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26 Aug 2005 6:19 PM
berde_h
"Listening to the victims, I can't begin to understand the pain I inflicted
on these innocent people," Rudolph said in his statement, which he read afte
r 14 victims or their relatives read statements. Two other statements were r
ead into the record.
Gwedif sprouted a tentacle and placed it on my hand. "Carl," he said, "you'r
e not being asked to play God. Your part is about to be explained. If you re
fuse it, then we go back home, and our people plan a new way to try to conta
ct your people. That's all. We're not going to launch our ship into the sun
if we fail -- the drama you hear is part of the formal nature of High Speech
. You've been around me enough to know we don't usually talk like that. But
we do need your perspective on this. You know your people like we could neve
r know them. We need to see through you whether we can make contact with hum
ans here and now. Do you understand a little better now?"
"Well, they are still gelatinous cubes," Carl said, "which does limit their
ability to blend. But I think there's something else to it. I think they hav
e a plan already, but they wanted to see what I, and now you, would come up
with. For them, It's not simply a matter of the most efficient way of doing
something, otherwise Joshua would be addressing the UN right now. But there'
s that notion the Yherajk have of surrendering to the crucial moment, burned
right down into their reproductive strategies. I think that once again, the
y're surrendering the moment to us -- they're saying, here, we trust you to
take this, the most important moment in the history of both our races, and m
ake it work."
"Well, that was really nice of you to do that," Ramos said. "My little girl
is going to be thrilled right out of her socks. You're a real stand-up guy,
Mr. Stein."

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26 Aug 2005 8:11 PM
ML
> "Well, they are still gelatinous cubes,"

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ML

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