"Gordon R. Dickson - Idiot Solvant" - читать интересную книгу автора (Dickson Gordon R)

At the same time, however, it just happened to be a dome-shaped
all-weather shield capable of protecting a city ten miles in diameter the year
round. The "skin" of the dome consisted of a thin layer of carbon dioxide
such as one finds in the bubbles of champagne, generated and maintained
by magnetic lines of force emanating from three heavily charged bodies, in
rotation about each other at the apex of the dome and superficially housed
in a framework the design of which was reminiscent of the wing structure
found in the family Syrphidae of the order Diptera.
Art continued to smile as the design took form. But it was a thoughtful
smile, a mature smile. Hank and Arlie had been quite right about him. He
had always been a butterfly, flitting from notion to notion, playing.
But then, too, he had always been a bad hypnotic subject, full of
resistances.
And he was about to have a wife to care for. Consequently it is hard to
say whether Arlie and Hank would have been reassured if they could have
seen Art at that moment. His new thinking was indeed adult, much more so
than the other two could have realized. Where miracles were concerned, he
had given up playing.
Now, he was working.

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