The Best of Damon Knight by Damon Knight

Author:Damon Knight
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: humor, science fiction, best short stories, aliens, cookbooks, sfwa grandmaster
Publisher: ReAnimus Press

It was in his head, hypnotically repeating: t, tau, t, tau, t tau t...

As he stood there, the outlines of the paper swelled and blurred, rhythmically. He felt as if the whole universe were breathing, slowly and gigantically, all one, the smallest atom and the farthest star.

c over R times the square root of three...

He had a curious drunken sense that he was standing outside, that he could reach in and give himself a push, or a twist—no, that wasn’t the word, either.... But something was happening; he felt it, half in terror and half in delight.

less c squared, t squared, equals...

An intolerable tension squeezed Rossi tight. Across the room the paper, too near the bulb, crisped and burned. And (as the tension twisted him somehow, finding a new direction for release) that was the last thing Rossi saw before flick, it was daylight, and the room was clotted with moist char, flick, someone was moving across it, too swift to flick. Flick. Flick. Flick, flick, flicketa-flicketa...

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