The Field of Vision by Ursula K. Le Guin

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2016-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

Bernard Decelis and his wife called Hughes every couple of days on the telephone, though they were prevented by the quarantine from coming to see him. On the 27th of July Hughes and Decelis had a significant conversation concerning the so-called room, site D of the Psyche XIV survey. Decelis said, “If I don’t get on the Sixteen team and see that damned place, I’ll flip.”

“Seeing is believing,” Hughes remarked. He was not as excitable as he had been earlier, tending to be terse and rather bitter.

“Listen, Gerry. Was there ever machinery in those pigeonholes?”

“No.”

“Hah! There’s a definite answer! I thought you wouldn’t assert anything about Site D except its incomprehensibility to the human mind. You softening up?”

“No. Learning.”

“Learning what?”

“How to see.”

After a pause Decelis asked cautiously, “See what?”

“Site D. Since it’s all I can see.”

“You mean, that’s what you—when your eyes are open—”

“No.” Hughes spoke wearily and with reluctance. “It’s more complex than that. I don’t see Site D. I see . . . the world in the light cast by Site D. . . . A new light. The man you ought to ask is Joe Temski. Or, listen, did you ever run the pigeonholes through Algie, like you said?”

“I had trouble setting up the program.”

“I’ll bet you did,” Hughes said with a short laugh. “Send the stuff on up here. I’ll set it up. Blindfolded.”

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