【国外英文文学】All That Goes.doc

PAGE PAGE 1 【国外英文文学】All That Goes Title: All That Goes Up Author: Kirby Brooks Illustrator: Smith Release Date: June 10, 2010 [EBook #32765] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ALL THAT GOES UP *** Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at Transcribers Note: This etext was produced from Space Science Fiction May 1953. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed. all that goes up BY KIRBY BROOKS ILLUSTRATED BY SMITH At fifty, a man should be too old to go around flying off the handle, or wandering around on the ceiling. But what could a man do when he had a son who insisted on being a genius? * * * * * For a man my age, the middle 50s, life has a number of compensations. Therere children--we have two; theres a good wife, and Im certainly blessed in that respect with Mary; and theres the joy of coming home, slipping on my slippers, having a good dinner, then relaxing with coffee and a pipe. Theres no compensation for being plastered to the ceiling. But, more of that later. The after dinner coffee with a dash of rum in it, tasted very good, and so did the pipe. The meal was satisfying too. Thank goodness for that meal, because it was the last decent one Ive had for quite some time. Oh, Ive eaten all right, but youd have to stretch your imagination to call any of it a meal. Can you picture eating food that keeps trying to move away from your face? That is, if you can keep the plate from moving away too? As I say, Mary and I had just finished dinner, when Jim, our 22-year-old gangly son, whos home on summer vacation from MIT, called me. Can you come here a minute, Dad? Sure, I said, heading down the hall to his combination laboratory, dar