"Kim Stanley Robinson - Forty Signs of Rain" - читать интересную книгу автора (Robinson Kim Stanley)

force. ISO LTR: тАЬin search of long-term relationship.тАЭ The species had long ago evolved toward
monogamous relationships, they were wired into the brainтАЩs structure, every culture manifesting the same
overwhelming tendency toward pair-bonding. Not a cultural imposition but a biological instinct. They
might as well be storks in that regard.

And so he read the ads, but never replied. He was only here for a year; San Diego was his home. It
made no sense to take any action on this particular front, no matter what he felt or read.

The ads themselves also tended to stop him.

Husband hunting, SWF, licensed nurse, seeks a hardworking, handsome SWM for LTR. Must be a
dedicated JehovahтАЩs Witness

SBM, 5тАЩ 5тАЭ, shy, quiet, a little bit serious, seeking Woman, age open. Not good-looking or wealthy but
Nice Guy. Enjoy foreign movies, opera, theater, music, books, quiet evenings

These entries were not going to get a lot of responses. But they, like all the rest, were as clear as could
be on the fundamental primate needs they were asking for. Frank could have written the urtext
underneath them all, and one time he had, and had even sent it in to a paper, as a joke of course, for all
those reading these confessions with the same analytical slant he hadтАФit would make them laugh.
Although of course if any woman reading it liked the joke well enough to call, well, that would have been
a sign.

MaleHomo sapiens desires company of femaleHomo sapiens for mutual talk and grooming behaviors,
possibly mating and reproduction. Must be happy, run fast.

But no one had replied.

He went out onto the bas-relief balcony, into the sultry late afternoon. Another two months and he
would be going home, back to resume his real life. He was looking forward to it. He wanted to float in
the Pacific. He wanted to walk around beautiful UCSD in its cool warmth, eat lunch with old colleagues
among the eucalyptus trees.

Thinking about that reminded him of the grant application from Yann Pierzinski. He went inside to his
laptop and Googled him to try to learn more about what he had been up to. Then he reopened his
application, and found the section on the part of the algorithm to be developed. Primitive recursion at the
boundary limitтАжit was interesting.

After some more thought, he called up Derek Gaspar at Torrey Pines Generique.

тАЬWhatтАЩs up?тАЭ Derek said after the preliminaries.

тАЬWell, I just got a grant proposal from one of your people, and IтАЩm wondering if you can tell me anything
about it.тАЭ

тАЬFrom one of mine, what do you mean?тАЭ

тАЬA Yann Pierzinski, do you know him?тАЭ

тАЬNo, never heard of him. He works here you say?тАЭ