"Pat Cadigan - The Final Remake Of Little Latin Larry" - читать интересную книгу автора (Cadigan Pat)

they had come by him, so I had Ola blind-test him several times. Sure
enough, the memory bits were there. I've worked with kids before, even
those below the age of consent -- all legally, of course, by contract with
guardians -- so that wasn't a real problem. It just made me wonder,
though, how he knew, or how they knew about him and I kept trying to bring
the subject up whenever possible, but nobody cared to discuss it.
The Latinaires guy was another object lesson in not putting too much
emphasis on blood. He was a lifer -- the prison sent a courier with the
blood and tissue along with a copy of a twenty-year-old contract stating
that all proceeds went to the victims' survivors. I decided not to ask.
The Lascivious Latinette representative was married to the audience member
descendant. It looked like a pure business arrangement to me -- that is,
they were pleasant enough to each other, but I didn't detect much of a
bond between them. I got the feeling that they were making a family
business out of who they were descended from and they were looking to
produce offspring to cover off as many ancestors as possible. Or maybe
they just weren't that demonstrative.
The Latinette descendant was a six-foot ex-soldier named Fatima Rey and
she bore a very strong resemblance to her ancestor -- it could have been
surgical but I didn't think it was and Ola couldn't detect anything. Her
husband, the audience member descendant, by contrast, was so forgettable
that I often forgot him, even to who he was and what he was doing with us.
Fortunately, he didn't take offense easily. His name was -- oh, never
mind.

They didn't really want me to pay too much attention to the previous
remakes. Or rather, I should say that Carola didn't. She spoke for
everyone. I often got the feeling the rest of them had actually forced her
into the role of spokesperson just by virtue of the fact of her lineage
and because none of them wanted to take the responsibility. Sometimes she
seemed reluctant or even a bit lost, like she wanted someone else to check
up on her and see that she was doing the right thing. But however the
strings were pulling among them, they all pulled the same way on the
previous remakes -- no one wanted me to concentrate too much on what had
gone before.
Not that I could really argue with the reasoning. "We don't want anything
built up from what you remember was in a previous remake -- we want it to
come out of whatever you get from us, as if no one else had ever found
anything until now." Unquote.
Ola and her sidekick said they were with that one hundred percent, and it
wasn't like I could really argue with them, either. After all, they had to
do all the wetwork -- my job was all the sequence editing. But I tried
arguing that getting the sequencing right might well depend on my being
familiar at least with a lot of the major moments from past remakes.
Carola pointed out that would also be a way of perpetuating any past
errors.
So I quit arguing and just didn't tell them I was looking at the old
remakes. What can I say? I just don't like arguing.