Time And Again
“And it was the only thing that was. All the rest of the situation had a vague, unrealistic, almost faerie character about it, as if it might be a bad dream and one would wake up any moment and for an agonizing second try to distinguish between drama and reality.
"That map over there," said Pringle, "puzzles you, no doubt. And there is every reason that it should. For it is a time map." He chuckled and rubbed the back of his head with a beefy hand.
"Tell the truth, I don't understand the thing myself. But Case does. Case is a military man and I'm just a propagandist and a propagandist doesn't have to know what he is talking about, just so he talks about it most convincingly. But a military man does. A military man has to know or someday he'll get behind an eight-ball and his life may depend on knowing." So that was it, thought Sutton. That was the thing that had bothered him. That was the clue that had slipped his mind. The thing he couldn't place about Case, the thing that he ...had told himself would explain Case, tell who he was and what he was and why he was here on this asteroid.MoreLess
"That map over there," said Pringle, "puzzles you, no doubt. And there is every reason that it should. For it is a time map." He chuckled and rubbed the back of his head with a beefy hand.
"Tell the truth, I don't understand the thing myself. But Case does. Case is a military man and I'm just a propagandist and a propagandist doesn't have to know what he is talking about, just so he talks about it most convincingly. But a military man does. A military man has to know or someday he'll get behind an eight-ball and his life may depend on knowing." So that was it, thought Sutton. That was the thing that had bothered him. That was the clue that had slipped his mind. The thing he couldn't place about Case, the thing that he ...had told himself would explain Case, tell who he was and what he was and why he was here on this asteroid.MoreLess
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