"Mack Reynolds - After Utopia" - читать интересную книгу автора (Reynolds Mack)

selves, Tracy Cogswell. It is impossible to send matter
through time. Except forward, of course, at the usual
pace. However, the mind can and does travel in time.
Memory is nothing more than that. In dreams, the mind
even travels ahead sometimes, although we do not as yet
understand how that is possible, and it is usually in such
a haphazard manner that it is impossible to measure, to
get into a laboratory for study and to gather usable
data.тАЭ
Jo Edmonds said, тАЬIn your case, it was a matter of
going back into the past, seizing control of your mind and
then your body, and forcing you to perform yourself the
steps that would lead to your, ah, suspended animation,
as the academician puts it.тАЭ
For some reason, the younger manтАЩs easygoing tone
irritated Cogswell. тАЬWhat in the hellтАЩs an academician?тАЭ
Edmonds raised his eyebrows. тАЬOh,тАЭ he said, тАЬthatтАЩs
right. The degree evolved after your period. It was found
that even the Ph .D. had become somewhat
commonplace, so the higher one of academician was
created. It is quite difficult to attain.тАЭ
CogswellтАЩs irritation was growing. The two of them, no
matter how well intentioned they might seem to be now,
had a lot to answer for. Besides that, they were so
comfortably clean, so obviously well fed, so unworried
and adjusted. They had it made. It probably took a dozen
servants to keep up this house, to wait hand and foot on
Betty and Walter Stein and Jo Edmonds, to devote their
lives to these two so that they could continue to look so
comfortably sleek. And how many people did it take,
slaving away somewhere in industry or office, to provide
the funds necessary to maintain this fabulous
establishment? Parasites!
Tracy said flatly, тАЬSo you figured out a way of sending
back through time. Of hypnotizing me. Of providing my
hypnotized body with information that allowed it to put
itself into a state of suspended animation. To accomplish
this, I absconded with some twenty thousand dollars.
Perhaps that isnтАЩt a great deal in your eyes, but it was
composed of thousands upon thousands of tiny
donationsтАж donations to a great cause. An attempt to
make the world a better place to live in. To end poverty
and war.тАЭ
 Stein was frowning worriedly and clucking under his
breath. But the ever easygoing Edmonds had an amused
expression on his face, as though Cogswell couldnтАЩt have
said anything further out.
Cogswell snapped, тАЬWhen IтАЩve got back some of my
strength, IтАЩd like to take a crack at wiping some of that
vacant-minded amusement off your pretty face,