"C M Kornbluth - The Events Leading Down To Tragedy" - читать интересную книгу автора (Kornbluth C M)

After this preamble, I come now to the modern part of my tale. It begins in 1954, with the purchase of
the Haddam



тАв STOLP, A. DeW.: "Some Textual Problems Relating to the Corre-



тАвpoodence between Major Elisha Watling and Colonel Hiram Fraskell, Eleusis, Pennsylvania, July
27-September 1, 1789" (art.) in Bull, of



тАв┬╗ Tuscarora Township Hist. Soc., Vol. IV, No. 1, Spring, 1917.
┬л Amusingly known to hoi polloi and some who should know better as fee "Kentucky" Rifle.



property by our respected fellow-townsman, that adoptive son of Eleusis, Dr. Caspar Mord. I much
regret that Dr. Mord is apparently on an extended vacation [where can the man be? HS]; since he is not
available [confound it! HS] to grant permission, I must necessarily "skirt" certain topics, with a plea that
to do otherwise might involve a violation of confidence. [Positively, there are times when one wishes that
one were not a gentleman! HS]



I am quite aware that there was an element in our town which once chose to deprecate Dr. Mord, to
question his degree, to inquire suspiciously into matters which are indubitably his own business and no
one else's, such as his source of income. This element of which I speak came perilously close to sullying
the hospitable name of Eleusis by calling on Dr. Mord in a delegation afire with the ridiculous rumor that
the doctor had been "hounded out of Peoria in 1929 for vivisection."



Dr. Mord, far from reacting with justified wrath, chose the way of the true scientist. He showed this
delegation through his laboratory to demonstrate that his activities were innocent, and it departed singing
his praises, so to speak. They were particularly enthusiastic about two "phases" of his work which he
demonstrated: some sort of "waking anaesthesia" gas, and a mechanical device for the induction of the
hypnotic state.



I myself called on Dr. Mord as soon as he had settled down, in my capacity as President of the Eleusis
Committee for the Preservation .of Local Historical Buildings and Sites. I explained to the good doctor
that in the parlor of the Had-dam house had been formed in 1861 the Oquanantic Zouaves, that famed
regiment of daredevils who with zeal and dash guarded the Boston (Massachusetts) Customs House
through the four sanguinary years of conflict. I expressed the hope that the intricate fretsaw work, the
stained glass, the elegant mansard roof and the soaring central tower would remain mute witnesses to the