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Avram Davidson: Love Called This Thing Nan Peter Baker Four This Is Nan Peter Baker How do You Receive Me Over and now a word from Our Sponsor interviewed in his office the Commissioner said but Ruth I can explain everything there is nothing to explain David its all too obvious Im Bert Peel Officer and this is my brother Harry a cold front coming down from Canada and weve got to get word to the Fort colon congestion is absolutely unnecessary in men and women over forty at any one of the ninety-one offices of the Clinton National Bank and Trust... Embarasse de richesse, the French count had said when he looked at all the pretty girls on the high school swim team, and explained what it meant in English. Penny wasnt really in love with him; she only thought she was, after pre- tending she was, to make David jealous, which she certainly did. But after the count gently explained to her, she and David made up just in time for the Spring From, which made the distant observer very happy. At least he thought it did. What is happy? he often asked himself. Maybe just pretend. You never really loved me Rick it was just a pretense wasnt it? Like the distant observer thinking of himself as him when, really, he knew nowhad known longhe was only an it. its about time we faced up to reality, Alison. Yes. It was about time. We cant go on like this. No, certainly not. It was time. In the beginning, there was no time. There was sight here dark, there bright. He did not know then, of course and how long had then lasted? Memory did not tell that the bright was stars. And there was soundwhispering, crackling, shrilling. What do you mean. Professor, when you say that outer space is not a place of silence? And then (he knew now that this then was about fifty years ago) there had begun a new kind of sound. Not steady, but interrupted, and interrupted according to patterns. Awareness had stirred, gradually, and wonder. He knew later that this was wireles