"Barry N. Malzberg - What I Did To Blunt The Alien Invasion" - читать интересную книгу автора (Malzberg Barry N)

number, have infiltrated the populace, they will have reached a kind of
Heisenbergian mass and through use of the uncertainty effect will topple entropy
itself. Oh, we must be alert, we must be alert, we must be aware!" I pointed
out, gesturing somewhat floridly (but in a controlled and geometric fashion) in
the park on that and other difficult evenings and I would like to say that I
drew a crowd and some enlightened response but due to the very dreadful and
imminent conditions created in part by the aliens themselves, I am afraid that I
was unable to elicit the kind of response which was deserved under the
circumstances. Tried then in the presence of few and the absence of many to
make the situation entirely clear but, met only by welling indifference and at
last the tanks and brutalities of the guardians, was able to shout no more.

7. Tried to consider all parts of the issue, all phases, and alternatives.
"Perhaps I am fantasizing," I told them when they had called me in for further
investigation, "but that doesn't mean that it isn't true, that they aren't here,
it just means that I have no hard evidence, that I cannot produce them. Not
that I im fantasizing, you understand, although I will make that stipulation for
the purposes of argumentation. I have a serious mission, this is serious
business, we are talking about the alienation effect," but their faces were
bleak and implacable; oh, I know something of bleakness and implacability, it
must truly be conceded, although it is not these qualities alone which will
suffice when they come tunneling through our streets, using their massive
weaponry, dismembering our civilization.

8. Seized Susan in a sexual embrace and tried to convert her to understanding
through sheer will, some Reichian orgone box of the spirit, performing upon her
otherwise unprintable and desperate acts which need no explication within this
difficult compass. "You've got to listen," I said as she struggled. "You've
got to hear me out, you have to understand that there are aliens among us, they
may even as I speak have seized me just as I seize you," and the desperate cries
of her resistance sped me only further on my way as I joined with her in an
absolute cold infusion of knowledge, a spiraling knowledge of spiraling aliens
as pointlessly she resisted the knowledge which would free her.

9. Begged the aliens, as they clutched me, as they took me away, to heed my
pleas for the sake of our destiny, "Behold truly, I will not betray my race
before cockcrow," I said, "not one time, not twice, not three times," and
invoked what frail Scripture I knew to try to change their course, our destiny.
"Comfort me with apples," I said, "and leave us time and season," but beggars,
like betrayers before cockcrow, cannot oppose with reason that which is
implacable and doom ridden, although I tried and tried.

10. Offered my services as administrator. "All right," I said to them, in the
consultation room, being allowed as was their policy (they said) one interview
in which to make my position known. "You need an intermediary, someone you can
trust, someone who can speak to both sides and surely I have done that
throughout. Consider Petain," I said, "consider Quisling, consider the occupied
territories. Consider how truly dapper and assimilated I will look in my
eight-foot disguise," and so on and so forth; there are, after all, as many
species of failure, as many varieties of submission as there are of success and