Pirate Utopia by Bruce Sterling

Author:Bruce Sterling [Sterling, Bruce]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf, azw3
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy, Historical, Science Fiction, General, Action & Adventure
ISBN: 9781616962364
Google: mG1_jwEACAAJ
Amazon: 1616962364
Publisher: Tachyon Publications
Published: 2016-09-29T04:00:00+00:00

Despite the great change in their personal circumstances, Secondari still valued the friendship of Frau Piffer. Frau Piffer’s homespun wisdom, her intimate knowledge of Fiuman customs and habits, was of great use to Secondari. She had often spared him the annoying trouble of shooting people. Secondari knew that he was feared and hated.

After all, this was obviously the basic purpose of a “Minister of Vengeance Weapons.” Frau Piffer, by contrast to everyone else, did not fear him. She was infallibly kind to him. She had looked after him, even nursed him and fed him when he had been at his weakestand his worst. This was more than his own family had ever done for him.

Times had changed. Lorenzo Secondari was no longer a weak, hungry, and wounded ex-soldier. Thanks to the hospitality, the decent food, the balmy weather, and the healing salt air of Fiume, he was healthy and strong.

Although he would never hear well again, he was a powerful, war-hardened, even ferocious, armed revolutionary. So people were right to fear him. Frau Piffer, though, was also a successful revolutionary. Frau Piffer was the only woman he knew who could talk simply and frankly to him about work.

Though he sometimes thought of going back to Turin—he had left important things undone, back in Italy—he could not abandon the many fine things that he and Frau Piffer had achieved together.

Understanding this situation, Secondari resolved to renounce his Italian citizenship. He arranged to meet Frau Piffer in her dazzling new office at the Flying Radio Torpedo Factory. He told her that he, too, wanted to become a citizen of the Regency of Carnaro, like herself. He told her that he, too, wanted to become a model of Futurism, as it was properly lived.

He asked her to arrange the paperwork, for she excelled at such things, and she agreed. He and Frau Piffer would become two ideal Carnarians. When all was said and done, he was an engineer, while she was a manufacturer. A man and woman occupying those two roles had a proper need for an intimate understanding.

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