"Walter Jon Williams - Surfacing (2)" - читать интересную книгу автора (Williams Walter John)

SURFACING 3


ХI/WE


ARE IN A STATE


OF RELATIVE MOTION


COLDINGLY (IN A COLD STATE OF MIND)


THE OILY (6,?)


CURRENT? DEEP? REGION?


ARE RISING TOWARD


(AND) ARE THINKING ABOUT


FEEDINGLY SLIPPERY (4)-TASTING


COORDINATES


literal and most of what Anthony suspected was context had been lost. "I and the oily current are in a state of motion toward one another" was perhaps more literal, but "We (the oily deep and I) are in a cold state of mind" was perhaps equally valid.


The boat gave a corkscrew lurch, dropped down the face of a swell, came to an abrupt halt at the end of its drogue. Water slapped against the stern. A mounting screw, come loose from a bracket on the bridge, fell and danced brightly across the deck.


The screw and the deck are in a state of relative motion, Anthony thought. The screw and the deck are in a motion state of mind.


Wrong, he thought, there is no Other in the Dwellers' speech.


We, I and the screw and the deck, are feeling cold.


We, I and the Dweller below, are in a state of mutual incomprehension.