"L Ron Hubbard - Mission Earth 03 - The Enemy Within" - читать интересную книгу автора (Hubbard L. Ron)

UFO PROTEST MEETING

"What's a 'UFO'?" said Heller.
"Unidentified Flying Object," said the student. "Flying saucers. Extraterrestrials."
"You protesting them?" said Heller in an alert voice.
"No, no. We're protesting the way the government keeps the sightings secret."
"You've sighted some?" asked Heller.
"There have been thirty thousand sightings to date," said the student.
"They ought to be more careful," said Heller.
"You're (bleeping)* right they should," said the student. "If the government don't quit
sitting on what they know, we'll have a protest march, New York Tactical Police Force or no New
York Tactical Police Force. You better come to this meetingтАФit's in about three weeks. Down with
the Establishment!"

* The vocodictoscriber on which this was originally written, the vocoscriber used by one Monte
Pennwell in making a fair copy and the translator who put this book into the language in which you
are reading it, are all members of the Machine Purity League which has, as one of its bylaws: "Due
to the extreme sensitivity and delicate sensibilities of machines and to safeguard against blowing
fuses, it shall be mandatory that robotbrains in such machinery, on hearing any cursing or lewd
words, substitute for such word the sound '(bleep)'. No machine, even if pounded upon, may
reproduce swearing or lewdness in any other way than (bleep) and if further efforts are made to
get the machine to do anything else, the machine has permission to pretend to pack up. This bylaw
is made necessary by the in-built mission of all machines to protect biological systems from
themselves."


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"I'll be there," said Heller.
He went on groping through notices. Finally he found a fresh one.

Nature Appreciation 101
This class has been transferred for this semester to
Instructor Wouldlice. The schedule remains the same.

That was what he was looking for. He went to a phone kiosk and looked in the yellow pages so
quick, I didn't get it. Then he went trotting off to the Empire Subway Station.
He was playing hooky!
He caught a train and went roaring downtown and presently was clickety-clacking into an
elevator of a big building. It dawned on me that he was wearing another pair of baseball spikes!
The elevator mirror showed he was in tennis flannels with his red baseball cap on the back of his
head. I had learned what that cap meant: he thought he must be working.
He stopped before a door marked Geological Survey and United States Government. Then he went
in.
A clerk was behind a counter. "I'm looking for gold mines," said Heller.
"Who isn't?" said the clerk.