he saw who confronted him out of his own screen? |
20728 | XXV"Do you think I was afraid of Viktor of Xochitl?" |
20728 | You do n''t think, do you, that I need assurance of it?" |
20728 | You have a few on Tanith, have n''t you? |
20728 | You have a metallic- based currency, I suppose?" |
20728 | You hearing this, Guatt?" |
20728 | You know the figures, that is, but do they mean anything to you? |
20728 | You mean to tell me that the_ Enterprise_ has n''t been here?" |
20728 | You met the ambassador from Ithavoll at dinner, did you not? |
20728 | You put out a general alert? |
20728 | You see what you did?" |
20728 | You think he and Dunnan have teamed up?" |
20728 | You think there might be some tie- up between him and Dunnan?" |
20728 | You think you can take it away from us?" |
20728 | You want to give him an argument? |
20728 | You want us to sit here and build up population pressure like Terra in the First Century?" |
20728 | Your Highness, I mean; what is this Prince- Protector thing?" |
20728 | [ Illustration]"Lord Trask, will you deal with these people directly?" |
20728 | [ Illustration]"You do n''t want to do either, do you?" |
20728 | he asked, and then, trying to be casual, added,"and Lady Valerie?" |
32706 | A tractor-- inertialess? |
32706 | Ah... so you do not want me to remember? |
32706 | Am I apt to? 32706 Am I...?" |
32706 | An adept of North Polar Jupiter--_then_? |
32706 | And where will you build it? 32706 And you have n''t been able to devise anything better?" |
32706 | Any excitement around there yet? |
32706 | Anything in sight, sir? |
32706 | Are n''t you even going to_ try_ to find them? |
32706 | Are n''t you going to do something, Conway? |
32706 | Are we agreed? |
32706 | Are you fellows down there able to handle yourselves yet? 32706 Are you quite sure that you have n''t had_ anything_ to do with it? |
32706 | Awake, girl? |
32706 | Back to Tellus, sir? |
32706 | Bart, will you dictate a one- page preliminary report to Vera and rush it over to Building One as fast as you can? 32706 Better tell us what it is, had n''t you?" |
32706 | But can nothing be done to alleviate...? |
32706 | But do you think he will chase us? |
32706 | But do you think he will pay any attention to it? |
32706 | But had n''t you better get Captain Bradley first? 32706 But how about the other prisoners?" |
32706 | But how did you know what it was? 32706 But just how are we going to get there? |
32706 | But of what use is it, Roger? |
32706 | But the blocks? |
32706 | But what can we do, Conway? |
32706 | But what can we possibly do? |
32706 | But what can you do about it? |
32706 | But what the hell''s so hush- hush about_ that_ stuff? |
32706 | But why did n''t you simply kill them? |
32706 | But why should n''t they have? 32706 But wo n''t the scouts and patrols be catching us pretty quick? |
32706 | But you ai n''t got no binoculars, have you? |
32706 | But you-- how can you do it? |
32706 | Ca n''t you get it into your skull what you''ll be letting yourself in for if you marry me? 32706 Can you rig it up for photography?" |
32706 | Cigarette, buddy? |
32706 | Clio? |
32706 | Clio? |
32706 | Could you hold your beam, Randolph? |
32706 | Designing Engineer for Lockwood? 32706 Difficult?" |
32706 | Do n''t you know, Senator, that the Hill is not a part of the North American Continent? 32706 Do n''t_ talk_ that way-- we''re safe now, Con... Spud? |
32706 | Do we kill him now or do we let him suffer a while longer? |
32706 | Do you expect us to go through_ water_, and at this frightful depth? |
32706 | Do you know something, or are you just whistling in the dark? |
32706 | Do you think that you can pull away from them, Conway? |
32706 | Does he mean it? |
32706 | Exactly what is the alternative? |
32706 | Explain, please? |
32706 | Fermius the Gaul? 32706 Fifty grams-- and everybody knows that Samms himself is rated at only sixty? |
32706 | Get me Spearmint... Spearmint? 32706 Giving us the once- over, eh?" |
32706 | Going to have to circle it once, are n''t you? |
32706 | Good Lord, Clio, why did n''t you call me? |
32706 | Got a compass? |
32706 | Got any idea how fast we''re going? |
32706 | Got anybody you would like to put on it, immediately? |
32706 | Got pretty nearly enough distance now, Costigan? |
32706 | Have you any idea where they''re taking us? |
32706 | Have you any suggestions to offer? |
32706 | Have you fellows got enough stuff so that you think you can take him? 32706 Have you got any ammunition, sergeant?" |
32706 | He ca n''t catch us for plenty of days yet... now what? |
32706 | He''s crawly and scaly and snaky; and he smells so... so...."So rank and fishy? |
32706 | How about Miss Marsden? |
32706 | How about food, water, and air-- would we ever get there? |
32706 | How are they coming, Captain? |
32706 | How are you going to handle things when we get there? |
32706 | How come so many at once? |
32706 | How did you find_ me_ so quick? |
32706 | How do the various reports dovetail together? 32706 How do you know?" |
32706 | How in.... How could they have let them get_ that_ far? |
32706 | How? |
32706 | Huh? 32706 Huh? |
32706 | Huh? 32706 Huh? |
32706 | Huh? |
32706 | Huh? |
32706 | I am a poor, ignorant specimen of ape that can be let play with apparatus, am I? |
32706 | I say, Penrose, I''d like to ask you a couple of questions, if you do n''t mind? |
32706 | I should leave immediately if I thought that that ship could win; but I do not fancy that it can, do you? |
32706 | I slept wonderfully well, but I wonder if I can sleep tonight without making you hold my hand all night? |
32706 | I suppose that was why you revived me-- in payment for so kindly warning you of the gas attack? |
32706 | I trust, Senator, that Fairchild has taken care of you satisfactorily? |
32706 | I wonder if there is n''t something in those wild rumors we''ve been hearing lately? |
32706 | I wonder why? |
32706 | I wonder... do you really believe that you can keep me from remembering? 32706 I''m First Lieutenant Randolph, of....""Rank, eh?" |
32706 | If some one is working on me through my job, what position are you probably already in, without knowing it? 32706 If you will tell me what matter is, fundamentally, I may agree with you.... No? |
32706 | In defiance of_ me_? 32706 Incompatibility, say?" |
32706 | Is our stuff getting away? 32706 Is that so? |
32706 | Is there any doubt whatever in your minds as to the System to which that ship belongs? |
32706 | Is there any small thing which I should be told in order to be of greatest use? |
32706 | Is there anything on this ship you fellows want? |
32706 | Is this IT? |
32706 | It will be Nero, then? 32706 Just in case you get scragged in one of these brawls and I do n''t?" |
32706 | Kinnison speaking... yes... Dr. Sumner? 32706 Kinnison, how in hell do you handle those Siberians? |
32706 | Lock them in one of the storage rooms? |
32706 | Love you? 32706 Maybe, if we raise enough hell, we can make them fire us, too?" |
32706 | Murf? 32706 No? |
32706 | None of you are leaving? 32706 Not turn- over time already, is it?" |
32706 | Nothing new on Conway? |
32706 | Now just what could you offer any_ man_ to make him join your outfit? |
32706 | Of course, if you say so, but why not throw the hooks into him yourself, as usual? |
32706 | Of course, we are n''t attacking them, either, but you''d think... do you suppose that they are waiting for Nerado? |
32706 | Of course... what next? |
32706 | Officer Artomenes? |
32706 | Oh, that kind, eh? 32706 Once out, then what?" |
32706 | Or maybe last night, or yesterday morning? 32706 Peculiar-- highly perplexing-- why should that one stimulus, in the case of young females, produce such an entirely disproportionate reaction?" |
32706 | Ready? 32706 Really? |
32706 | Right of way, Norma? |
32706 | Rub you out? 32706 Run?" |
32706 | Samms? 32706 Sit still here and let them annihilate us?" |
32706 | So that wall_ is_ real, after all? 32706 So what? |
32706 | So what? |
32706 | Suppose they get their gravity fixed? |
32706 | Sure you got your caffeine tablets? |
32706 | Surrender? 32706 That power, what is it?" |
32706 | That ship? 32706 That was perfectly all right, what he did and what they did-- what else could they have done?" |
32706 | That''s something new, is n''t it? |
32706 | That''s why you took the live one? |
32706 | The Germans developed it originally, did n''t they? |
32706 | The only other thing is, then, shall we blow them out of the ether first? |
32706 | Then back to Tellus at maximum? |
32706 | Then they can detect us? |
32706 | Then you will probably be willing to give us a ship and let us go back to our own world? |
32706 | They''ll be killed, wo n''t they? |
32706 | They''ll run that bunch of crap through, and then...."Will you promise not to quit until they do? |
32706 | Think you can sleep now, sweetheart? |
32706 | Those? |
32706 | Tractor beams? |
32706 | Two minutes to atmosphere? 32706 Wanna get your blocks shot off? |
32706 | Well, Fritz, what do you know? |
32706 | Well, Iron- heart,he burst out finally,"are n''t you even curious about what you have got to do today?" |
32706 | What are they doing that for, Conway? 32706 What are those fish, anyway, Conway?" |
32706 | What are you going to do? |
32706 | What are you, anyway? |
32706 | What assurance do we have that Talmonides himself is not one of the ringleaders? 32706 What can it possibly be, anyway, and what can we do about it?" |
32706 | What do you make of that, Costigan? |
32706 | What do you mean, too late? 32706 What do you think, Knobos? |
32706 | What gives? |
32706 | What hit me? |
32706 | What in hell have they got in their heads-- sawdust? 32706 What is it, then?" |
32706 | What is what? |
32706 | What shall we do with them, sir? |
32706 | What to do? 32706 What was it?" |
32706 | What would you call this kind of flight, Fritz? |
32706 | What would you say ought to be done with the machine- guns? |
32706 | What''s the opposite of''inert''? |
32706 | What, then? |
32706 | What? 32706 What? |
32706 | What? 32706 What?" |
32706 | What? |
32706 | When, or if? |
32706 | Where are they? |
32706 | Where are you going? |
32706 | Where are your blasters? |
32706 | Where did you get such a preposterous idea? 32706 Who decided to make this investigation?" |
32706 | Whom do you suspect? 32706 Why bother about one little flash, after all that really did happen?" |
32706 | Why not? 32706 Why, oh_ why_ did n''t I have somebody rig up a secondary SX7 beam on Ten''s inner rings? |
32706 | Why? 32706 Why?" |
32706 | Worm? 32706 Would not one do better by stopping on?" |
32706 | Would you, Cleve? |
32706 | Yes? 32706 Yes?" |
32706 | You have your data tabulated in symbolics? |
32706 | You know Nerado mentioned several times the''semicivilized fishes of the greater deeps''? |
32706 | You know what? 32706 You mean the_ Endymion_? |
32706 | You think Roger launched something? 32706 Your Supremacy? |
32706 | _ Think_ so? 32706 ''Free''and''Inert''maneuvering, eh? 32706 ''Service Specials''--but you did n''t specify exactly_ what_ Service, did you? |
32706 | 19--? |
32706 | A target? |
32706 | Advise you that while at the present time the War Department is unable to use you....""Would n''t that fry you to a crisp?" |
32706 | Afire? |
32706 | All right, girl?" |
32706 | Along the road? |
32706 | Am I going to fight Fermius, or do you want to do it yourself?" |
32706 | And above all,_ why_?" |
32706 | And can it be possible that you are actually so aberrant as to believe that you can kill me-- or even the youngest Arisian infant? |
32706 | And could I-- or anyone else-- have succeeded in doing so?" |
32706 | And how about that one ship which remains untouched?" |
32706 | And how sure are you that there is n''t something similar, but not so far advanced, already aimed at you? |
32706 | And they ca n''t talk-- not one of them has made a sound-- suppose they can be deaf and dumb?" |
32706 | And we can do nothing?" |
32706 | And what could be more innocent than the regulation personal equipment of every officer of space? |
32706 | And whom am I to love a girl like you? |
32706 | And yet, had not the physicist dimly foreseen the possibility of such an actual velocity-- or had he? |
32706 | Any tools aboard?" |
32706 | Anything else?" |
32706 | Are there any more questions?" |
32706 | Are there any more questions?" |
32706 | Are there any other matters of moment...? |
32706 | Are they attacking or running?" |
32706 | Are you O.K., or wounded, or maybe dead?" |
32706 | Are you really sure that you can bring him to?" |
32706 | At this price, is your life worth living? |
32706 | Being you, how can you do anything else? |
32706 | Besides, how about Barton? |
32706 | Besides, when you were walking out to meet Fermius, did you notice that red- headed Greek posturer making passes at you?" |
32706 | Black?" |
32706 | Bradley? |
32706 | But Knobos is on now-- what do you want him to do about the_ Endymion_?" |
32706 | But as to landing-- and warning-- and dying-- surely you do not think that I am present in the flesh? |
32706 | But first, are you sure that you''re in the clear?" |
32706 | But since they were already so suspicious, would n''t they launch the bomb_ before_ seven o''clock? |
32706 | But that does n''t make sense-- what does it mean?" |
32706 | But the Second thinks not-- what do you think, Costigan?" |
32706 | But to what end? |
32706 | But we''ve got you all fixed up, so take it easy and....""What we want to know is,"his partner interrupted,"Is there anybody else alive up here?" |
32706 | But what are we-- you-- going to do?" |
32706 | But what shall I do with this iron? |
32706 | But what should I have done, knowing that there is no practical defense against the atomic bomb? |
32706 | But what the hell goes on here? |
32706 | But what''s he like, personally? |
32706 | But what''s the matter with you? |
32706 | But... what if, after all, we should be wrong?" |
32706 | By air? |
32706 | CHAPTER 6 19--? |
32706 | Ca n''t you see that it''s impossible?" |
32706 | Can do?" |
32706 | Can you drill it? |
32706 | Can you let me play with that much juice for a while? |
32706 | Can you take a minute and throw him out?" |
32706 | Can you talk, or is he there listening?" |
32706 | Check?" |
32706 | Costigan?" |
32706 | Could both of us make it, do you suppose?" |
32706 | Cover me up as much as you can, will you?" |
32706 | Did he... hurt you, after all?" |
32706 | Didn''cha ever hear of''Hellandamnation''Slayton? |
32706 | Do I get it? |
32706 | Do we attack or do we run away?" |
32706 | Do we try or do we stay here?" |
32706 | Do you know?" |
32706 | Do you really think that they''ll want you back, after the war?" |
32706 | Do you see any place where I could hide even one?" |
32706 | Do you still believe that you can keep me from remembering whatever it was that my ancestor was compelled to forget?" |
32706 | Do you, Cleve?" |
32706 | Fighting_ Thracian_, against a_ Samnite_?" |
32706 | For the rest it is simply what you call''the fortune of war,''no?" |
32706 | Get Fairchild, please... Dick? |
32706 | Got it?" |
32706 | Got me?" |
32706 | Has this...?" |
32706 | Have any of you others any valid objections to the establishment of our empire here in this space? |
32706 | Have n''t got a spare planet on hand, have you?" |
32706 | Have you any information to the contrary?" |
32706 | Have you any suggestions?" |
32706 | Have you got that Pittsburgh beam for me yet? |
32706 | Have you, by any chance, some trace of hope of success?" |
32706 | Hellanddamnation, why have n''t you got it with you, then? |
32706 | Hop to it, will you, Blake, so that we''ll have it in case they are able to stop the cans?" |
32706 | How about it-- can the others install similar sets on their ships? |
32706 | How about it? |
32706 | How about that new flyer of yours-- got anything that will do us any good?" |
32706 | How about your take- off? |
32706 | How come? |
32706 | How come?" |
32706 | How did you make out, and what was it?" |
32706 | How do you do it?" |
32706 | How do you feel-- about back to normal?" |
32706 | How many men you got, and what are they?" |
32706 | How much time have we got yet?" |
32706 | How? |
32706 | However, I take it that you have this Rome situation entirely under control?" |
32706 | I do n''t suppose that you ever fired a Standish, did you?" |
32706 | I let you go when you were really in danger....""What do you mean by_ that_ crack?" |
32706 | I take it that neither of you has anything new to contribute to this symposium?" |
32706 | I''m looking at you now-- feel it?" |
32706 | I''m trying to think... maybe... say, Captain, will you please have the Chief Electrician and a couple of radio men come in here?" |
32706 | I''m with you, but what can we do?" |
32706 | If it should-- if I do n''t get back-- will you see that my wife and the baby are...?" |
32706 | If we stop them... how long? |
32706 | In solid? |
32706 | In the name of Bacchus, Patroclus, why do the men go there now? |
32706 | Is he...?" |
32706 | Is the old bird nuts, or what?" |
32706 | Is there any chance, however slight, that either of us will ever know them again; or learn even whether they live or die? |
32706 | It ca n''t, can it?" |
32706 | Keep on going or stop?" |
32706 | Krongenes, what are your findings in regard to the planetary possibilities of other spaces?" |
32706 | Land my ship?" |
32706 | Let''s see what''s going on, shall we?" |
32706 | Light? |
32706 | Masters? |
32706 | Nevertheless:"You refuse to cooperate, eh?" |
32706 | No need of asking how_ you_ feel, is there?" |
32706 | No... how would''free''be?" |
32706 | Now what?" |
32706 | Now, Fletcher, did you see that fake meteor yourself? |
32706 | Now, Harry, what do you think? |
32706 | O.K.?" |
32706 | O.K.?" |
32706 | Of course the Council refused to allow us any of the national supply-- how much were you able to purchase for us in the market?" |
32706 | Of course you could n''t get in touch with anybody yet?" |
32706 | Of interest no end, do n''t you think, to the dear people of North America?" |
32706 | Of_ my_ orders?" |
32706 | On the other hand, what happens if we stay here? |
32706 | Or not? |
32706 | Or rather, what happened to him?" |
32706 | Or was it? |
32706 | Or-- could he? |
32706 | Our masters die first, then and there... but hold-- weapons?" |
32706 | Perhaps you are curious to know why?" |
32706 | ROME"But what have you, Livius, or any of us, for that matter, got to live for?" |
32706 | Rate_ me_? |
32706 | Ready, Cleve?" |
32706 | Ready? |
32706 | Remember what you said once, when you advised me to''let you lay,''or whatever it was?" |
32706 | Right?" |
32706 | Right?" |
32706 | See that black panel, a little below the cord- switch to the right of your door? |
32706 | See there? |
32706 | See this? |
32706 | Sergeant, what''s your name?" |
32706 | Serve you? |
32706 | Shall I give him a little pull?" |
32706 | Shall I put him on now?" |
32706 | Shall I send it in?" |
32706 | Shall they come to trial or not?" |
32706 | Should I have tried to keep Atlantis toothless in a world bristling with fangs? |
32706 | Should he flash back to Eddore, or should he wait and take the planetoid, with its highly varied and extremely valuable contents? |
32706 | Should he let the Thracian kill the Commander of his Guard? |
32706 | Should he stay with the planetoid to its end, and thus perforce return to Eddore with no material evidence whatever? |
32706 | Should there be some?" |
32706 | Shunt in a potentiometer?" |
32706 | So what? |
32706 | So_ that''s_ the super- ship, huh? |
32706 | Something special?" |
32706 | Spud? |
32706 | Thanks-- but the others-- how about all the rest of us?" |
32706 | That covers the situation, I think?_""_ Very good, Eukonidor,"the Elders approved. |
32706 | That the Triplanetary Service is responsible only to the Triplanetary Council?" |
32706 | That those weird contortions of their peculiarly placed organs serve as speech?" |
32706 | The heavy goggles, the wrist- watch and its supplementary pocket chronometer, the flash- lamp, the automatic lighter, the sender, the money- belt? |
32706 | The joker being, of course, that you did n''t see how you could steal a ship?" |
32706 | There''s something we want to know right away-- have we been gone four hours and some odd minutes, or better than two years?" |
32706 | They can not talk, and have made no signs of having heard our words to them-- do you suppose that they communicate by sight? |
32706 | Thick- skinned, of course-- got a brain?" |
32706 | Think you can do it?" |
32706 | Think you can stall him off and keep him interested for about fifteen minutes?" |
32706 | This organization, this haste, this split- second timing, this city- wide exhibition of insane hippodrome riding? |
32706 | Through the woods on foot? |
32706 | To this they agreed, and thus it came about that one day the following conversation was held:"Clio? |
32706 | Touch it?" |
32706 | Tugwell hung up and:"But do you want_ him_ here, Doc?" |
32706 | Want to try to get through?" |
32706 | Was afraid you were gone-- that was one of your bombs, was n''t it?" |
32706 | We ca n''t launch you again-- the tracks are gone-- but you handled her easily enough coming in?" |
32706 | We expect no return whatever, but if you_ should_ by some miracle happen to succeed, what then? |
32706 | Were they recent arrivals from some other space- time continuum? |
32706 | What are you talking about? |
32706 | What can I do best?" |
32706 | What chance do you think there is of ever getting any real proof?" |
32706 | What chance has an animal of escaping from a menagerie?" |
32706 | What do you mean?" |
32706 | What do you wish to do about this situation?" |
32706 | What else could he do?" |
32706 | What happened?" |
32706 | What is that name?" |
32706 | What outfit is this, and where are we?" |
32706 | What then? |
32706 | What was the real meaning of those facts? |
32706 | What went wrong?" |
32706 | What would you do, Doctor, if you were doing it?" |
32706 | What would you? |
32706 | What''s the score? |
32706 | What, then? |
32706 | When did you eat last?" |
32706 | When he was talking to you you must have noticed a sort of rough, sandpapery feeling under that necklace I gave you? |
32706 | When--_when_--are you going to get your feet planted?" |
32706 | Where are the Nevians? |
32706 | Where are we, anyway? |
32706 | Where are you?" |
32706 | Where''s Kolanides? |
32706 | Who are you, stranger, to dare to intrude thus upon a conference of the Innermost Circle?" |
32706 | Who cares about that? |
32706 | Who cares? |
32706 | Who else in the three worlds could possibly call him''Sammy?'' |
32706 | Who or what was activating them? |
32706 | Who would be next? |
32706 | Whom do you accuse?" |
32706 | Why not?" |
32706 | Why not?" |
32706 | Why should I get the credit for what they do?" |
32706 | Why take a chance? |
32706 | Why was all this necessary? |
32706 | Why was it not complete? |
32706 | Why were not all these motorcycle- racers stationed permanently at their posts, so as to be ready for any emergency? |
32706 | Why? |
32706 | Why? |
32706 | Why?" |
32706 | Will you release your screens and come aboard to sign a treaty?" |
32706 | With the last difficulties overcome, you are now ready to start?" |
32706 | Would n''t he please behave himself and eat, as a reasoning being should? |
32706 | Would you like to come along?" |
32706 | You are of course sure of your facts, Artomenes?" |
32706 | You have given the new orders, of course?" |
32706 | You have undoubtedly noticed several peculiar features of this place?" |
32706 | You know how to kill a robot, do n''t you?" |
32706 | You know that you can talk to me, do n''t you?" |
32706 | You know, I could really like that fish if I could meet him on terms of equality sometime?" |
32706 | You mean, then, that...?" |
32706 | You saw them boots without any hobnails in''em, sticking out from under some blankets?" |
32706 | You think maybe that we''re two years older now than we were ten minutes ago? |
32706 | You want to know all I know about Roger?" |
32706 | You''ll be ready to transfer?" |
32706 | You''ve got a harpoon, of course?" |
32706 | Your recommendations, please?" |
32706 | _ One_ Triplanetary ship against_ us_?" |
32706 | _ Run_?" |
32706 | always?" |
32706 | with you,"he concluded,"for me to get myself fired off of this high- salaried job of mine?" |
21051 | ''Smatter? 21051 ''Smatter? |
21051 | ''Smatter? |
21051 | A difficulty? |
21051 | All set, Dick? |
21051 | All set, then, Rovol? |
21051 | And a tenth of an inch of that stuff will stop a steel- nosed machine- gun bullet? |
21051 | And he did n''t accept? |
21051 | Are n''t you going to put a ray on''em? |
21051 | Are these ultra- rays, then, of such a dangerous character? |
21051 | Are they sending them? |
21051 | Are we safe, even now-- what of possible pursuit? |
21051 | Are you generating? |
21051 | Are you going to connect the power plant to operate on the entire vessel and all its contents? |
21051 | Better dodge that spot, had n''t we, ace? 21051 But how about libraries, apparatus and equipment? |
21051 | But how could such material possibly be formed? |
21051 | But suppose that your son''s wife is n''t that kind of an artist? 21051 But suppose they fight back too hard?" |
21051 | But suppose they want to kill us off at sight? |
21051 | But surely they''ll stop, some time? |
21051 | But what can we_ do_ about it? |
21051 | By the distance? 21051 Can the two of us put on those copper repeller- bands? |
21051 | Can you direct them? |
21051 | Close? |
21051 | Danger out there? 21051 Dare you speak thus to me, your sovereign?" |
21051 | Dick, will you need me on this trip? |
21051 | Did n''t you get that on the educator? 21051 Did you solve the puzzle, Dickie?" |
21051 | Did you succeed in the transfer? |
21051 | Do n''t they ever jam? |
21051 | Do n''t you want to know where we''re going, and why? |
21051 | Do n''t_ dare_ to? 21051 Do you know yet when you are coming back?" |
21051 | Do you live that long? 21051 Do you mean to say that you think_ fish_ live here instead of people, and that_ fish_ did all this?" |
21051 | Do you mind if I ask how you got that dope? |
21051 | Do you remember, Dick, that I hailed you once as Columbus at San Salvador? |
21051 | Do you suppose it is out of order, after all? |
21051 | Do you suppose they will fight, anyway? |
21051 | Do you think he should be allowed to run at large, Martin? |
21051 | Do you think so? |
21051 | Do you think this is altogether safe, Dick? |
21051 | Do you want to know where we are? |
21051 | Dot, what is that zone of force, anyway? |
21051 | Dottie? 21051 Fair enough-- why not?" |
21051 | Go back home, of course, stupe,put in Dorothy,"do you have to be told every little thing?" |
21051 | Going to take it lying down, without putting up any fight at all? |
21051 | Got both your screens out? |
21051 | Got it done and can I see it? |
21051 | Got you? 21051 Guess that''s our sun, over to the left, ai n''t it, Mart?" |
21051 | Guiding it, eh? |
21051 | Had n''t you suspected that some of the Fenachrone might be going to lead us a life- long chase? |
21051 | Have n''t I always told you he had cat blood in him, Peggy? 21051 Have you any immediate suggestions?" |
21051 | Have you figured us all out already, from a standing start? |
21051 | Have you got it on the infra- red? |
21051 | Hi, Dottie, what''s on your mind? |
21051 | Hm- m- m. Never thought about it from that angle at all, Mart.... You''re still the ground- and- lofty thinker of the outfit, ai n''t you? 21051 How about cooling it off? |
21051 | How about it, Dot? 21051 How about the air composition, density, gravity, temperature, and so on?" |
21051 | How about the ray- screens? |
21051 | How about you two girls-- anything you want to learn in a hurry? |
21051 | How are you going about this, Dick? |
21051 | How can a thing like that possibly work as it does? |
21051 | How can our foundations stand it? |
21051 | How can their rays be any hotter than ours, Dick? |
21051 | How can we get this salt to Osnome? |
21051 | How come you lasted till now, then? |
21051 | How come? |
21051 | How come? |
21051 | How did they get to it? |
21051 | How did you get them far enough out? |
21051 | How do you arrive at that conclusion, Doctor? 21051 How do you do it, Orlon?" |
21051 | How do you get that velocity of flow, Carfon? |
21051 | How do you know these things? |
21051 | How do you know they are using copper? |
21051 | How do you know? |
21051 | How do you obtain your power? |
21051 | How does that help matters? |
21051 | How far are we apt to have to go? |
21051 | How is your supply of platinum? |
21051 | How long will it take us to catch''em? |
21051 | How long will it take you to build it? |
21051 | How long will it take you to get ready to leave? 21051 How many families are working on rays-- just one?" |
21051 | How much did you take, anyway? |
21051 | How''re you going to get it into my thick skull-- with an educator? |
21051 | How''s every little thing, Mart? |
21051 | How''s tricks, Mart? 21051 How? |
21051 | How? |
21051 | How? |
21051 | How? |
21051 | However, Dick, while everything at the works is so fine, when is this other thing going to break? |
21051 | I do n''t suppose that Seven is far away, is he? |
21051 | I get most of the stuff you''ve pulled so far, but why such a light? |
21051 | I get you-- but say, how about disposing of it when we get the thing in a ship out in space? 21051 I hope you are n''t planning on exploring it, just to prove your point?" |
21051 | I wonder what they are going to do out here, this kind of weather? |
21051 | If I refuse? |
21051 | If all you did was to set up the integrals, how do you know what you are going to have for the next meal? |
21051 | If the Cranes and Shiro were n''t along, we''d be really''alone at last,''would n''t we? |
21051 | If we''re going down to the ground, how about Sitar? |
21051 | If you like it so well, would n''t you rather I''d play you something I had n''t played before? |
21051 | In return for our armament and equipment, you promise not to warn the green system against us? 21051 Is n''t it going to be a long, slow job, chopping off two tons of that metal and fighting away those terrible animals besides?" |
21051 | Is n''t it wonderful, lover,she murmured,"to be out here in space this way, together, away from all our troubles and worries? |
21051 | Is their brain really as far ahead of ours as I gathered from what I saw of it? |
21051 | Is this radiation harmful? |
21051 | It is your opinion, then, that destroying this last Fenachrone vessel is to prove as simple a matter as did the destruction of the others? |
21051 | Just about like home, but I do n''t see much of any place to land without getting wet, do you? 21051 Just as the higher- powered a radio set is, the more perfect must be its shielding?" |
21051 | Just how will Rovolon help you? |
21051 | Left out? 21051 Mart, did you see what I saw, or did I get tight on something without knowing it? |
21051 | May I venture a suggestion? |
21051 | Mother? 21051 Mow deep are we, Mart?" |
21051 | Neither your rocket- ships nor your projections could get you any Rovolon? |
21051 | Neutronium? 21051 No, daughter, why should we fear the Change?" |
21051 | Nope-- what''s the use? 21051 Not started? |
21051 | Now that you''ve got it, what are you going to do with it? |
21051 | Now what to do? |
21051 | Or else what? |
21051 | Osnome is so far away-- how are you going to find it? |
21051 | Our astronomers are all wet in their guesses, then? |
21051 | Our science is-- must be-- superior to any other in the Universe? |
21051 | Pardon my curiosity, Orlon, but would you mind explaining the why of that moving wall? 21051 Pardon my curiosity, but why''Seven''?" |
21051 | Please, sirs, may I ride, just a little short ride, in your vessel before you go away? |
21051 | Pretty slow? |
21051 | Ready? |
21051 | Remember that planet we struck on the first trip, that had an atmosphere composed mostly of gaseous chlorin? 21051 Say, what are you anyway?" |
21051 | See it yet, Dunark? |
21051 | Shall one of us get in the airlock, or shall we bring it in with an attractor? |
21051 | She''s just too perfectly kippy for words, sitting up there, is n''t she? |
21051 | Sir, are you the Overlord of Osnome, of whom we have heard? 21051 Sleepy, cuddle- pup?" |
21051 | So you have taken a captive? |
21051 | Solar generators and tide motors? 21051 Still squeamish, eh? |
21051 | Still talking about the human fish, Dottie Dimple? |
21051 | Such vermin as those two whom one of our smallest scouts captured without a battle, vessel and all? 21051 Suppose they find our one band, narrow as it is? |
21051 | Surely you are not suggesting that we run all night with no one at the controls? |
21051 | Synthetic, eh? 21051 Take number six visiplate, will you, Mart? |
21051 | That may be so, too,Dorothy replied, unconcernedly,"but we are n''t planning on living there, so why worry about it? |
21051 | That object compass? |
21051 | That was a funny sensation, was n''t it? 21051 The Fenachrone learned to direct fifth- order rays so quickly, then, by an analysis of our fifth- order projector there?" |
21051 | The Osnomians are now building vessels such as this one? |
21051 | Then how can you make a lens of it? 21051 Then they''ll go alone, wo n''t they, Peggy?" |
21051 | Then why are your brains so large? |
21051 | They might be able to do it, might n''t they? |
21051 | They''re an awful long ways off yet, are n''t they? 21051 Think anybody will find those ships? |
21051 | Upon such a tenuous fabric of evidence would you have such a people as ours turn tail like beaten hounds? 21051 Want to learn Japanese while we''re at it, Mart? |
21051 | Well, wonder how far I missed it on my first shot? |
21051 | Were you broadcasting it? 21051 What are you doing? |
21051 | What are you going to do with him? |
21051 | What are you going to do? |
21051 | What are you letting that precious husband of mine do now, Martin? 21051 What are you looking for, exactly?" |
21051 | What are your requirements? |
21051 | What can that be, anyway, Dick? |
21051 | What can we do? 21051 What can you have to say to me?" |
21051 | What d''you make of it, Mart? 21051 What d''you mean''if the next conjunction is_ allowed_ to occur?''" |
21051 | What do you intend to do? |
21051 | What do you know that you feel like passing around? |
21051 | What do you make of it, Dick? |
21051 | What do you suppose it is? 21051 What do you think you''re going to do in that thing, Dickie?" |
21051 | What does the father do then? |
21051 | What is that arenak armor they''re wearing? |
21051 | What is your decision? |
21051 | What next, Dick? |
21051 | What problem? |
21051 | What say we hop in and give the baby a ride over to the Area of Experiment? 21051 What special instructions do we need to run it, if any?" |
21051 | What was the smoke we saw, then? |
21051 | What was what? 21051 What would have?" |
21051 | What''s the capacity of the system? |
21051 | What_ are_ you two saying? |
21051 | When will you get that new compass- case exhausted to a skillionth of a whillimeter or something, whatever it is? 21051 Where''ll we land this junk, Dunark?" |
21051 | While you build a Fenachrone super- generator? |
21051 | Why did not you say those things first, Overlord? |
21051 | Why do n''t you play us some real music, Dottie? |
21051 | Why do n''t you use some of those awful copper shells? 21051 Why not do it all at once?" |
21051 | Why not send a copper torpedo to destroy their entire planet? |
21051 | Why not? 21051 Why red?" |
21051 | Why the let- up? |
21051 | Why, and why not? 21051 Why? |
21051 | Will you please loan me your sending instrument, sir? |
21051 | With all the other feats of skill and sorcery you have accomplished, why do n''t you reconstruct their speech, also? |
21051 | Wonder how long the battle lasted? |
21051 | Wonder how many ships they''ve got out, anyway? 21051 Would n''t it be easier to destroy it with an explosive copper bomb?" |
21051 | Would n''t that break you off at the ankles, Mart? 21051 Would n''t we gain more by killing him and going back to Seaton and the green system, as you suggested?" |
21051 | Would you be willing to seek an immediate audience with him? 21051 Would you, the Overlord of Osnome, reveal such secrets as this to the arch- enemies of Osnome?" |
21051 | Yeah? 21051 Yes, and whoever heard of a sea- going ship without a small boat?" |
21051 | Yes-- would you like to see her? 21051 You are n''t going to build the final projector here, then?" |
21051 | You can not put everything out, can you? |
21051 | You do n''t have to drive her as hard all the way, then, as you did last night? |
21051 | You do not care to inform me more fully as to your destination or your plans? |
21051 | You have a family, then? |
21051 | You have a little girl, too? |
21051 | You have call, sir? |
21051 | You have n''t tested the theory of the fourth order yet, have you? |
21051 | You intend starting open war upon your return? |
21051 | You must all be blind, I guess-- you no hear the bell blow, what? 21051 You will admit, will you not, that we can see our way out of the woods, at least, and that you yourself feel rather relieved?" |
21051 | You''re a....began Dorothy hotly, but broke off in amazement and gasped,"For Heaven''s sake, what was that?" |
21051 | You''re heading directly at that largest, oldest, and most intelligent planet, then, I take it, where I can catch me my physicist? |
21051 | _ Sixth_? 21051 All right, Orlon, it''s your party-- what to do? |
21051 | All right, gang? |
21051 | All set?" |
21051 | Am I right?" |
21051 | Am I to understand that the situation is really grave?" |
21051 | And dark? |
21051 | And even their gravitation has modified their structure a lot-- suppose it had been fifty times as great as it is? |
21051 | And what good could a mechanical educator do you if the men were all dead?" |
21051 | And yet, if they had known about it for a long time, would n''t they be able to get through it? |
21051 | Any little thing you want to talk over?" |
21051 | Any other ideas, fellows?" |
21051 | Any other suggestions?... |
21051 | Any suggestions? |
21051 | Anybody else know of any other loop- holes I''ve left open?" |
21051 | Anyway, I_ must_ stand it, so why worry about it?" |
21051 | Are n''t you afraid of getting pinched?" |
21051 | Are you going to plate a fleet of battle cruisers?" |
21051 | Are you going with us?" |
21051 | As an astronomer, you may be interested in this star- chart and stuff-- or do you know all about that already?" |
21051 | As for Fenachrone toothlessness: now that you have considered it, what is your opinion?" |
21051 | At what time will their vigilance be at lowest ebb? |
21051 | Beats the band, does n''t it, that neither Rovol nor I, who should have thought of it first, ever did see anything as plain as that? |
21051 | Better close up?" |
21051 | Better take turns watching it, had n''t we?" |
21051 | But how can we see anything there? |
21051 | But how do I get to planet Six? |
21051 | But say, Mart, how come I''m as wild and cock- eyed as I ever was? |
21051 | But say, Mart, if that planet is so old that all their land area has been eroded away, how come they''ve got so much water left? |
21051 | But say, it''s been half an hour since war was declared-- suppose we''re too late? |
21051 | But to cut out the lecture, what''s on your mind, Dottie Dimple?" |
21051 | But we''re doing it, ai n''t we? |
21051 | But what I want to know is, how''d you get here? |
21051 | But what is a year, more or less? |
21051 | But you probably have a plan of campaign already laid out?" |
21051 | But you''ve formed a theory-- what is it, Drasnik?" |
21051 | CHAPTER VIII The Porpoise- Men of Dasor"How long do you figure it''s going to take us to get there, Mart?" |
21051 | CHAPTER XII Flying Visits-- Via Projection"Well, what to do?" |
21051 | Can I learn anything more, or did you fill me up to capacity?" |
21051 | Can those ray- screens be made sufficiently powerful to withstand the beam they employed last, even for a second?" |
21051 | Can you see any of them?" |
21051 | Did n''t you throw out your zone of force?" |
21051 | Did you ever conceive the possibility of such a thing? |
21051 | Did you yourself direct the preparation of these meats and vegetables?" |
21051 | Do n''t you think it''s a safe bet that this bird reported back to his headquarters?" |
21051 | Do you mind if I ask a few foolish questions, to get things straightened out in my mind?" |
21051 | Does n''t that mean that we are beaten?" |
21051 | Does that sound reasonable?" |
21051 | Dunark, can you spare a crew to build us a duplicate of that Fenachrone ship, besides those you are going to build for yourself?" |
21051 | Dunark, what say you snap over there and smelt us a cubic mile of uranium? |
21051 | Especially do n''t do it if he''d talk the way you do-- or could you teach him to talk the way you write?" |
21051 | Everything clear? |
21051 | Finally, if they did ram us, what would happen? |
21051 | For my next point, are we justified in assuming that they do or do not know about the zone of force?" |
21051 | Further, I wonder if Dr. Smith considered the proposition of his ammonia cooling plant carefully? |
21051 | Get as much of it as you can, will you?" |
21051 | Get it, Mart?" |
21051 | Get me?" |
21051 | Got it?" |
21051 | Got your range?" |
21051 | Have n''t you and Martin just been admitting to each other that you ca n''t do anything? |
21051 | Have n''t you got that knowledge all packed away in your skull yet?" |
21051 | Have you forces at your command sufficient to frustrate this plan?" |
21051 | Have you found the answer to the problem?" |
21051 | Home would n''t quite be home without our old_ Skylark_, would it, Martin?" |
21051 | How about it, Mart, do n''t we want something really up- to- date if we''re going to keep on space- hopping?" |
21051 | How about it, Mart? |
21051 | How about it?" |
21051 | How about the fifth order-- is that as far as they go?" |
21051 | How about waiting until they disable another one like that, and then grabbing it while its in the air, deserted and unable to fight back? |
21051 | How about you, Carfon? |
21051 | How big a lens did you make, anyway? |
21051 | How big would an island have to be for us to see it from here?" |
21051 | How can you do all that from our end?" |
21051 | How could you?" |
21051 | How could you?" |
21051 | How did he report our Earth on that torpedo? |
21051 | How do you account for that?" |
21051 | How do you get that way? |
21051 | How does he get that way?" |
21051 | How does that sound?" |
21051 | How far away are they?" |
21051 | How is your work progressing?" |
21051 | How long will it take to finish it, and what will it be like when it is done?" |
21051 | How long''s it going to take us to get there?" |
21051 | How soon will you require this mechanism?" |
21051 | How''d it be for you to navigate us over to the third planet of the fourteenth sun?" |
21051 | How''d it be, Rovol, for me to practice with this outfit while you are finishing up the odds and ends you want to clean up? |
21051 | How''d that be, Mart?" |
21051 | How''d you like to learn to talk English like Crane there does-- without taking lessons?" |
21051 | How''re you coming, Dunark? |
21051 | How''re you making it, Peg?" |
21051 | However, after we get this Fenachrone mess cleaned up we''ll have to do just that little thing, wo n''t we, Mart? |
21051 | I am told that they are not ether waves at all?" |
21051 | I assume that it, like so many other things hereabouts, is riding on the end of a rod of force?" |
21051 | I bite, what would he do?" |
21051 | I could n''t sleep now, lover-- could you?" |
21051 | I hear you''re quite an astronomer?" |
21051 | I thought Dunark said it took five hundred hours of pumping to get it where he wanted it?" |
21051 | I thought you blew it up for me, Dick?" |
21051 | I wonder how Dr. Smith solved the problem of three-- or more-- bodies? |
21051 | If he wants to go that far away from home, where is his logical destination? |
21051 | If so, why put them on guard?" |
21051 | In what respects is their science even comparable to ours?" |
21051 | Is n''t that true?" |
21051 | Is the idea conceivable to a sane mind, or not?" |
21051 | It shall be so built-- but of what use will it be?" |
21051 | Let''s see-- where would that be from our course?" |
21051 | Line him up in the big one and give me the word, will you?" |
21051 | Mart, how do we vote on this?" |
21051 | Mart?" |
21051 | Might n''t it be generating interfering fourth- order frequencies?" |
21051 | Must your projector tube be longer than that, for correct design?" |
21051 | Need a light?" |
21051 | Not quite as thrilling as the first one was, is it?" |
21051 | Notice their skins? |
21051 | Now if our acceleration is the same as theirs, and they have a month''s start, how long will it take us to catch them?" |
21051 | Of course, if that were shut off automatically by the detector, we''d be safe; but would we not be out of control?" |
21051 | Of what use can such a substance be to you?" |
21051 | Only one way out of it, I guess-- what say we put in enough generators to smother them down by brute force, no matter how much power it takes?" |
21051 | Only three bodies on a warship? |
21051 | Or are n''t we close enough yet?" |
21051 | Osnome is a planet of a sun in a group of seventeen suns, is it not? |
21051 | Peggy?" |
21051 | Planet number three of sun six four something Pilarone, was n''t it? |
21051 | Pure mass?" |
21051 | Ready to attack?" |
21051 | Reasonable?" |
21051 | Relieved? |
21051 | Remember the explosion in our laboratory, that blew an entire mountain into impalpable dust? |
21051 | Remember those wrecked instruments you threw out of_ Skylark I_ when we built_ Skylark II_?" |
21051 | Remember? |
21051 | Right? |
21051 | Right?" |
21051 | Right?" |
21051 | Right?" |
21051 | Seaton?" |
21051 | See anything yet?" |
21051 | See anything, Mart?" |
21051 | See anything, any of you?" |
21051 | See where we''re going, will you?" |
21051 | See?" |
21051 | See?" |
21051 | Shall I explain the orders of rays more fully than I did by means of the educator?" |
21051 | Shall we do it as we did before?" |
21051 | Should we increase it?" |
21051 | Something gone screwy?" |
21051 | Suppose I had had all twenty of them on instead of only three?" |
21051 | Suppose she should want to do music or painting or something else?" |
21051 | Suppose that it should prove impenetrable also to gravitation and to magnetism? |
21051 | Suppose that we do not live long enough to perfect that knowledge? |
21051 | Suppose that you can figure out exactly where he comes from with this dope and with his brain record?" |
21051 | Suppose they can crack it? |
21051 | Suppose they know all about that zone of force? |
21051 | Suppose they ram us?" |
21051 | Suppose your armor cracked or something? |
21051 | Take it easy, what are your plans?" |
21051 | Thanks, fellows, a million times-- but say, did you leave any open spaces for more? |
21051 | That seems like a backward move to me, but what other answer is possible?" |
21051 | That so, chief?" |
21051 | That those things are following a ray?" |
21051 | That would be in English... Seeing- plate? |
21051 | The astronomical error? |
21051 | The death of your enemy takes first place in your mind?" |
21051 | Then what will they do? |
21051 | Then what? |
21051 | There, is n''t she trying to quit it?" |
21051 | They are also highly treacherous and merciless....""Why?" |
21051 | Think you can find it?" |
21051 | This new one of ours is such a sweet, harmless, inoffensive little thing, we''d better name her the_ Violet_, had n''t we?" |
21051 | This trip is to get a little something for ourselves, I take it?" |
21051 | Thought I''d forgotten all the astronomy you ever taught me, did n''t you? |
21051 | To begin with, I suppose that you are curious about that object- compass?" |
21051 | Turning to Rovol, he went on:"I understand that you require a particularly precise directional mechanism? |
21051 | Upon what point are you doubtful?" |
21051 | Us? |
21051 | Want to see some of your little friends again? |
21051 | Want to take a look?" |
21051 | Well, Mart, what say we drag that guy in and give him the once- over?" |
21051 | Well, how about this, then? |
21051 | Well, how about turning up a few R. P. M.? |
21051 | Well, until we get there, what to do? |
21051 | What about those instruments?" |
21051 | What are the improvements you added to the original design?" |
21051 | What can happen? |
21051 | What can we do about it? |
21051 | What constellation would you like? |
21051 | What do you call''em, Dunark?" |
21051 | What do you make of it?" |
21051 | What do you mean? |
21051 | What do you think Dunark is up against? |
21051 | What do you think of the idea?" |
21051 | What happens?" |
21051 | What is it, anyway?" |
21051 | What next?" |
21051 | What say we go over and look at the stars?" |
21051 | What say we let_ Skylark Two_ drift by herself for a while, and catch us some of Nature''s sweet restorer?" |
21051 | What say you girls get your fiddle and guitar and we''ll sing us a little song? |
21051 | What to do, Mart?" |
21051 | What to do? |
21051 | What would he do?" |
21051 | What would they have been like? |
21051 | What''ll we give him first?" |
21051 | What''s my force number on the next nearest one, Mart?" |
21051 | What''s the use?" |
21051 | What''s your idea?" |
21051 | Which nation do you want saved? |
21051 | Whither away, Rovol-- any choice?" |
21051 | Whither away? |
21051 | Why attempt to do more than can be accomplished efficiently? |
21051 | Why do n''t you teach it to us? |
21051 | Why not hurry up and catch them?" |
21051 | Why not? |
21051 | Why prate of"the impossible"? |
21051 | Why should n''t they be? |
21051 | Why worry about plans? |
21051 | Why would n''t it be a sound idea to flash it into inoson when it gets here?" |
21051 | Why? |
21051 | Wonder if it can be the strangers already? |
21051 | Wonder if somebody''s there ahead of us? |
21051 | Wonder if they''re peaceable or warlike?" |
21051 | Wonder what they think when they shoot at us and we do n''t drop? |
21051 | Would a highly civilized people revert to fish? |
21051 | Would an extension of the methods of detection of fifth- order rays reveal them?" |
21051 | Would n''t the late Perkins''plan of an abduction, such as I have in mind, be better, safer and quicker?" |
21051 | Would they kill them all, Dick? |
21051 | Would we feel the shock? |
21051 | Would we ourselves reveal unnecessarily to an enemy the possession of such rays? |
21051 | Yell for the girls, will you? |
21051 | You ai n''t figuring on taking anybody but Shiro along, are you?" |
21051 | You are one of the higher- ups now, anyway: and we understand each other thoroughly, I believe?" |
21051 | You have guessed that we are headed for Osnome?" |
21051 | You have only the one compass upon that planet?" |
21051 | You know how the attractors and repellers work? |
21051 | You know that I hold the honor of Fenachrone dear, and that all my plans are for the ultimate triumph of our race?" |
21051 | You know that I''m handy with a gun myself?" |
21051 | You know that needle on DuQuesne has n''t been working for quite a while? |
21051 | You know what they''re up to?" |
21051 | You perfected all these things since we left Osnome, Dunark? |
21051 | You remember a sort of flash-- a sensation of seeing something-- when the educator worked on you? |
21051 | You?" |
21051 | You?" |
21051 | asked Seaton as he and Rovol entered the laboratory,"Tear down this fourth- order projector and tackle the big job? |
21051 | protested Seaton,"You''ve got it about done, have n''t you?" |
21051 | |acceleration?" |
21051 | || acceleration? |
49525 | ''Why should we?'' 49525 ... and who_ are_ these Lensmen, anyway?" |
49525 | A drink? |
49525 | A lot of road, eh? |
49525 | A mutant? 49525 A small, cold one?" |
49525 | After all, perfectly nice people do meet informally on shipboard; why not in concourses? |
49525 | After you get it made, what are you going to do with it in case nothing happens? |
49525 | Against anything the Galactic Patrol can swing? |
49525 | Ai n''t you getting tired of sticking around here, George? |
49525 | Alex? |
49525 | Allotropic iron, U-235, or plutonium? |
49525 | And I suppose you want me to blast back to Tellus? |
49525 | And have you, by any chance, been paying any attention to what I have been telling you? |
49525 | And in the case of Spaceways, not normal? |
49525 | And is there anything cheerful about that? |
49525 | And just what do you think you''re going to do with me? |
49525 | And murders? 49525 And now, I wonder what that daughter of mine is doing? |
49525 | And the rest of you...? 49525 And then?" |
49525 | And what have they got that makes them so tough? |
49525 | And what have you deduced? |
49525 | And what would you name it? 49525 And what would you think might be in that package? |
49525 | And you and Dronvire are sitting idly by, doing nothing, of course? |
49525 | Anything in their hand- bags, Mase? |
49525 | Are n''t you even going to kiss mama goodbye, baby boy? |
49525 | Are them the plants we''re going to get, boss? |
49525 | Are you innocent enough to think you''ll get out of this building alive if I do n''t accept you? |
49525 | Are you or have you been, reading my mind? |
49525 | Are you photographing this, Lance? |
49525 | Are you sure there''s air-- and they''ll pick us up? 49525 Are you_ sure_ you''re all right, Samms?" |
49525 | Atmospheric vibrations? 49525 Back so soon? |
49525 | Boskone? 49525 But ca n''t they be screened out?" |
49525 | But enough of me-- how are you doing? |
49525 | But surely they can not be of any use? |
49525 | But what makes you think Herkimer here never took one of the same? |
49525 | But when I die, will it be a perpetual menace? |
49525 | But who are you going to send first, Virge? |
49525 | But why now? 49525 But would n''t the very fact of such rigid restrictions operate against morale? |
49525 | But you have nothing concrete to go on, I take it? |
49525 | But... no reprisals? |
49525 | Buy me a drink, mister? 49525 Ca n''t believe that any woman_ can_ be Herkimer- proof, eh? |
49525 | Can they match that or not? |
49525 | Can you talk now? |
49525 | Can_ you_ talk sense, Mase? 49525 Captain Willoughby?" |
49525 | Clio? |
49525 | Coming with us, Rod? |
49525 | Count_ her_ out, with all the stuff she''s got? 49525 Cuddly and baby- talkish? |
49525 | Democracy? 49525 Deny it? |
49525 | Dexitroboping has to do with... nourishment? 49525 Did I act as though I thought it was? |
49525 | Did any of you-- Costigan?--see any signs of a concerted rush, such as there would have been to get the killer away if we had n''t interfered? |
49525 | Did n''t I? 49525 Did n''t he add''and_ stay_ scrammed''?" |
49525 | Did that signal, by any chance, originate anywhere near seventeen hours and plus ten degrees? |
49525 | Did you boys listen in on his Casper speech last night? |
49525 | Die? 49525 Direction-- got a compass?" |
49525 | Disappeared? 49525 Distance sixty nine point two--_that_ all? |
49525 | Do I need to answer that? |
49525 | Do I? 49525 Do you call that horrible wound a_ scratch_?" |
49525 | Do you know why? |
49525 | Do you pronounce that or sneeze it? 49525 Do you remember what happened because the pirates learned to duplicate the golden meteor of the Triplanetary Service?" |
49525 | Do you see any detector rigs? |
49525 | Do you think it''s actually_ alive_, sir? 49525 Do you think you can get away with_ this_?" |
49525 | Do you want the job? 49525 Does it work?" |
49525 | Dwarf in the Trojan? |
49525 | Eight foot checkerwork to the hangin'', anyway, huh? |
49525 | Fred? 49525 From when?" |
49525 | Going fishing, huh? |
49525 | Got your maps? |
49525 | Has n''t it radiated_ yet_? |
49525 | Have any of the observers spotted anything, high up or far off? |
49525 | Have we got time enough? |
49525 | Have you any additional orders or instructions? |
49525 | Have you got a spy- ray into that lock- box yet? |
49525 | How about calling a Council conference on it? |
49525 | How about coming back to Tellus with me, Virge? |
49525 | How about the glory holes? |
49525 | How about the home planet, then? |
49525 | How d''ya like your new boss, May? |
49525 | How did_ that_ happen, Jack? |
49525 | How did_ that_ happen? 49525 How do you know-- another of your hunches?" |
49525 | How do you like_ them_ potatoes? |
49525 | How do you want it; voice, or Lens, or both? |
49525 | How long can you make a drill last? |
49525 | How low do you go? |
49525 | How many of you others agree with Corander; how many with Ohlanser? |
49525 | How wide a sag you figurin''on, Supe? |
49525 | How? |
49525 | How_ sure_ are you of this, Miss Samms? |
49525 | Huh? 49525 Huh? |
49525 | Huh? 49525 Huh? |
49525 | Huh? |
49525 | Huh? |
49525 | Huh? |
49525 | Huh? |
49525 | Huh? |
49525 | Hunting? 49525 Hush- hush? |
49525 | I suppose that it will be all right... that is, I can call on you again, if...? |
49525 | I take it, then, that there is no objection to her going? |
49525 | I''d better get at this, sir, do n''t you think, and let Operation Boskone go for a while? |
49525 | If I did have, do you think I''d be standing here talking to you? |
49525 | If you_ dared_? |
49525 | In spite of being over seven feet tall? 49525 In what respects?" |
49525 | Including Department Q? 49525 Is Tallick here, or anywhere on the planet?" |
49525 | Is it possible for you, sir or madam, to give me a moment of your time? |
49525 | Is there a doctor here? |
49525 | It has improved, then, lately? |
49525 | It''s perfectly safe here, you think? |
49525 | Jack and Mase-- I do n''t suppose you looked? |
49525 | Jill, do you agree with what Rod here has just told me? |
49525 | Jill, will you please explain why they have to waste as big a man as Kinnison on such a piffling job as president? 49525 Jill? |
49525 | Jones? 49525 Just a word, if you will, Mr. Samms, as to these trials and the White Book?" |
49525 | Just for my information, Mr. Isaacson, how many predecessors have I had on this particular job, and what happened to them? 49525 Just like that, huh?" |
49525 | Kill you, my pet? 49525 Look around, will you? |
49525 | Married? |
49525 | May I offer a suggestion, sir? |
49525 | May I take a moment of this idle time in which to spread my visualization, for enlargement and instruction? |
49525 | Me? 49525 Me? |
49525 | More men left than I thought-- how many-- half of''em? |
49525 | Mucker? |
49525 | Murgatroyd, do you suppose? |
49525 | No Lensman material here, you say, Rod? |
49525 | No guns? |
49525 | No invasion or occupation? 49525 No... o... o...?" |
49525 | No? 49525 No? |
49525 | No? |
49525 | Not enough to turn on_ anything_--not even the purifiers? |
49525 | Not whether I_ could_ have or not-- I couldn''t-- but_ should_ I have, Spud? |
49525 | Not_ exactly_ parallel? |
49525 | Now is the time for all good men and true to come to the aid of the party, eh? |
49525 | Now, Vice- Admiral Ohlanser...."How do you, a stranger, know my name? |
49525 | Now_ should_ I have shot her, or not? |
49525 | Of course not-- but did I use any language that would burn out the transmitters? 49525 Oh, does''oo?" |
49525 | Oh, you did? 49525 Oh... how? |
49525 | Ohlanser, then, who assumed command, is also a Petrino? 49525 One more question, Miss Samms?" |
49525 | Or Bergenholm at least? 49525 Or are you trying to set up a paradox?" |
49525 | Or been approached, or moved? |
49525 | Or did somebody tell you something? 49525 Or is it something I should not mention?" |
49525 | Ordinary or extraordinary, what matter? 49525 P- p- pine...?" |
49525 | Peace? 49525 Q as in''quiet'', eh? |
49525 | Quadruple second cousins? 49525 Ready to visit them, via Lens?" |
49525 | Ready? |
49525 | Rigelston, I would translate it? |
49525 | Rod? 49525 Rushton Boulevard, you think, Mase?" |
49525 | Shall I blow the air, sir? |
49525 | Shall we go out now an''start pickin''''em? |
49525 | Shall we spy- ray him, Virge? 49525 Shoving off early?" |
49525 | Since you do not drink, and since you were not in search of feminine... er... companionship, just why did you go down to Roaring Jack''s dive? |
49525 | Sirs, which of your Magnificences is officially the commander of this here bucket of odds and ends at the present instant? |
49525 | So you know? |
49525 | So? 49525 So?" |
49525 | Somebody must have done a terrific job of selling, to make you believe that... or_ are_ you sold, actually? |
49525 | Something slip? |
49525 | Space- happy? 49525 Support? |
49525 | Sure that was all? |
49525 | Sure, but what do_ they_ care? |
49525 | Tallick? 49525 Thanks, Skipper, but might n''t it be just as well,"he jerked his head inconspicuously toward the other officers,"to play the string out, this trip? |
49525 | That all? |
49525 | That was Spaceways, under cover? |
49525 | That''s enough, Rod, do n''t you think? |
49525 | The girl? 49525 The good old oil, eh?" |
49525 | The lunch- box, then, will be slightly special? |
49525 | The_ Chicago_? 49525 Then I-- I alone-- of all the entities in existence, can wear this particular Lens?" |
49525 | Then you can conceive of the desirability of working with non- Palainian entities toward an end which would benefit both races? |
49525 | There''ll be nothing doing here tonight, will there? |
49525 | They go crazy, eh? |
49525 | They''re not pikers, anyway, are they? 49525 Think you so?" |
49525 | This altruism-- what good is it? 49525 This arouses my curiosity no end-- does it merely complicate the thionite problem, or does it set up an entirely new problem? |
49525 | This where we''re going to land? |
49525 | This, I believe, concludes the business of the meeting? |
49525 | Too damn much water too soon, huh? |
49525 | Um... m... m. Put that away, it does n''t sound so good, does it? 49525 WHAT? |
49525 | WHERE ARE YOU FROM? 49525 Want me, Jill?" |
49525 | Want to know why he''s doing such a quick flit? |
49525 | Was n''t she the most perfectly_ beautiful_ thing you ever saw? |
49525 | We won-- technically-- I guess-- or did we? 49525 Well, Virge-- satisfied?" |
49525 | Well, are n''t you curious to know what it is? |
49525 | Well, my skeptical and pessimistic friend, was I lying, or not? |
49525 | Well, say that once upon a time there were two men named Albert and Chester...."What? 49525 Well, then, can Samms?" |
49525 | Well, then,Samms thought, almost viciously,"can you introduce me to someone who is stupider, sillier, and more foolish than you are?" |
49525 | Well? |
49525 | Well? |
49525 | Wha''s the idea of that damn surveyor lying to us like that? |
49525 | What am I here for, then? |
49525 | What are the symptoms? 49525 What are those mounds along the streets?" |
49525 | What did you do? |
49525 | What did you expect? 49525 What difference does it make?" |
49525 | What do you mean by_ that_ crack? |
49525 | What do you mean? |
49525 | What do you think should be done about him? |
49525 | What do you think you''re going to do? |
49525 | What do you want to get into it for? |
49525 | What do_ you_ think? 49525 What do_ you_ think?" |
49525 | What else? 49525 What gives? |
49525 | What in hell''s behind this? 49525 What is it, Virge?" |
49525 | What is reality? |
49525 | What is the opposition? |
49525 | What is there along that line? |
49525 | What kind of a car are you in? |
49525 | What next, sir? |
49525 | What of it? 49525 What ship shall we take, and when?" |
49525 | What the hell goes on here? |
49525 | What was the solution? |
49525 | What would I do with it? |
49525 | What would we use for time? 49525 What would you say, then, to the idea of this office being our real headquarters, of that little package there being our real business?" |
49525 | What would you use for a case? 49525 What''s the matter, Rod?" |
49525 | What''s the matter, Virge? |
49525 | What, then? |
49525 | What? 49525 What? |
49525 | What? 49525 What? |
49525 | What? 49525 When can you go? |
49525 | Where are you and what are you doing? |
49525 | Where are you, Jill? |
49525 | Where were you? |
49525 | Where''s Jones? |
49525 | Whither away, pilot? |
49525 | Who knows? |
49525 | Who of this club would be most interested in becoming a Lensman? |
49525 | Who''s being heroic now, Rod? |
49525 | Why did you stop_ here_? |
49525 | Why do n''t you go to Arisia and be tested for one? 49525 Why does n''t it back up or turn around? |
49525 | Why not, indeed? 49525 Why not? |
49525 | Why not? 49525 Why not?" |
49525 | Why not? |
49525 | Why not? |
49525 | Why talk, when we could be eating? 49525 Why was I not killed? |
49525 | Why, indeed? |
49525 | Why? 49525 Why? |
49525 | Why? |
49525 | Why? |
49525 | Will you need me any more, Doctor Murray? |
49525 | Winfield to First Lensman Samms-- you will be ready to blast off at twenty one hundred? |
49525 | With all this enthusiasm? 49525 Without knowing what the job is or how much it pays?" |
49525 | Without my boys-- the backbone and the guts of North America, as well as of the Patrol? 49525 Wonder how we came out? |
49525 | Yes, Jack?... 49525 Yes, Knobos? |
49525 | Yes, Miss Regan? |
49525 | Yes, Virge? |
49525 | Yes, sir? |
49525 | Yes? |
49525 | Yes? |
49525 | Yes? |
49525 | Yes? |
49525 | Yes? |
49525 | You already know the Lens? |
49525 | You are not even sending your fleet, or heavy units of it, with us, to see to it that we follow your instructions? |
49525 | You are sure of these observational facts? |
49525 | You are, I think, familiar with my parentage? |
49525 | You called Deke? |
49525 | You can, then, produce Lenses yourselves? |
49525 | You do n''t know? 49525 You do n''t think, then, that there is any chance?" |
49525 | You do not look like an Italian, but perhaps you have enough of that racial heritage to believe in prophecy? |
49525 | You had no trouble in recognizing me, then, my dear? |
49525 | You hope they do? |
49525 | You know what this is? |
49525 | You mean you are n''t going to kill me, even now? 49525 You observed and understood? |
49525 | You saw that, Alex? 49525 You think I''m safe, then?" |
49525 | You think they''d last until the next pay- day if they start playing that kind of ball? 49525 You up there ahead of me?" |
49525 | You wanted a diversion, did n''t you? |
49525 | You would n''t have, by any chance, been considering the idea of...? |
49525 | You would not be unduly surprised to learn that substances other than uranium occasionally reach Northport? |
49525 | You would? 49525 You''re telling me?" |
49525 | You''ve got some duty- dances, of course..."_ Some?_ I''ve got a list as long as from here to there! 49525 You, who have been so afraid of us for over two thousand million Tellurian years that you dared not let us even learn of you? |
49525 | Your scouts sounded me out; what did they tell you? 49525 Yourself first, the organization second?" |
49525 | _ Fourth_ Officer? 49525 _ Lovers!_ Who the hell ever said we were lovers?... |
49525 | _ Recent_ periodicity? |
49525 | _ Spaceways!_ Isaacson? |
49525 | _ Was ist los_, Stu? 49525 _ What?_"Kinnison exclaimed, then fell silent. |
49525 | _ Who_ says so, the dirty, sneaking liars? |
49525 | ''_ Virgilia_'', I suppose?" |
49525 | *****"That buttons thionite up, do n''t you think?" |
49525 | ... but I wonder... with the Lens perhaps telephones are superfluous? |
49525 | A_ tour de force_? |
49525 | After the fact, it is easy to say that he should have continued his personal supervision of Earth, but can that view be defended? |
49525 | All right?" |
49525 | All the comforts of home, eh?" |
49525 | Altruism? |
49525 | An''I was due to take the deep breath the next week, see? |
49525 | And Clayton and Schweikert and the rest of the gang? |
49525 | And Jack? |
49525 | And Riley? |
49525 | And a dance, huh?" |
49525 | And above all, how about Jill?" |
49525 | And as for a machine, what finer one is possible than the Patrol? |
49525 | And can you duplicate his machine?" |
49525 | And even had he thought it worth while to make such a glaring exception, would not the fused Elders of Arisia have intervened? |
49525 | And how can we make the approach? |
49525 | And how? |
49525 | And if the absentee were not to be found on Earth, what of it? |
49525 | And if they were to be forced out of normal space, what matter? |
49525 | And just where does that put the Palainians?" |
49525 | And now we''d better get to work, do n''t you think?" |
49525 | And say, from the throw of the pump and the volume of the sump, will you give me the best estimate you can of how much time we''ve got? |
49525 | And the major reason?" |
49525 | And to complete my argument, you work with other Palainians, do you not, to reach a common goal?" |
49525 | And what would they do about it?" |
49525 | And when can you go to work?" |
49525 | And when they grew up-- half way up, that is....""Do n''t tell me that we are going to suppose that all those identical twins married each other?" |
49525 | And when? |
49525 | And where do you go from there?" |
49525 | And where? |
49525 | And why Virgil Samms?" |
49525 | And why had some of that dexitroboper''s-- whatever_ that_ meant!--thoughts come in so beautifully sharp and clear and plain while others...? |
49525 | And why would anybody want to make such an all- out effort to get rid of you? |
49525 | And why, the reader asks, were not at least some of those named persons arrested before Election Day? |
49525 | And you others?" |
49525 | And you?" |
49525 | And...?" |
49525 | Animal, vegetable, or mineral?" |
49525 | Another hunch?" |
49525 | Anybody else covered?" |
49525 | Anybody except me wearing a pistol? |
49525 | Are n''t you holding back maybe just a little bit of a suspicion, for diplomatic reasons?" |
49525 | Are not some of them...?" |
49525 | Are you by any chance either hungry or thirsty?" |
49525 | Are you in trouble? |
49525 | Are you loose- screwed enough to actually think I would ask or need your permission? |
49525 | Are you pretty sure, Jill, that Herkimer is a key man?" |
49525 | Are you?" |
49525 | Are you_ sure_ of that? |
49525 | Atmospheric_ vibrations_?" |
49525 | Beauties? |
49525 | Been able to find out anything more about it?" |
49525 | Bergenholm passed you, of course?" |
49525 | Bergenholm?" |
49525 | Better we take it up with the boss, do n''t you think?" |
49525 | Better?" |
49525 | Black? |
49525 | Born with second sight-- or whatever it is?" |
49525 | But I gather, from what you have said, that I would probably not be given a Lens to use purely for my own selfish purposes?" |
49525 | But Mase would, before he went to bed-- or would he? |
49525 | But Ossmen is clean, you say, Jack? |
49525 | But about this stumping-- you said I''d better start as soon as we get back?" |
49525 | But are n''t you over- drawing a bit? |
49525 | But could n''t the voters tell easily enough which side was on the offensive and which on the defensive? |
49525 | But did you say a_ cold_ lemon sour?" |
49525 | But how many of your sons and daughters has Roderick Kinnison murdered, either personally or through his uniformed slaves? |
49525 | But how of these, my other friends? |
49525 | But how... oh, those?" |
49525 | But if he''s such a mental giant, why is n''t he getting results with his own problem, the meteor? |
49525 | But in spite of what you said about''ducking''politics, what have you got Northrop, Jill and Fairchild doing?" |
49525 | But is it something else, as well? |
49525 | But notice one beautiful thing about this story?" |
49525 | But now-- and I''ve got my ears pinned back-- what was it you started to say about pirates?" |
49525 | But the big break was-- you remember the disappearance of that girls''-school cruise ship?" |
49525 | But the field is so_ big_--how do you expect to find him? |
49525 | But the reason for this call is to ask you if you have anything new, however slight, to add to our very small knowledge of Zwilnik?" |
49525 | But there''s a note on my pad that he wants to see me sometime today-- suppose we have him come in now?" |
49525 | But we''ll get ours, huh?" |
49525 | But what makes you think that she''s anything to be afraid of? |
49525 | But what the hell else can we do?" |
49525 | But you and Mase, Jack?" |
49525 | But you have never been in thionite?" |
49525 | But you have suspicions or ideas? |
49525 | But you know what, Molly?" |
49525 | But, if Morgan were really the Big Shot, would he have deigned to interview personally such small fry as Olmstead? |
49525 | But-- can you stand transfer?" |
49525 | By analogy, and since Isaacson is apparently on the same level as Towne, immediately below Morgan....""Would n''t there be three? |
49525 | By being dumb?" |
49525 | By the way, you do n''t know yet who is going to carry it, do you?" |
49525 | By what stretch of the imagination do you figure that you can find anybody with a loose enough mouth to out- lie and out- promise Morgan? |
49525 | Ca n''t you raise_ anybody_?" |
49525 | Can do?" |
49525 | Can things be_ that_ rotten, really?" |
49525 | Can you and will you give me a chart of a routing from here to Palain Seven?" |
49525 | Can you classify''em from here, Jack?" |
49525 | Can you feature that? |
49525 | Can you give me the shortest possible distance?" |
49525 | Can you see any more of them, either of you?" |
49525 | Can you stand up yet?" |
49525 | Can you use a sap?" |
49525 | Can you?" |
49525 | Check?" |
49525 | Check?" |
49525 | Closing up, he asked:"Where are you taking that baggage, Charley?" |
49525 | Come into my office, will you, Rod?" |
49525 | Coming?" |
49525 | Confidential, sort of...?" |
49525 | Converted into... what? |
49525 | Could that constellation be Orion? |
49525 | Could the range of detection then be increased?" |
49525 | Could_ anybody_ build a bomb that powerful? |
49525 | Cylinder? |
49525 | DalNalten, I do n''t suppose it would be quite bright for you to go swimming down there too, would it?" |
49525 | Dead men, ringers, repeaters, ballot- box stuffing, and so on, you said?" |
49525 | Did Brainerd act or look nervous, toward the last? |
49525 | Did it? |
49525 | Did n''t you believe I knew what I was talking about?" |
49525 | Did you hear what the boss told''em today?" |
49525 | Did you think that moving upstairs would make a boot- licker out of me?" |
49525 | Disintegrated? |
49525 | Distance only, or is somebody on your tail?" |
49525 | Do I get heaved out between planets without a space- suit, or not?" |
49525 | Do either of you know him?" |
49525 | Do n''t you know that_ nobody_ can get anywhere near that damn planet?" |
49525 | Do you others agree? |
49525 | Do you want to come peaceably or shall I work on your neck again?" |
49525 | Do you, about yours?" |
49525 | Do you?" |
49525 | Does not the fact that we ceased hostilities so soon mean anything to you?" |
49525 | Does the Council think it''s got a man with enough dynage to lift the load?" |
49525 | Each of you has taken oath to the Galactic Patrol?" |
49525 | Even if we could find him... and by the way, what do you think the chance is of our spies finding him?" |
49525 | Fair enough?" |
49525 | Father told you about the way I work, I suppose?" |
49525 | First Lensman Samms, sir...?" |
49525 | Fishing?" |
49525 | Five levels above you are dead, you know, so....""Dead? |
49525 | Five years, let us say?" |
49525 | Flew away? |
49525 | Follow him? |
49525 | From where?" |
49525 | Funny, is n''t it, how hard it is to stop, even when you are n''t in any particular hurry? |
49525 | Go to Arisia?" |
49525 | Got your spotting screens full out, Mase?" |
49525 | Guess I''ll eat now-- join me in a sandwich and some hot coffee or a cold lemon sour or cherry soda?" |
49525 | Have I been too rough?" |
49525 | Have any of you boys anything to say? |
49525 | Have n''t we been eating out of the same dish for lo, these many moons? |
49525 | Have n''t you any idea who he is?" |
49525 | Have those big suns got any planets?" |
49525 | Have you any idea how long it will be? |
49525 | Have you any idea where?" |
49525 | Have you any other material, not necessarily facts, which may have bearing?" |
49525 | Have you any specific project in mind?" |
49525 | Have you got a little girl- friend, too?" |
49525 | Have you got a man you can break in to take your place here?" |
49525 | He likes little, cuddly baby- talkers, who pretend to be utterly spineless and completely brainless-- eh, Jack?" |
49525 | Her father? |
49525 | Heroin, hadive, and ladolian, was n''t it? |
49525 | How about it?" |
49525 | How about me giving the boys a briefing on it, right now?" |
49525 | How about the_ Bolivar_ and the_ Himalaya_? |
49525 | How about throwing a globe around Eridan?" |
49525 | How about time? |
49525 | How about you, Mase? |
49525 | How about you, Vice- Admiral Corander? |
49525 | How about you? |
49525 | How about your identical- twin cousins, Ray and George Olmstead, who have been doing such a terrific job of counter- spying?" |
49525 | How are you coming with Operation Bennett?" |
49525 | How can I know or report the exact mass, length, and orientation of single hairs?" |
49525 | How can a man of that caliber have been kicking around so long without me knowing anything about him?" |
49525 | How come?" |
49525 | How could they-- really-- exist as they seemed to exist? |
49525 | How could you possibly have overcome-- reconciled-- a situation so full of conflict?" |
49525 | How did you do it, Olmstead?" |
49525 | How did you know?" |
49525 | How do they get that way?" |
49525 | How do you expect me to build up a staff if you snatch every good man I find away from me?" |
49525 | How do you figure that?" |
49525 | How do you figure_ that_ puts her in my class?" |
49525 | How do you suppose I lived to get as old as I am now? |
49525 | How does it work?" |
49525 | How many of them had Tworn had to disable? |
49525 | How much detection have you got out?" |
49525 | How much radioactivity will it stand?" |
49525 | How often, would you say, do they have to come here to service this station-- change tapes, and whatever else might be necessary?" |
49525 | How say you, Bergenholm of Tellus? |
49525 | How was the crew taking it? |
49525 | How would you like to kick him from Panama City to the North Pole?" |
49525 | How would''Director of Research''sound?" |
49525 | How..._ how_... HOW could he do what he had to do? |
49525 | How? |
49525 | How?" |
49525 | How?" |
49525 | How_ could_ it happen? |
49525 | However....""What?" |
49525 | I am the first Tellurian you have met?" |
49525 | I ask you, Chief, does that make sense?" |
49525 | I assume that you four wish to continue at work?" |
49525 | I do n''t know of anything at all out that way, do you? |
49525 | I have drawn every picture I can think of with Isaacson in the driver''s seat, but none of them fit?" |
49525 | I never saw one close up before, did you? |
49525 | I think I''ll call Jill now, before I go-- wonder where she is? |
49525 | I want a spy- ray op-- is it safe to use Fred?" |
49525 | I wonder what this Dr. Olmstead does with his spare cash?" |
49525 | I wonder, though, if you knew how much of it was testing?" |
49525 | I wonder....""Why not have the boys in-- Jill, too-- and thrash it out?" |
49525 | I wonder...?" |
49525 | I''m ignoring you, too-- like this, see?" |
49525 | I''m still on your track?" |
49525 | If it has other powers... what are they?" |
49525 | If that trooper had known what was in the box beside his leg he probably would have fallen over backward; but how was he even to suspect? |
49525 | If they did n''t know about him, why the ships-- especially the big battlewagons? |
49525 | If they did think he might be out there somewhere, why did n''t they go and find out?" |
49525 | If, ten years ago, anyone had told you that such a race as the Rigellians existed, what would you have thought? |
49525 | In a place like this?" |
49525 | In force? |
49525 | In the meantime, who''s calling? |
49525 | Instead:"I would like to show you, if I may, the above- ground part of our Works?" |
49525 | Is he actually in supreme command?" |
49525 | Is he alone?" |
49525 | Is n''t that true, copper?" |
49525 | Is that clear?" |
49525 | Is the fault mine? |
49525 | It is, I now perceive, the Lens which makes this full accord possible, and it is basically about the Lens that you are here?" |
49525 | It would not take too many scouts, would it?" |
49525 | Jones almost screamed,"Can I dog the damn thing down?" |
49525 | Just how far down are you willing to start?" |
49525 | Kinnison exclaimed,"Can you''scopists see it on him?" |
49525 | Kinnison?" |
49525 | Kragzex?" |
49525 | Let me carry some of that plunder?" |
49525 | Let''s call it off, shall we? |
49525 | Like charges, repelling each other inversely as the square of the distance? |
49525 | ME? |
49525 | Maybe they''re going to make us breathe space....""Huh? |
49525 | Maybe you saw him talking to me a while back?" |
49525 | Measure this scratch, will you? |
49525 | Minutes? |
49525 | Miss Reed, get me Rand... Rand? |
49525 | Morgan began then to worry, but there was nothing he could do about the situation-- or was there? |
49525 | No indemnities to your Patrol, or reparations? |
49525 | No punishment of us, our men, or our families?" |
49525 | No thionite involved anywhere?" |
49525 | No, it must be more specific... Rigelsville? |
49525 | Nobody''s put a beam on him yet, have you?" |
49525 | Not a fleet, probably-- the_ Boise_? |
49525 | Not even a spy- ray block?" |
49525 | Not having much luck catching Mr. Black, are they?" |
49525 | Not two Irishmen named Pat and Mike? |
49525 | Nothing you could have done would have....""You know my name?" |
49525 | Now if we can come that close to winning an absolutely honest election, how do you figure we can possibly lose the kind this one is going to be? |
49525 | Now if you will step just a little closer to the mike, please, Mr. Samms, or should I say...?" |
49525 | Now would he please quit bellyaching and get to hell out? |
49525 | Now, how many of you jaspers have got your emergency kits on you? |
49525 | Now, sir, what everybody wants to know is-- who are the Blacks?" |
49525 | Now-- how are the Geigers on the outside of the Hill behaving?" |
49525 | Now-- you noticed, of course, the vote at the end of the meeting?" |
49525 | Number Four, you said, darling?" |
49525 | Of all the hells in space, why Arisia? |
49525 | Of course, we will soon have our own Galactic credit system worked out, but....""What the hell difference would_ that_ make?" |
49525 | Oh, those? |
49525 | On the Lens, sir?" |
49525 | Or Mase? |
49525 | Or better yet, one of those people it told about in those funny old books they dug up last year-- liege lords, or something like that, remember? |
49525 | Or both? |
49525 | Or both?" |
49525 | Or days? |
49525 | Or do you know where he is?" |
49525 | Or do you think I am?" |
49525 | Or even degrade me, or put me under arrest?" |
49525 | Or is he?" |
49525 | Or is it? |
49525 | Or the_ Chicago_?" |
49525 | Or was Olmstead''s job of more importance than he, Samms, had supposed? |
49525 | Or was n''t he holding her-- had the damn thing stopped cutting? |
49525 | Or was n''t the pirate fleet supposed to be in on this? |
49525 | Or weeks? |
49525 | Or were they in fact working together as closely as were the two young Lensmen themselves? |
49525 | Or what?" |
49525 | Or what?" |
49525 | Or would n''t you rather have it a twosome?" |
49525 | Petrine?" |
49525 | Plural? |
49525 | Pops Kinnison? |
49525 | Quite an operation, do n''t you think?" |
49525 | Returned? |
49525 | Rigel City?" |
49525 | Rigel and Betelgeuse? |
49525 | Right now?" |
49525 | Right?" |
49525 | S.?" |
49525 | Samms?" |
49525 | Second, why did you cut down, instead of increasing as ordered, the weight of broadleaf per trip? |
49525 | See?" |
49525 | See?" |
49525 | See?" |
49525 | Shall I hail her?" |
49525 | Shall we hunt him up and eat together?" |
49525 | Shall we report now, or are n''t you ready to go to work yet?" |
49525 | Shall we stick around and see whether it comes in from Cavenda or not?" |
49525 | She got her hair and eyes from you, why not your hard- headedness, too? |
49525 | She looked to be about twenty-- except her eyes-- but she must have been a hundred, to know so much-- but what are you boys staring so about?" |
49525 | She was sure that murder was intended, but who was to be the victim? |
49525 | Should he use his headlights, or not? |
49525 | Side- arms? |
49525 | Sitting on our fat rumps and crying into our beers?" |
49525 | Small? |
49525 | So afraid that you dare not, even now, meet me mind to mind, but insist upon the use of this slow and unsatisfactory oral communication between us?" |
49525 | So how about this? |
49525 | So it''s_ your_ doing-- what in hell''s the big idea?" |
49525 | So you noticed it yourself?" |
49525 | Somebody else? |
49525 | Somebody must have learned something before anything happened; but if they did, why did n''t they do more? |
49525 | Sunberg? |
49525 | Sure you wo n''t help me clean up on those sandwiches, before they get stale?" |
49525 | Sure?" |
49525 | Take a look-- you can, ca n''t you, with your Lens?" |
49525 | Tell him to-- how many men has he got on the rotary?" |
49525 | Thanks, immensely, for allowing me to come here, Mr....?" |
49525 | That all?" |
49525 | That city is named... that is, in your English you might call it... Suntown? |
49525 | That would mean... but where?" |
49525 | That''s the point we''re diving at now... see that crater?" |
49525 | The Marine Room, you said?" |
49525 | The Patrol get them?" |
49525 | The only chance now remaining is for you to win the election, and how can you do that? |
49525 | Then Drounli arrived; arrived in the instant of his leaving The Hill-- what matters even inter- galactic distance to the speed of thought? |
49525 | Then, as soon as Stanley''s voice came on:"What I want to know is, why is this damned water- pump overloading? |
49525 | Then, when he had emerged into the now brilliantly illuminated stope,"Where are the timber- pimps?" |
49525 | There are, I assume, other surviving officers of your rank, although of lesser seniority?" |
49525 | There_ must_ have been a leak somewhere-- but where in hell could it have been?" |
49525 | They are, then, actually available upon your world, Samms of Tellus?" |
49525 | They know what is going on, then?" |
49525 | This emmfozing, then-- if I read correctly, your race has only two sexes?" |
49525 | This feels funny, does n''t it?" |
49525 | This forecast is, I trust, sufficiently detailed so that you will have no difficulty in checking its accuracy or its lack thereof?" |
49525 | This is what you wanted?" |
49525 | This it?" |
49525 | This, from_ you_?" |
49525 | Three of my boys have just hatched out something that may be worth quite a few million credits a year to us.... Me? |
49525 | Understand?" |
49525 | Upon what basis did you arrive at the figure you established?" |
49525 | Valeria?" |
49525 | Vanished? |
49525 | Vice- Admiral Corander?" |
49525 | WHO ARE YOUR BOSSES? |
49525 | Want to come along?" |
49525 | Was stolen? |
49525 | Was this lifetime of agony only one minute? |
49525 | We all know what it_ does_, but what, really,_ is_ it? |
49525 | We should run an eye over it, do n''t you think?" |
49525 | Weak? |
49525 | Well, then, Mr. Samms, who do you think it was that tried to kill you, and where do you think the Black Fleet came from?" |
49525 | Were they, in fact as in seeming, total strangers? |
49525 | What about that Lens?" |
49525 | What are all you Lensmen-- the Galactic Council and so on-- really up to? |
49525 | What are they, Jack?" |
49525 | What are they, anyway? |
49525 | What are you taking? |
49525 | What could she do? |
49525 | What did they do to you?" |
49525 | What did_ you_ see?" |
49525 | What do they say?" |
49525 | What do you expect to get out of it? |
49525 | What do you get out of it?" |
49525 | What do you know about her-- and how?" |
49525 | What do you mean? |
49525 | What do you mean?" |
49525 | What do you think you''re doing, anyway-- playing tennis or seeing how many innocent bystanders you can bring down out of control?" |
49525 | What do you think, Virge? |
49525 | What does a Chief Dexitroboper do?" |
49525 | What does that mean? |
49525 | What does the ticket cover?" |
49525 | What does time mean to any Arisian? |
49525 | What duties would be connected with this... er... position? |
49525 | What for, I wonder? |
49525 | What good was life, except to enjoy such thrills as he had just had and was about to have again? |
49525 | What happened, and where?" |
49525 | What have you got on top of the umbrella, the_ Boise_ or the_ Chicago_? |
49525 | What in hell do you think_ I''d_ be doing? |
49525 | What is all this Lens stuff really about? |
49525 | What is it?" |
49525 | What is this job you''re so sure you are going to do?" |
49525 | What is your decision?" |
49525 | What makes you think that any such are available?" |
49525 | What matter that there were not that many planets in their native space? |
49525 | What of it? |
49525 | What of it?" |
49525 | What of it?" |
49525 | What other streets could it be?" |
49525 | What say we and some of you fellows round up some girls and go have us a party?" |
49525 | What say we do it now?" |
49525 | What was at the bottom of that affair-- the Lens or the woman? |
49525 | What was death? |
49525 | What was the matter? |
49525 | What were-- really-- those Palainians? |
49525 | What would I really do?" |
49525 | What would you be doing, if you were on the other side?" |
49525 | What would you do if our situations were reversed?" |
49525 | What''s Boskone?" |
49525 | What''s the circuit?" |
49525 | What''s the story? |
49525 | What''s the technique, and how do I cover up?" |
49525 | What''s your idea on that?" |
49525 | When did you stop being a sadist?" |
49525 | Where do you want this ninety- sixty with the doctors and nurses? |
49525 | Where does_ she_ fit into this picture? |
49525 | Where is your representation upon that so- called Galactic Council? |
49525 | Where next, First Lensman?" |
49525 | Where''s Pennoyer? |
49525 | Which pressed for action and which insisted on postponement and delay? |
49525 | While we wait, shall we study the planet a little?" |
49525 | Who can tell? |
49525 | Who invented it? |
49525 | Who is to select them?" |
49525 | Who is to watch the watchmen?" |
49525 | Who knows? |
49525 | Who knows?" |
49525 | Who was_ he_, that all these boys should care so much whether he lived or died? |
49525 | Who''s the captain of your team-- you or the clothes- horse?" |
49525 | Who, in your opinion, is the real boss?" |
49525 | Who, what, and why-- and for how long-- was Gray Roger? |
49525 | Whom did you talk to, and what did he, she, or it say?" |
49525 | Why axes? |
49525 | Why could n''t he?" |
49525 | Why did n''t our Mr. Murgatroyd do something? |
49525 | Why did n''t somebody Lens her? |
49525 | Why did n''t you?" |
49525 | Why do you do it? |
49525 | Why do you suppose they offered that much, when they can get anybody killed for a hundred? |
49525 | Why lie?" |
49525 | Why not Lewistons, or rifles, or pistols? |
49525 | Why not let him keep up the counter- espionage-- do the job you were figuring on doing yourself-- and you stay here and boss it?" |
49525 | Why not thousands of cycles ago? |
49525 | Why not?" |
49525 | Why should I be different from the rest of you?" |
49525 | Why should_ you_ die? |
49525 | Why the diffidence all of a sudden, Mase? |
49525 | Why was I allowed to keep on making campaign speeches? |
49525 | Why was I not informed of the Patrol''s real power-- how could you be guilty of such stupidity? |
49525 | Why, otherwise, had not a single one of the thousands of accused even been arrested? |
49525 | Why? |
49525 | Why? |
49525 | Why? |
49525 | Why?" |
49525 | Will they hold it up deliberately or strike fast?" |
49525 | Will you please send my car up to the Wright Skyway feeder?" |
49525 | Will you tell the public, First Lensman Samms, what your guess is?" |
49525 | Will you?" |
49525 | With whom? |
49525 | Witherspoon?" |
49525 | Wonder how he''ll go about it? |
49525 | Would it by any chance happen to coincide with our Tellurian November fourteenth of this present year?" |
49525 | Would it throw you off too much to go inert and match intrinsics, so that I can join you?" |
49525 | Would such a race of beings have need of such things as cities? |
49525 | Would there, or would there not, be cities? |
49525 | Would you like to come along?" |
49525 | Would you like to observe the proceedings?" |
49525 | Would you like to see them?" |
49525 | Would you part with her-- for, say, ten credits?" |
49525 | Wright, what would you say is the biggest sag we can cut in this kind of rock at two and a quarter feet a minute?" |
49525 | Wright, you''re all in one piece, are n''t you?" |
49525 | Y''don''t s''pose he''s going to take the Old Man away from us already, do you?" |
49525 | You also will realize that I must have become cognizant of my own peculiarities long before anyone else did or could?" |
49525 | You are an expert at that, I believe?" |
49525 | You are of course familiar in a general way with our operation at Northport?" |
49525 | You are of course observing all specified precautions as to key personnel?" |
49525 | You are, Spud?" |
49525 | You call it mewing and purring, I believe?" |
49525 | You can guess?" |
49525 | You do not perceive yours, either, as you drive?" |
49525 | You have given me a Lens for Roderick Kinnison; how about the others? |
49525 | You have? |
49525 | You know how sarcastic and superior he is, even when he''s wrong?" |
49525 | You know the edge of the galaxy closest to Tellus, where that big rift cuts in?" |
49525 | You swear it?" |
49525 | You think, then, that it might not be good technique to take the time to go back to the spaceport?" |
49525 | You two must have had a common ancestor-- or several-- not too far back, did n''t you?" |
49525 | You yourself expect an attack, do you not?" |
49525 | You''re a Procian, are n''t you?" |
49525 | You''ve been working on him right along, though, have n''t you?" |
49525 | You''ve given up, then, on the idea that Arisia is the pirates''GHQ?" |
49525 | You''ve got things in shape, have n''t you, so that you can take the week- end off?" |
49525 | You''ve seen systems like this before?" |
49525 | Zwilnik?" |
49525 | _ Atmospheric_ vibrations? |
49525 | _ How?_ Mind- reading?" |
49525 | _ How?_ Mind- reading?" |
49525 | _ How_ would California go? |
49525 | _ Lovers!_ Me and that red- headed stinker-- that jelly- brained sapadilly? |
49525 | _ Where_ did you get it?" |
49525 | _ You_ passed it, did n''t you?" |
49525 | er...?" |