（外文电子版资料）Simak, Clifford D - Sunspot Purge.pdfVIP

file:///G|/rah/Clifford%20Simak%20-%20Sunspot%20Purge.txt Title : Sunspot Purge Author : Clifford D. Simak Original copyright year: 1940 Genre : science fiction Comments : to my knowledge, this is the only available e-text of this book Source : scanned and OCR-read from a paperback edition with Xerox TextBridge Pro 9.0, proofread in MS Word 2000. Date of e-text : February 16, 2000 Prepared by : Anada Sucka Anticopyright 2000. All rights reversed. ====================================================================== Sunspot Purge Clifford D. Simak I was sitting around, waiting for the boy to bring up the first batch of papers from the pressroom. I had my feet up on the desk, my hat pulled down over my eyes, feeling pretty sick. I couldnt get the picture of the fellow hitting the sidewalk out of my mind. Twenty storeys is a long way to jump. When hed hit hed just sort of spattered and it was very messy. The fool had cavorted and pranced around up on that ledge since early morning, four long hours, before he took the dive. Herb Harding and Al Jarvey and a couple of other _Globe_ photographers had gone out with me, and I listened to them figure out the way theyd co-operate on the shots. If the bird jumped, they knew theyd each have just time enough to expose one plate. So they got their schedules worked out beforehand. Al would take the first shot with the telescopic lens as he made the jump. Joe would catch him halfway down. Harry would snap him just before he hit, and Herb would get the moment of impact on the sidewalk. It gave me the creeps, listening to them. But anyhow, it worked and the _Globe_ had a swell sequence panel of the jump to go with my story. We knew the _Standard_, even if it got that sidewalk shot, wouldnt use it, for the _Standard_ claimed to be a family newspaper and made a lot of being a sheet fit for anyone to r