Sturgeon, Theodore - Venus Plus X by Venus Plus X

Author:Venus Plus X [X, Venus Plus]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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entire into his mouth, which makes the bridge of his nose ache and by which Davy allows he has been robbed. This is not a crisis after all because the lights dim and the screen flares up again for the second feature.

“Something for Davy after all,” says Herb after the second minute. “Why don’t they run the Western first and spare our kids looking at that kind of you know.”

“Sit up on my knee, honey,” Jeanette says. “Can you see all right?”

Davy sees all right the fight at the cliff edge, the falling body, the old man lying broken at the foot of the cliff, the evil cowpoke bending over him, the gush of good bright red blood from the old man’s mouth: “I’m … Chuck … Fritch … help me!”; the evil cowpoke’s laughing, “You’re Chuck Fritch are you; that’s all I want to know!”; his drawing of the .45, the roaring shots, the twitch of the old man’s body as the slugs rip into him and his agonized grunts, the grin on the evil cowboy’s face as he stomps the old man’s face only they keep that specific off camera, but afterward you can watch him kick the body the rest of the way down into the canyon.

Flashback to a dirt street with duckboard sidewalks. Herb says thoughtfully, “Yeah, 111 call ‘em tomorrow, that’s what 111 do, ask ‘em why they don’t put the Westerns on first.”

D HEY WENT TO WOMBEW’S

house, the dooryard of which was surrounded by strong and intricate basketwork, which was essentially nothing more than poles driven into the ground and vines woven around them; Wombew, a hawk-nosed young adult, showed Charlie how this was not merely a fence, but was integral with the house, for the walls were built of it too, and then plastered with a clayey mud from the neighborhood - the tuneless mud-and-wattie construction - which when quite dry had been coated with a species of whitewash which was not white, but violet. The roof was thatched and planted with the thick-matted, mowing grass found all through Ledom. The house was lovely, especially in its interior planning, for mud-and-watde need make no compromise with standard lumber lengths, and

the more curved the walls, the more stable they are, just as a curved piece of paper may be stood on edge. Grocid and Nasive and their children came along and helped show Charlie Wombew’s treasures.

They went to Aborp’s house, which had been built of rammed earth, wooden forms having been set up and the moistened earth put between them and compacted by hand with the end of a heavy timber wielded by four strong Ledom standing on the top of the forms. Once it had dried, the forms could be removed. Like the wattle building, this too could be designed very flexibly. Grocid and Nasive and their children and Wombew’s children and Wombew came along.

They went to Obtre’s house, which was made of cut stone, built up in square modules. Each module had its domed roof, which was made with great simplicity.

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