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A MOMENTARY TASTE OF BEING
By

James Tiptree Jr.
Contents

Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV


James Tiptree, Jr., lives in Virginia, not far from the capital, and prefers to let public attention
center on his stories, not on his private lifeтАФso not much is generally known about his profession,
marital status, childhood and upbringing, and such. He is willing to admit that he is a man of
middle years who has traveled widely; all the rest is conjecture, at this point. His first
science-fiction stories were published as recently as 1968, and within a few years he had become a
favorite of readers for such dazzling tales as "Your Haploid Heart," "Painwise," "The Girl Who
Was Plugged In," and "The Women Men Don't See." In 1973 fifteen of his best stories were
collected in a volume called Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home. Tiptree's short story Love Is the
Plan, the Plan Is Death was voted a Nebula by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1974.


тАж A momentary taste

Of Being from the Well amid the WasteтАФ

тАФKhayyam/Fitzgerald

A MOMENTARY TASTE OF BEING
Chapter I



тАж It floats there visibly engorged, blue-green against the blackness. He stares: It swells, pulsing
to a terrifying dim beat, slowly extrudes a great ghostly bulge which extends, solidifiesтАж it is a
planet-testicle pushing a monster penis toward the stars. Its blood-beat reverberates through
weeping immensities; cold, cold. The parsecs-long phallus throbs, probes blindly under intolerable
pressure from within; its tip is a huge cloudy glans lit by a spark: Centaur. In grief it bulges,
lengthens, seeking releaseтАФstars toll unbearable crescendo . . .

It is a minute or two before Dr. Aaron Kaye is sure that he is awake in his temporary bunk in Centaur's
quarantine ward. His own throat is sobbing reflexively, his eyes are weeping, not the stars. Another of the
damn dreams. Aaron lies still, blinking, willing the icy grief to let go of his mind.