"Edmond Hamilton - Captain Future 23 - The Harpers of Titan" - читать интересную книгу автора (Hamilton Edmond)

reckless, driven by the demon of his
own loneliness, a bitter searcher after
knowledge, a stranger to his own kind.
Simon thought. We made him so,
Otho and Grag and I. And we wrought
too well. There is too much iron in
him. He will break, but never bend -
and I will not have him broken
because of me!
Harker said, very slowly, "I don't
understand."
Simon explained. "Keogh's body is
whole. Only the brain was destroyed.
If the body were supplied with another
brain - mine - Keogh would seem to
live again, to finish his task in
Moneb."
Harker stood for a long moment
without speaking. Then he whispered,
"Is that possible?"
"Quite possible. Not easy, not even
safe - but possible."
Harker's hands clenched into fists.
Something, a light that might have
been hope, crept back into his eyes.
"Only we five," said Simon, "know
that Keogh died. There would be no
difficulty there. And I know the
language of Titan, as I know most of
the System tongues.
"But I would still need help - a
.guide, who knew Keogh's life and
could enable me to live it for the short
time that is necessary. You, Harker.
And I warn you, it will not be easy."
Harker's voice was low, but steady.
"If you can do the one thing, I can do
the other."
Curt Newton said angrily, "No one
is going to do anything of the sort.
Simon, I won't have any part of it!"
The stormy look that Simon knew
so well had come into Curt's face. If
Simon had been able to, he would
have smiled. Instead, he spoke exactly
as he had spoken so many times
before, long ago when Curt Newton
was a small redheaded boy playing in
the lonely corridors of the laboratory
hidden under Tycho, with no