Second Variety And Other Stories - Plot & Excerpts
She gazed at her husband in unspeakable horror. "You're -- you're hideous!" she wailed. Lester Herrick continued working, arranging heaps of notes and graphs in precise piles. "Hideous," he stated, "is a value judgment. It contains no factual information." He sent a report tape on Centauran parasitic life whizzing through the desk scanner. "Merely an opinion. An expression of emotion, nothing more." Jill stumbled back to the kitchen. Listlessly, she waved her hand to trip the stove into activity. Conveyor belts in the wall hummed to life, hurrying the food from the underground storage lockers for the evening meal. She turned to face her husband one last time. "Not even a little while?" she begged. "Not even --" "Not even for a month. When he comes you can tell him. If you haven't the courage, I'll do it. I can't have a child running around here. I have too much work to do. This report on Betelgeuse XI is due in ten days." Lester dropped a spool on Fomalhautan fossil implements into the scanner.
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