I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon by Philip K. Dick

Author:Philip K. Dick [Dick, Philip K.]
Language: por
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: American, General, Fiction, Science Fiction, Short stories, Dick, Science Fiction - General, Philip K. - Prose & Criticism, Adventure, Anthologies, Fiction - General, Thrillers
ISBN: 9780385195676
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2013-07-20T03:00:00+00:00

Shelton. What did the name remind him of? Something in his far past, in his early years. Something precious, along with good wine and a pretty, gentle young woman making crepes in an old-fashioned kitchen. Aching memories; memories that hurt. Presently he stood by the bed in his hotel room, his suitcase open; he had begun to hang up his clothes, In the comer of the room, a TV hologram showed a newscaster; he ignored it, but, liking the sound of a human voice, he kept it on. Did I have any dreams? he asked himself. During these past ten years? His hand hurt. Gazing down, he saw a red welt, as if he had been stung, A bee stung me, he realized. But when? How? While I lay in cryonic suspension? Impossible, Yet he could see the welt and he could feel the pain. I better get something to put on it, he realized. There's undoubtedly a robot doctor in the hotel; it's a first-rate hotel. When the robot doctor had arrived and was treating the bee sting, Kemmings said, "I got this as punishment for killing the bird,"

"Really?" the robot doctor said,

"Everything that ever meant anything to me has been taken away from me," Kemmings said. "Martine, the poster-my little old house with the wine cellar, We had everything and now it's

gone. Martine left me because of the bird."

"The bird you killed," the robot doctor said.

"God punished me. He took away all that was precious to me because of my sin. It wasn't Dorky's sin; it was my sin." "But you were just a little boy," the robot doctor said. "How did you know that?" Kemmings said. He pulled his hand away from the robot doctor's grasp. "Something's wrong.

You shouldn't have known that."

"Your mother told me," the robot doctor said.

"My mother didn't know!"

The robot doctor said, "She figured it out. There was no way the cat could have reached the bird without your help."

"So all the time that I was growing up she knew. But she never said anything."

"You can forget about it," the robot doctor said.

Kemmings said, "I don't think you exist. There is no possible way that you could know these things. I'm still in cryonic suspension and the ship is still feeding me my own buried memories, So I won't become psychotic from sensory deprivation."

"You could hardly have a memory of completing the trip."

"Wish fulfillment, then. It's the same thing. I'll prove it to you. Do you have a screwdriver?"

"Why?"

Kemmings said, "I'll remove the back of the TV set and you'll see; there's nothing inside it; no components, no parts, no chassis-nothing, "

"I don't have a screwdriver."

"A small knife, then. I can see one in your surgical supply bag," Bending, Kemmings lifted up a small scalpel. "This will do. If I show you, will you believe me?"

"If there's nothing inside the TV cabinet-"

Squatting down, Kemmings removed the screws holding the back panel of the TV set in place. The panel came loose and he set it down on the floor.

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