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roup is against the war. But the war goes on. I was sent to Cleveland to talk to the engineers. The engineers were meeting in Cleveland. I was supposed to persuade them not to do what they are going to do. I took Uniteds 4:45 from LaGuardia arriving in Cleveland at 6:13. Cleveland is dark blue at that hour. I went directly to the motel, where the engineers were meeting. Hundreds of engineers attehe Clevelaing. I no?ticed many fractures among the engineers, ban?dages, tra. I noticed peared to be frac?ture of the carpal scaphoid in six examples. I notiumerous fractures of the humeral shaft, of the oscalcis, of the pelvic girdle. I noticed a high ince of clay-shovellers fracture. I could not at for these fra></dfn>tures. The engineers were making calculations, taking measurements, sketg on the blackboard, drinking beer, throwing bread, buttonholing employers, hurling glasses into the fireplace. They were friendly.They were friendly. They were full of love and information. The chief engineer wore shades. Pa?tella in Monks tra, clamshell fracture by the look of it. He was standing in a slum of beer bottles and microphone cable. "Have some of this chi a la Isambard Kingdom Bruhe Great Ingineer," he said. "And declare who you are and what we do for you. What is your line, distinguished guest?"
"Software," I said. "In every sense. I am here representing a small group of ied parties. We are ied in your thing, which seems to be funing. In the midst of so much dysfun, fun is iing. Other peoples things doo be w. The State Departments thing doeso be w. The U.N.s thing doeso be w. The democratic lefts thing doeso be w. Buddhas thing --"
"Ask us anything about our thing, which seems to be w," the chief engineer said. "We will open our hearts and heads to you, Software Man, because we want to be uood and loved by the great lay publid have our marvels appre?ciated by th<u></u>at public, for which we daily unsung produce tons of new marvels each more life-en?hang than the last. Ask us anything. Do you want to know about evaporated thin-film metal?lurgy? Monolithid hybrid ied-circuit processes? The algebra of inequalities? Optimiza?tion theory? plex high-speed miiniature closed and open loop systems? Fixed variable mathematical cost searches? Epitaxial deposition of semi-duaterials? Gross interfaced space gropes? We also have specialists in the cuckoo?flower, the doctorfish, and the dumdum bullet as these relate to aspects of todays expanding teology, and they do in the dam ways."
I spoke to him then about the war. I said the same things people always say when they speak against the war. I said that the rong. I said that large tries should not burn down small tries. I said that the gover had made a series of errors. I said that these errors once small and fivable were now immense and unfivable. I said that the gover was at?tempting to ceal its inal errors under layers of new errors. I said that the gover was sick with erriddy with it. I said that ten thousand of our soldiers had already been killed in pursuit of the govers errors. I said that tens of thou?sands of the enemys soldiers and civilians had been killed because of various errors, ours and theirs. I said that we are responsible for errors made in our name. I said that the gover should not be allowed to make additional errors.
"Yes, yes," the chief engineer said, "there is doubtless much truth in what you say, but ossibly lose the war, we? And stopping is los?ing, isnt it? The war regarded as a process, stop?ping regarded as an abort? We dont know how to lose a war. That skill is not among our skills. Our array smashes their array, that is what we know. That is the process. That is what is.
"But lets not have any more of this dispiriting dow terproductive talk. I have a few new marvels here Id like to discuss with you just briefly. A few new marvels that are just about ready to be gaped at by the admiring layman. sider for instahe area of realtime online puter-trolled wish evaporation. Wish evaporation is going to be crucial iing the rising expecta?tions of the worlds peoples, which are as you know risiirely too fast."
I noticed then distributed about the room a great many transverse fractures of the ulna. "The devel?opment of the pseudo-ruminant stomach for under-developed peoples," he went on, "is one of our iing things you should be ied in. With the pseudo-ruminant stomach they chew cuds, that is to say, eat grass. Blue is the most popular color worldwide and for that reason we are work?ing with certain strains of your native Kentucky Poa pratensis, or bluegrass, as the staple input for the p/r stomach cycle, which would also give a shot in the arm to our balance-of-payments thing dont you know. . ." I noticed about me then a great number of metatarsal fractures in banjo splints. "The kangaroo initiative. . . eight huhou?sand harvested last year. . . highest pertage of edible protein of any herbivore yet studied. . ."
"Have new kangaroos been planted?"
The engineer looked at me.
"<bdi></bdi>I intuit your hatred and jealousy of our thing," he said. "The iual always hate our thing and speak of it as anti-human, which is not at all a meaningful way to speak of our thing. Nothing meical is alien to me," he said (amber spots making bursts of light in his shades), "because I am human, in a sense, and if I think it up, then it is human too, whatever it may be. Let me tell you, Software Man, we have been damned forbearing iter of this little war you declare yourself to be ied in. Fun is the cry, and our thing is funing like crazy. There are things we could do that we have not doeps we could take that we have not taken. These steps are, regarded in a certain light, the light of our enlightened self-inter?est, quite justifiable steps. We could, of course, get irritated. We could, of course, lose patience.
"We could, of course, release thousands upon thousands of self-powered crawling-along-the-grouhs of titanium wire eighteen inches long with a diameter of .0005 timetres (that is to say, invisible) which, sting an enemy, climb up his tr and themselves around his neck. We have developed those. They are within our capabilities. We could, of course, release in the arena of the upper air our new improved pufferfish toxin which precipitates ay crisis. No spe?cial teical problems there. That is almost laugh?ably easy. We could, of course, place up to two million maggots in their rice withiy-four hours. The maggots are ready, massed i staging areas in Alabama. We have hypodermic darts capable of piebalding the enemys pigmenta?tion. We have rots, blights, and rusts capable of attag his alphabet. Those are dandies. We have a hut-shrinking chemical which pees the fibres of the bamboo, causing it, the hut, tle its octs. This operates only after 10 P.M., when people are sleeping. Then: mathematics are at the mercy of a suppurating surd we have ied. We have a family of fishes traio attack their fishes. We have the deadly testicle-destroying telegram. The cable panies are cooperating. We have a green substahat, well, Id rather not talk about. We have a secret word that, if pro?nounced, produces multiple fractures in all living things in ahe size of four football fields."
"Thats why --"
"Yes. Some damned fool couldnt keep his mouth shut. The point is that the whole structure of enemy life is within our power to rend, vitiate, devour, and crush. But thats not the iing thing."
"You ret these possibilities with unon relish."
"Yes I realize that there is too much relish here. But you must realize that these capabilities repre?sent in and of themselves highly teical and ?plex and iing problems and hurdles on which our boys have expended many thousands of hours of hard work and brilliance. And that the effects are often grossly exa藏书网ggerated by irrespon?sible victims. And that the whole thing represents a fantastic series of triumphs for the multi-disci?plined problem-solving team cept."
"I appreciate that."
"We could unleash all this teology at once. You imagine what would happen then. But thats not the iing thing."
"What is the iing thing?"
"The iing thing is that we have a moral se is on punched cards, perhaps the most advanced aive moral sehe world has ever known."
"Because it is on punched cards?"
"It siders all siderations in endless and subtle detail," he said. "It even quibbles. With this great new moral tool, how we g? I ?fidently predict that, although we could employ all this splendid neonry Ive been telling you about, were not going to do it."
"Were not going to do it?"
I took Uniteds 5:44 from Cleveland arriving at Newark at 7:19. New Jersey is bright pink at that hour. Living things move about the surface of New Jersey at that hour molesting each other only in traditional ways. I made my report to the group. I stressed the friendliness of the engineers. I said, Its all right. I said, We have a moral sense. I said, Were not going to do it. They didnt believe me.
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