"Harry Harrison - Galactic Dreams" - читать интересную книгу автора (Harrison Harry)

"David! What are you doing?тАЭ His father's voice cracked with uncomprehending
horror.

David turned away from the thing on the floor, still unmoved by what he had
done.
"Don't you understand, Father? Barre and his Panstentialists are indeed a
terrible weight. Many suffer and freedom is abridged, and all the other things
that are wrong, that we know should not be. But don't you see the difference?
You yourself said that things would change after Barre's death. The world
would move on. So how is his crime to be compared to the crime of bringing
this back into existence?тАЭ

He shot his father quickly and efficiently before the older men could realize
the import of his words and suffer with the knowledge of what was coming.
Torrence screamed and ran to the door, fumbling with terrified fingers at the
lock. David shot him too. But not very well since he was so far away, and the
bullet lodged in his body and made him fall. David walked over and ignoring
the screamings and bubbled words, took careful aim at the man's twisting head
and blew out his brains.

Now the gun was heavy and he was very tired. The lift shaft took him up to his
room and he had to stand on a chair to take teddy down from behind the books
on the high shelf. The little furry animal sat in the middle of the large bed
and rolled its eyes and wagged its stubby arms.

"Teddy," he said, "I'm going to pull up flowers from the flower bed.тАЭ

"No Davy . . . pulling up flowers is naughty . . . don't pull up the flowers.тАЭ

The little voice squeaked and the arms waved.

"Teddy, I'm going to break a window.тАЭ

"No, Davy . . . breaking windows is naughty . . . don't break any windows . .
.тАЭ

"Teddy, I'm going to kill a man.тАЭ

Silence, just silence. Even the eyes and the arms were still.

The roar of the gun broke the silence and blew a ruin of gears, wires and bent
metal from the back of the destroyed teddy bear.

"Teddy . . . oh, teddy . . . you should have told me," David said and dropped
the gun and at last was crying.

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