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his thoughts across the ages to her.
He spent the day with Carl, experimenting with the tempora tube, trying
to find out what it would do, trying to explain it. He stopped long enough in
the afternoon to keep one schedule with Rena. Reassured, he continued the lab
work.
The following morning he arrived at seven and locked himself in a small
screen room. He hung a do-not-disturb sign on the outside and put a pair of
cans on his ears, just for appearance. He sat there with a pad on his knees
and Rena's pen in his hand.
It came at eight.
George, darling, this is it. They want me to go in just one more week.
I can't ask for more time without arousing suspicion. There's no excuse I can
give to hold back longer. If only I could know that you are there!
I'll have to give you a lot of the math involved in order for you to
understand how to construct and calibrate the machine. I'm trying to remember
accurately how far you can go. I'll simplify all I can, To begin with --
As the stream of abstruse equations began to pour forth faster than his
mind could follow he felt sick inside. New concepts, new manipulations that he
had never dreamed of appeared on the paper. A week, she said. Did she have the
faintest comprehension of the magnitude of the task she was setting up for
him?
He wrote steadily through the working hours. Once Carl banged on the
door and George waved him away, pointing to the cans on his ears. Carl yanked
at the door but finally gave up.
Fearful of missing an important formulation George kept the pen moving
steadily. His arm and fingers began to ache. He wondered how long Rena could
go on steadily without interruption. It required an effort and clarity of
thought far greater than that of ordinary speech, she had told him.
At noon, she paused.
That's about half of what you'll need of the math. You must be tired
writing for so long. It tires me greatly because I have to maintain the
highest possible level of visualization in order to penetrate the block
adequately if at all.
Before we rest let me give you a partial material list to mull over and
begin accumulating if possible, Most of the electronic equipment you can get
in your labs, I'm sure. Full details of procurement will have to be up to you,
of course, but I've simplified everything as much as possible.
Swiftly an itemized list began appearing beneath the other writing. As
it lengthened, George uttered an audible groan.
There were enough components there to build a GCA. And he was supposed
to do it alone-in a week.
-a half hour, George. There is so much to do.
He laid down the cans and leafed through the sheets he had covered
since morning. He had two junior engineers working on his current project,
which was about wiped up. He could put them on it, he thought, without their
knowing anything of what it was for. They weren't very bright boys anyway. He
ought to have help on the more technical end-but that was out.
He could charge some components to his project and get the rest from
the junk room. With only a week to go it would take that long for the paper to
go through the mill, for somebody to discover there was monkey business going
on. He made a couple of separate lists and stepped out to call one of his
juniors.
"Jack! I want you to start expediting this stuff. Here's a list for
Marvin, too. Clean up our large screen room this afternoon and start gathering
this stuff together in there. We've got a hot project."
Jack grinned. He had never known George when he didn't have a "hot"
project.
The model-shop work would be the toughest. There was a large order of
metal stock, sheets and bars on the list. That meant machine work. Sykes would
start asking embarrassing questions before much of that came through.
But his risks were puny beside Rena's, he thought. He wondered what
they would do to her if they ever found out.
He glanced hastily at the clock. The time was nearly up and he'd had
nothing to eat. He called to a lab boy. "Get the cafeteria to put me up a
gallon of coffee, will you? I've got some concentrated thinking to do this
afternoon."
Rena kept at it steadily. She made no pause for side remarks-only the
steady unending flow of technical information came from the pen. Quitting time
at the plant came but she gave no indication of letting up. George's whole
body ached from the strain of sitting there steadily, his only movement the
guiding of the pen which he didn't dare stop for an instant.
She gave him fifteen minutes rest at six, then resumed and went
steadily until midnight. She had completed the math, sketched the main layouts
and begun assembly instructions of some of the simpler sub-units.
She stopped abruptly with only a word that she would resume in the
morning. George guessed at the deep fatigue that must have overtaken her in
that long day of concentration.
It seemed hopeless to try to absorb that mass of material and build the
intricate machine in so short a time. The one ray of hope lay in the assembly
instructions which she had begun. They were in a form simple enough for Jack
and Marvin to handle. [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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his thoughts across the ages to her.
He spent the day with Carl, experimenting with the tempora tube, trying
to find out what it would do, trying to explain it. He stopped long enough in
the afternoon to keep one schedule with Rena. Reassured, he continued the lab
work.
The following morning he arrived at seven and locked himself in a small
screen room. He hung a do-not-disturb sign on the outside and put a pair of
cans on his ears, just for appearance. He sat there with a pad on his knees
and Rena's pen in his hand.
It came at eight.
George, darling, this is it. They want me to go in just one more week.
I can't ask for more time without arousing suspicion. There's no excuse I can
give to hold back longer. If only I could know that you are there!
I'll have to give you a lot of the math involved in order for you to
understand how to construct and calibrate the machine. I'm trying to remember
accurately how far you can go. I'll simplify all I can, To begin with --
As the stream of abstruse equations began to pour forth faster than his
mind could follow he felt sick inside. New concepts, new manipulations that he
had never dreamed of appeared on the paper. A week, she said. Did she have the
faintest comprehension of the magnitude of the task she was setting up for
him?
He wrote steadily through the working hours. Once Carl banged on the
door and George waved him away, pointing to the cans on his ears. Carl yanked
at the door but finally gave up.
Fearful of missing an important formulation George kept the pen moving
steadily. His arm and fingers began to ache. He wondered how long Rena could
go on steadily without interruption. It required an effort and clarity of
thought far greater than that of ordinary speech, she had told him.
At noon, she paused.
That's about half of what you'll need of the math. You must be tired
writing for so long. It tires me greatly because I have to maintain the
highest possible level of visualization in order to penetrate the block
adequately if at all.
Before we rest let me give you a partial material list to mull over and
begin accumulating if possible, Most of the electronic equipment you can get
in your labs, I'm sure. Full details of procurement will have to be up to you,
of course, but I've simplified everything as much as possible.
Swiftly an itemized list began appearing beneath the other writing. As
it lengthened, George uttered an audible groan.
There were enough components there to build a GCA. And he was supposed
to do it alone-in a week.
-a half hour, George. There is so much to do.
He laid down the cans and leafed through the sheets he had covered
since morning. He had two junior engineers working on his current project,
which was about wiped up. He could put them on it, he thought, without their
knowing anything of what it was for. They weren't very bright boys anyway. He
ought to have help on the more technical end-but that was out.
He could charge some components to his project and get the rest from
the junk room. With only a week to go it would take that long for the paper to
go through the mill, for somebody to discover there was monkey business going
on. He made a couple of separate lists and stepped out to call one of his
juniors.
"Jack! I want you to start expediting this stuff. Here's a list for
Marvin, too. Clean up our large screen room this afternoon and start gathering
this stuff together in there. We've got a hot project."
Jack grinned. He had never known George when he didn't have a "hot"
project.
The model-shop work would be the toughest. There was a large order of
metal stock, sheets and bars on the list. That meant machine work. Sykes would
start asking embarrassing questions before much of that came through.
But his risks were puny beside Rena's, he thought. He wondered what
they would do to her if they ever found out.
He glanced hastily at the clock. The time was nearly up and he'd had
nothing to eat. He called to a lab boy. "Get the cafeteria to put me up a
gallon of coffee, will you? I've got some concentrated thinking to do this
afternoon."
Rena kept at it steadily. She made no pause for side remarks-only the
steady unending flow of technical information came from the pen. Quitting time
at the plant came but she gave no indication of letting up. George's whole
body ached from the strain of sitting there steadily, his only movement the
guiding of the pen which he didn't dare stop for an instant.
She gave him fifteen minutes rest at six, then resumed and went
steadily until midnight. She had completed the math, sketched the main layouts
and begun assembly instructions of some of the simpler sub-units.
She stopped abruptly with only a word that she would resume in the
morning. George guessed at the deep fatigue that must have overtaken her in
that long day of concentration.
It seemed hopeless to try to absorb that mass of material and build the
intricate machine in so short a time. The one ray of hope lay in the assembly
instructions which she had begun. They were in a form simple enough for Jack
and Marvin to handle. [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]