"James White - SG 10 - The Final Diagnosis" - читать интересную книгу автора (White James)

requires it. It may be helpful to consider the visual effect of your flabby, pink,
smooth-skinned body on my aesthetic sensibilities. So please stop trying to push
yourself backward through the wall and listen to me. You may close your eyes, if
it helps. _ First, have you eaten recently? Second, do you have an* urgent need to
eliminate body wastes?тАЭ

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"Y-yes," Hewlitt replied. Just to be contrary he kept his eyes open, trying to stare
the disgusting creature down. But* there were too many dark, wet swellings
showing between its oily fronds and membranes for him to know which of them
were eyes. He added, "Just before I left the ship. no, I don't have to go to the
toilet.тАЭ

"Then you have no reason to leave your bed," said the charge nurse, "so please
remain in it until Senior Physician Medalont has examined you and officially
pronounced you capable of moving about the ward without nursing assistance.
The next meal will be served in a little over three hours and your examination will
take place before then. But there is no cause for alarm, Patient Hewlitt, because
the procedure will be noninvasive and predominantly verbal

"When you are allowed out of bed," Leethveeschi went on, "you will be given a
translator programmed for the languages used by the ward patients and medical
staff. It seems that you have had limited opportunities for other-species contact,
and here you will be able to remedy that. Talk to the other patients as soon as you
feel .comfortable doing so and you are not getting in the way of the medical staff.
Patients who have screens around their beds are either undergoing treatment,
resting, or being isolated for other reasons, and those you must not disturb. Most
of the patients will talk to you, if they are feeling sociable, and you need not worry
about their outward appearance, because all of the patients here are ugly, gross,
and visually repellent

"Without exception.тАЭ

He wondered if there had been a glint of humor in a few of the dark, wet blisters
that might have been looking at him as it spoke the words, but dismissed the idea
as ridiculous

"In the bed opposite is Patient Henredth, a Kelgian," it continued. "Diagonally on
your left is Patient Kletilt, from Melf, and beside you is an Ian named Makolli
who is being transferred to Level Forty-Seven later today, so you may not get the
chance to talk to it. I don't know who or what we will be sent in its place. But for

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