The Pollinators of Eden by John Boyd

Author:John Boyd [Boyd, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

It took them four days to get Hal’s notes in order, but he wrote the first draft of the letter all by himself, and he read it aloud to her in the office with gestures:

From: Director of Cystology, Bureau of Exotic Plants, Department of Agriculture.

To: Chief of the Bureau of Linguistics, Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

Subject: Student request for cryptographic-sound analysis. Forwarded without comment.

Reference: Administrative Directive 38753-42, Office of the President of the United States.

It is requested that enclosed tapes of sounds made by the exotic plant, Tulipa caronus, habitat Flora, be analyzed for phrase repetitions, dissonance patterns, or coherent frequency changes. This request is made to establish the validity of interplant communication based on the nonrandom ejection of seed from seedpods and from the plant’s control of the pollinating agent. Pertinent copies of log sheets enclosed.

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