"Theodore Sturgeon - Slow Sculpture" - читать интересную книгу автора (Sturgeon Theodore)

ing the next question: why is so-and-so the way it is?
Why can't it be such-and-such instead? There is always
another question to be asked about anything or any situa-
tionespecially you shouldn't quit when you like an an-
swer because there's always another one after it. And we
live in a world where people just don't want to ask the
next question!
"I've been paid all my stomach will take for things
people won't use and if I'm mad all the time, it's really
my fault--I admit it--because I just can't stop asking that
next question 'and coming up with answers. There are a
half-dozen real block-busters in 'that lab that nobody will
ever see and half a hundred more in my head. But what
can you do in a world where people would rather kill
each other in a desert, even when they're shown it can
turn green and bloom--where they'll fall all over them-
selves to pour billions into developing a new oil strike
when it's been proved over and over again that 'the fossil
fuels will kill us all? Yes, I'm angry. Shouldn't I be?"
She let the echoes of his voice swirl around the court
and out through the hole in the top of the atrium and


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waited a little longer to let him know he was here with her
and not beside himself and his fury. He grinned at her
sheepishly when he came to this.
And she said, "Maybe you're asking the next question
instead of asking the right question. I think people who
live by wise old sayings are trying not to 'think--but I
know one worth paying some attention to. It's this. If you
ask a question the right way, you've just given the an-
swer." She went on, "I mean, if you put your hand on a
hot stove you might ask yourself, how can I stop my hand
from burning? And the answer is pretty clear, isn't it? If
the world keeps rejecting what you have to give--there's
some way of asking why that contains the answer."
"It's a simple answer," he said shortly. "People are
stupid."
"That isn't the answer and you know it," she said.
"What is?"
"Oh, I can't tell you that! All I know is that the way
you do something, where people are concerned, is more
important than what you do. If you want results, I mean
you already know how to get what you want with 'the
tree, don't you?"
"I'll be damned."
"People are living, growing things, too. I don't know a