Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, No. 51 — page 54: what you’re looking at

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THE ENVIED solace we can offer until you have completely broken away from the old world.” Judith said: “I shall not come here again.” “The decision is your own, of course. This Panacea is designed only for those who cannot do without it.” “I shall see Warren, as I planned,” said Judith. “T am sorry to hear it. You will regret it. It will do neither of you any good.” Judith walked “stiffly out without replying. THEY MET IN THE dunes beyond the city, with the blue sea gleaming before them. There was nobody near. To the north, men and women on skis were skating out across the gently undulat- ing surface, but the sound of their voices was very faint. They were no more than flecks of colour on the dazz- ling water. Warren said: “I thought I’d never be able to find you again.” “TI did not mean you to do 53 om so. Not at first, that~is.” “So it was true what they told me: you really didn’t want to see me?” “I did my best to cut my- self off because I believed it was best.” Warren looked at _ the emotionless face, and found it incredibly alien. He shivered. He had somehow not expected to feel so remote. | He said: “What have you learnt? You’re still in favour of breaking the power of the Greys, I suppose?” “IT have learnt,’ said Judith slowly, “that the Greys derive no pleasure and no advantage from the exer- cise of power i “Now, wait a minute.” So she had been subjected to propaganda: that was what it was; he had suspected she might succumb! “IT have learnt,’ she went on inexorably, “that the life of the mind is not the beauti- ful thing philosophers have claimed. To be divorced from the body is not a wonderful comiclooks.cormn