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.It's taken over thespace normally occupied by body image, and as a result we can donothing to mend your body.Any operation big enough to help you would also bebig enough to kill you.''Well, Danny?' said Singh when they had returned to his office.Thetelepathist, whose specialty was the discovery and training of new members ofhis kind, slowly shook his head.'He has no reason to co-operate,' he said.'My God, do you blame him? Thinkabout his plight! His face, every time he looks in the mirror -like an idiot child about to vomit! What compensation is it after twenty yearsof that to become a telepathist? I've picked out things from his mind.' Hepaused, swallowing hard.'Consider! He was first overheard from orbit, by a space communicator, sopotentially his "voice" is the loudest in history.But his real voice hasnever broken - he has this silly castrato pipe! He never lost his milk-teeth,for God's sake -just as well, in view of his hemophilia, but think what thatdid to his psyche.It takes him three months to grow enough hair to visit thebarber.He's never even begun to have a beard.As to sexuality, he's acquired superficial attitudes and never experienced theemotions; what that'll do to him the first time he contacts someone with a badsexual problem, God knows.''Can we tackle that?' Singh suggested.Page 30ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html'Out of the question!' Waldemar snapped.'You can't seriously want to make hiscondition worse - and believe me, you would, if you made him sexuallycompetent with hormones and left him in this malformed body.Mark you, I'm notsure you'd succeed; his body image is so far from normal I daren't guesswhether he can respond to hormones or not.''What I was thinking was -' put in Christine Bakwa, and broke off.Waldemar glanced at her.'You were wondering if I could take his mind apart and put it together again,him? To clear out this terrible jealousy he's conceived for his girl-friend?''Yes, I was.' The neurologist made a vague gesture.'I see why he's soresentful - I mean, fitting her up with speech and hearing was so easy he mustsubconsciously disbelieve that helping him is impossible, and the very factthat he made it a condition of coming with you suggests that he's got highempathy.''Granted,' Waldemar agreed.'Only-he's powerful.''I thought you managed to control him when you first located him.''Briefly.I'd never have got in at all but that he was suffering terribly fromthe knowledge that he'd caused the pain of the men in the 'copterwhich crashed.And he broke my hold eventually.No, in cold blood he couldresist any attempt made to interfere with his mind, and I'm not sure thetelepathist who attempted it would retain his sanity.'There was a hollow silence.It was broken by a soft buzz from a phone onSingh's desk.Heavily he moved to depress the attention switch.'Yes?''Mr Hemmikaini is here for you, Dr.Singh,' a voice reported.'Oh -! Oh, very well.Send him up." Singh let go the switch and glanced at hiscompanions.'That's one of the Special Assistants to theUN Secretary General coming in.I guess I have to worry about what he wantsrather than spending all my time thinking of Howson.But with the potentialHowson represents.'Getting to his feet, Waldemar finished the sentence for him.'One could wish,'he muttered, 'that the rest of the damned world would stop nagging at us for afew days and let us get through the wall of his resentment! Somebody ought towork it out some time - whether we telepathists have caused more bother thanwe've saved.'He gave Singh a crooked grin and went out.10Hemmikaini was a large, round-faced man with fair hair cut extremely short andvery pink skin.He looked like what he was - a successful and dedicatedexecutive.It was only the nature of his duties that was unusual.After giving Singh a plump-fingered hand and setting his black portfolio onthe corner of the desk, he dropped into a chair and leaned back.'Well, you know why I'm here, Dr.Singh [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]