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    Charley de Milo
    Charley de Milo
    Charley de Milo
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    Charley de Milo

    By Ed Emshwiller and Laurence M. Janifer

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Charley de Milo - Ed Emshwiller

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Charley de Milo, by

      Laurence Mark Janifer AKA Larry M. Harris

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: Charley de Milo

      Author: Laurence Mark Janifer AKA Larry M. Harris

      Illustrator: Ed Emshwiller

      Release Date: December 18, 2007 [EBook #23889]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHARLEY DE MILO ***

      Produced by Greg Weeks, Bruce Albrecht, Stephen Blundell

      and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at

      http://www.pgdp.net

      CHARLEY

      de MILO

      By LARRY M. HARRIS

      Illustrated by Emsh

      It isn't at all obvious—at first thought—that having two perfectly good, usable arms could be a real handicap to a man....

      "To be, or not to be—that is the question.

      Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer

      The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,

      Or to take arms ..."

      Hamlet, Act III, Scene I

      he rocket was on the way up, but Professor Lightning didn't seem to care. Outside the cooktent Wrout flapped his arms and, on that signal, Seaman started up the big electric band, whooping it up with John Philip Sousa for openers, while all over the midway the lights snapped on, big whites and yellows, reds, greens, purples and dusky violets framing, in a titillating dimness, the front flap of the girlie tent. The outside talkers were busy outside the spectacle tents like Wicks' Hell Drivers, Biggest Auto Show in Fifty States—outside the grind shows, the eats, the rides: Here and now, for the fourth part of one single dollar bill, the most amazing ... ... Terrifying and strange beings from the farthest reaches of the Earth who will exhibit ... ... Dances learned at the Court of the Sultan, Ay-rab dances right here, right on the inside, for only—

      And the crowd, filing in, laughed and chattered and shrieked on swooping rides, the Great Crane, the Space Race, the Merry-Go-Round and the Horses, threw down money to win a kewpie doll, a Hawaiian lei, a real life-size imitation scale model of Luna in three real dimensions ... living it up on the first show, while the rocket climbed on and out, and bubbled excitement in the blood.

      The rocket was up: the carnival was open. But Professor Lightning didn't seem to care. He sat in the cooktent with his eyes hooded and hidden under the unshaded glow of a hundred-and-fifty-watt Forever bulb, while Charley de Milo fidgeted his feet, and listened, and tried to cut the old man off.

      Look, professor, he said nervously, why don't we talk about it later? Table it, till after the show? He scratched the side of his head with his left foot. I got to go on in a couple of minutes, he said. I can hear the talker going now. I got to—

      Forget the show, Professor Lightning said. His voice was flatter and harsher, and his face more tense, than Charley ever remembered seeing it. The show isn't important.

      Charley blinked, trying to understand. But, Professor—

      Listen to me, Professor Lightning said. The world is at the beginning of a new cultural revolution. Since the Cold War melted, and freedom of inquiry and research began to live again on both sides of the old Iron Curtain, science has begun a new Renaissance. The cultural interflow has—

      Please, professor, Charley said miserably, rubbing his toes together. There isn't much time before I got to go on. And you ought to be inside the Science tent, too, because any minute—

      If I am not in the tent, Professor Lightning said calmly, "I will not appear in the show. It does not

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