Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 53 — page 42: what you’re looking at

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WITHOUT LOVE some fighting,” interrupted Celeste. She turned to her sister. “Do you think I’m going to stand by while this man makes a fool of you? I don’t care what you do about the other two, but Alcott should beremoved, definitely.” ““Yousee,’’ I said to Alisoun. “Even your little sister is under the influence of love. Only in her case it. manifests itself as jealousy. She may be more stable, but she is also more jealous, jealous of you.” “Keep talking, mister!” snapped Celeste. “Don’t worry, I shall. And while I’m at it, I might as well admit that now I’m quite ready to admit that I was just as condescending to you as you were to me. I always looked down on you as barbarians, but now I’m will- ing to admit my error, and I beg your forgiveness.” “‘That’s darn white of you.” Celeste flounced out of the room. Alisoun looked at me with big amber eyes and smiled. “T’m afraid you’ve made your- 41 self an enemy there. She’ll never forgive you for dumping her this afternoon.” “That doesn’t bother me now. There are bigger things in the scale. We have to work this thing out together, and you can count on my full co-operation.” “T’m very happy to hear that.”’ The aide was examining my ’corder with interest. “‘An automatic peacemaker, eh? A pity we can’t keep it run- ning for ever. What will happen when the record ends?” “Nothing much,” I said. “You are highly intelligent and so you can readily syn- thesize what you cannot ex- perience emotionally. The Greeks had a word for it, agape, love of the soul, true love. Love is such a delicate thing that it is easily forgotten when you are trying to build a world from scratch. In fact, I doubt very much that you ever knew you lacked it, never having experienced it.” comiclooks.con