Martin H. Greenberg & Isaac Asimov & C. Waugh (ed) by Catastrophes

Author:Catastrophes
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2011-09-03T18:19:44+00:00

them lay a vast, circular, trembling brightness: the sun's

light on the surface of the sea.

We are here. When we break through the bright circle

into life, the water will break and stream white down

the white sides, of the towers, and run down the steep

streets back into the sea. The water will glitter in dark

hair, on the eyelids of dark eyes, and dry to a thin white

film of salt.

We are here.

Whose voice? Who called to us?

He was with me for twelve days. On January 28th the

'crats came from the Bureau of Health, Education and Wel-

fare and said that since he was receiving Unemployment

Compensation while suffering from an untreated illness, the

government must look after him and restore him to health,

because health is the inalienable right of the citizens of a

democracy. He refused to sign the consent forms, so the chief

health officer signed them. He refused to get up, so two of

the policemen pulled him up off the bed. He started to try to

fight them. The chief health officer pulled his gun and said

that if he continued to struggle he would shoot him for re-

sisting welfare, and arrest me for conspiracy to defraud the

government. The man who was holding my arms behind my

back said they could always arrest me for unreported preg-

nancy with intent to form a nuclear family. At that Simon

stopped trying to get free. It was really all he was trying to

do, not to fight them, just to get his arms free. He looked at

me, and they took him out.

He is in the federal hospital in Salem. I have not been

able to find out whether he is in the regular hospital or the

mental wards.

It was on'the radio again yesterday, about the rising land

masses in the South Atlantic and the Western Pacific. At

Max's the other night I saw a TV special explaining about

geophysical stresses and subsidence and faults. The U.S.

Geodetic Service is doing a lot of advertising around town,

the most common one is a big billboard that says IT'S NOT

OUR FAULT! with a picture of a beaver pointing to a sche-

matic map that shows how even if Oregon has a major earth-

quake and subsidence as California did last month, it will

not affect Portland, or only the western suburbs perhaps. The

news also said that they plan to halt the tidal waves in Flor-

ida by dropping nuclear bombs where Miami was. Then they

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