The Very Best of Barry N Malzberg by Barry N Malzberg

Author:Barry N Malzberg [Malzberg, Barry N]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction, fantasy
ISBN: 9781933065557
Publisher: NonStop Press
Published: 2013-06-20T00:53:00.344300+00:00

“It isn’t really You,” I say grimly. “It’s him in another form. You’ve assumed another shape in order to tempt me. Get thee behind me, Satan.”

“Oh come on,” He says with a splendidly graceful gesture. “Really Quartermain, if you’ve gotten to the 39th day of this you ought to have more sophistication than that. We’re working together; we’re a team.”

I lick my burning lips. “Is that supposed to unsettle me?” I say. “I knew that all along and it’s merely another aspect of doubt. A Cult Leader must be able to subsume himself in mystery. It doesn’t change anything. I’m not unsettled at all.”

“Ah well,” He says, “ah well,” and rises from his crouch. “You are of strong stuff, Quartermain, or at least of stronger stuff than most of them, but if this doesn’t unsettle you, the ass certainly will. No creature of the twenty-second century is really equipped to ride upon an ass. For any considerable distance to be sure.”

‘Til deal with that when the time comes,” I say. “Right now I have another day on this bloody desert.”

“And a very good day to you indeed”He says, and disappears, leaving me to my various cogitations and moanings which, considering the thirst, heat, starvation, pain, and humility which have been invoked upon me, are considerable. It is very hard to take a sense of dignity from all of this, but astonishments, as I have perhaps brought Him to understand, are few.

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