"Emil Petaja - The Path Beyond The Stars" - читать интересную книгу автора (Petaja Emil)

тАЬSuppose we find a way to break the Pattern?тАЭ
Venus shook her head. тАЬEven if that were possible, think what might
happen if you did! The Pattern is what holds all of what we call space and
time together. If you broke the Pattern, what would be left?тАЭ
тАЬChaos.тАЭ
тАЬOf course. So when the Star Reader tells me I must die, that Trog will
kill me, I must believe.тАЭ
тАЬBecause you are a Believer,тАЭ Jon grunted.
The girl got up with a shrug, as if to slough off her own importance in
the scheme of things. тАЬMy life doesn't matter, Jon. It's the terrible thing
Trog intends to do that frightens us to the point of insanity. You've got to
stop himтАФor at least try.тАЭ
тАЬYou keep piling this on me,тАЭ Jon grumbled. тАЬFirst, you slap me silly with
the prospect of seeing you go up in smoke right in front of my eyesтАФwith
nothing I can do about itтАФand now I'm supposed to stop some black
shadow from doing some damn thing or other. How about some facts?тАЭ
тАЬSorry. I can't give you any facts about Trog. He's too clever for that.тАЭ
тАЬWhere does Trog come from? What is he?тАЭ
тАЬIn that one flash when he almost revealed himself to me, my intuate
told me that he comes from another time phase. Our future, I think. Far, far
in our future. Almost to the very end of the Pattern.тАЭ
Jon stalked to the window, stared out into the drizzle and fog. тАЬYou
make it sound too damn easy!тАЭ
тАЬAt times of great stressтАФat the time of one's deathтАФit is surprising
how unimportant the important becomes.тАЭ
тАЬThis Pattern of yours. It includes everything? What everything? How
much everything?тАЭ
тАЬAll that our human minds can contain. Our universe.тАЭ
тАЬTime?тАЭ
тАЬAll time phases which involve man and man's thought. To a being
beyond our space-time Pattern everything is all of a piece, a cohesive,
all-at-once whole.тАЭ
тАЬEinstein's fourth dimension.тАЭ
тАЬThink of an ant climbing up a wall. There are all kinds of things
happening on other planes but, being virtually flat, he can see only the
wallтАФnow. Man is like that ant.тАЭ
 тАЬExcept his mind!тАЭ
тАЬRight! An intuate like you, Jon Wood, ought not to be so narrow that he
rejects what all those other minds have worked so hard to understand since
the first caveman looked up at the stars and thought there had to be some
kind of sense to it all. Primitives have an instinctive power of belief. It's a
lot like your dowsing power. Can't you see that? Science is often restrictive.
It won't permit leap-outs, It concerns itself with small patterns and cycles,
never allowing itself to imagine the whole Pattern all at once.тАЭ
тАЬScientists like orderly facts. Their theories have got to be founded on
reasonable data.тАЭ
тАЬYet wasn't it the visionaries, the dreamers, who first realized that the
Earth was not the center of the universe? And science-fiction writers who
first postulated life in other star systems and humans going there?
Dreamers have always been the ones who leaped ahead. They didn't worry