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+Title: Blessed Are the Meek
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+Author: G.C. Edmondson
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+Illustrator: Freas
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+Release Date: December 7, 2007 [EBook #23762]
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+Language: English
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+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+BLESSED ARE THE MEEK
+
+
+    _Every strength is a weakness, and every weakness is a strength.
+    And when the Strong start smashing each other's strength ... the
+    Weak may turn out to be, instead, the Wise._
+
+
+
+BY G. C. EDMONDSON
+
+Illustrated by Freas
+
+
+The strangers landed just before dawn, incinerating a good li of bottom
+land in the process. Their machines were already busily digging up the
+topsoil. The Old One watched, squinting into the morning sun. He
+sighed, hitched up his saffron robes and started walking down toward
+the strangers.
+
+Griffin turned, not trying to conceal his excitement. "You're the
+linguist, see what you can get out of him."
+
+"I might," Kung Su ventured sourly, "if you'd go weed the air machine
+or something. This is going to be hard enough without a lot of
+kibitzers cramping my style and scaring Old Pruneface here half to
+death."
+
+"I see your point," Griffin answered. He turned and started back toward
+the diggings. "Let me know it you make any progress with the local
+language." He stopped whistling and strove to control the jauntiness of
+his gait. _Must be the lower gravity and extra oxygen_, he thought. _I
+haven't bounced along like this for thirty years. Nice place to settle
+down if some promoter doesn't turn it into an old folks home._ He sighed
+and glanced over the diggings. The rammed earth walls were nearly
+obliterated by now. _Nothing lost_, he reflected. _It's all on tape
+and they're no different from a thousand others at any rate._
+
+                     *      *      *      *      *
+
+Griffin opened a door in the transparent bubble from which Albanez was
+operating the diggers. "Anything?" he inquired.
+
+"Nothing so far," Albanez reported. "What's the score on this job? I
+missed the briefing."
+
+"How'd you make out on III, by the way?"
+
+"Same old stuff, pottery shards and the usual junk. See it once and
+you've seen it all."
+
+"Well," Griffin began, "it looks like the same thing here again. We've
+pretty well covered this system and you know how it is. Rammed earth
+walls here and there, pottery shards, flint, bronze and iron artifacts
+and that's it. They got to the iron age on every planet and then
+blooey."
+
+"Artifacts all made for humanoid hands I suppose. I wonder if they were
+close enough to have crossbred with humans."
+
+"I couldn't say," Griffin observed dryly. "From the looks of Old
+Pruneface I doubt if we'll ever find a human female with sufficiently
+detached attitude to find out."
+
+"Who's Pruneface?"
+
+"He came ambling down out of the hills this morning and walked into
+camp."
+
+"You mean you've actually found a live humanoid?"
+
+"There's got to be a first time for everything." Griffin opened the
+door and started climbing the hill toward Kung Su and Pruneface.
+
+                     *      *      *      *      *
+
+"Well, have you gotten beyond the 'me, Charlie' stage yet?" Griffin
+inquired at breakfast two days later.
+
+Kung Su gave an inscrutable East Los Angeles smile. "As a matter of
+fact, I'm a little farther along. Joe is amazingly cooeperative."
+
+"Joe?"
+
+"Spell it Chou if you want to be exotic. It's still pronounced Joe and
+that's his name. The language is monosyllabic and tonal. I happen to
+know a similar language."
+
+"You mean this humanoid speaks Chinese?" Griffin was never sure whether
+Kung was ribbing him or not.
+
+"Not Chinese. The vocabulary is different but the syntax and phonemes
+are nearly identical. I'll speak it perfectly in a week. It's just a
+question of memorizing two or three thousand new words. Incidentally,
+Joe wants to know why you're digging up his bottom land. He was all set
+to flood it today."
+
+"Don't tell me he plants rice!" Griffin exclaimed.
+
+"I don't imagine it's rice, but it needs flooding whatever it is."
+
+"Ask him how many humanoids there are on this planet."
+
+"I'm way ahead of you, Griffin. He says there are only a few thousand
+left. The rest were all destroyed in a war with the barbarians."
+
+"Barbarians?"
+
+"They're extinct."
+
+"How many races were there?"
+
+"I'll get to that if you'll stop interrupting," Kung rejoined testily.
+"Joe says there are only two kinds of people, his own dark,
+straight-haired kind and the barbarians. They have curly hair, white
+skin and round eyes. You'd pass for a barbarian, according to Joe, only
+you don't have a faceful of hair. He wants to know how things are going
+on the other planets."
+
+"I suppose that's my cue to break into a cold sweat and feel a
+premonition of disaster." Griffin tried to smile and almost made it.
+
+"Not necessarily, but it seems our iron-age man is fairly well informed
+in extraplanetary affairs."
+
+"I guess I'd better start learning the language."
+
+                     *      *      *      *      *
+
+Thanks to the spade work Kung Su had done in preparing hypno-recordings,
+Griffin had a working knowledge of the Rational People's language
+eleven days later when he sat down to drink herb infused hot water with
+Joe and other Old Ones in the low-roofed wooden building around which
+clustered a village of two hundred humanoids. He fidgeted through
+interminable ritualistic cups of hot water. Eventually Joe hid his
+hands in the sleeves of his robe and turned with an air of polite
+inquiry. _Now we get down to business_, Griffin thought.
+
+"Joe, you know by now why we're digging up your bottom land. We'll
+recompense you in one way or another. Meanwhile, could you give me a
+little local history?"
+
+Joe smiled like a well nourished bodhisattva. "Approximately how far
+back would you like me to begin?"
+
+"At the beginning."
+
+"How long is a year on your planet?" Joe inquired.
+
+"Your year is eight and a half days longer. Our day is three hundred
+heartbeats longer than yours."
+
+Joe nodded his thanks. "More water?"
+
+Griffin declined, suppressing a shudder.
+
+"Five million years ago we were limited to one planet," Joe began. "The
+court astronomer had a vision of our planet in flames. I imagine you'd
+say our sun was about to nova. The empress was disturbed and ordered a
+convocation of seers. One fasted overlong and saw an answer. As the
+dying seer predicted the Son of Heaven came with fire-breathing
+dragons. The fairest of maidens and the strongest of our young men were
+taken to serve his warriors. We served them honestly and faithfully. A
+thousand years later their empire collapsed leaving us scattered across
+the universe. Three thousand years later a new race of barbarians
+conquered our planets. We surrendered naturally and soon were serving
+our new masters. Five hundred years passed and they destroyed
+themselves. This has been the pattern of our existence from that day to
+this."
+
+"You mean you've been slaves for five million years?" Griffin was
+incredulous.
+
+"Servitude has ever been a refuge for the scholar and the philosopher."
+
+"But what point is there in such a life? Why do you continue living
+this way?"
+
+"What is the point in any way of life? Continued existence. Personal
+immortality is neither desirable nor possible. We settled for
+perpetuation of the race."
+
+"But what about self-determination? You know enough astronomy to
+understand novae. Surely you realize it could happen again. What would
+you do without a technology to build spaceships?"
+
+"Many stars have gone nova during our history. Usually the barbarians
+came in time. When they didn't--"
+
+"You mean you don't really care?"
+
+"All barbarians ask that sooner or later," Joe smiled. "Sometimes
+toward the end they even accuse us of destroying them. We don't. Every
+technology bears the seeds of its own destruction. The stars are older
+than the machinery that explores them."
+
+"You used technology to get from one system to another."
+
+"We used it, but we were never part of it. When machines fail, their
+people die. We have no machines."
+
+"What would you do if this sun were to nova?"
+
+"We can serve you. We are not unintelligent."
+
+"Willing to work your way around the galaxy, eh? But what if we refused
+to take you?"
+
+"The race would go on. Kung Su tells me there is no life on planets of
+this system, but there are other systems."
+
+"You're whistling in the dark," Griffin scoffed. "How do you know if
+any of the Rational People survive?"
+
+"How far back does your history go?" Joe inquired.
+
+"It's hard to say exactly," Griffin replied. "Our earliest written
+records date back some seven thousand years."
+
+"You are all of one race?"
+
+"No, you may have noticed Kung Su is slightly different from the rest
+of us."
+
+"Yes, Griffin, I have noticed. When you return ask Kung Su for the
+legend of creation. More hot water?" Joe stirred and Griffin guessed
+the interview was over. He drank another ritual cup, made his farewells
+and walked thoughtfully back to camp.
+
+                     *      *      *      *      *
+
+"Kung," Griffin asked over coffee next afternoon, "how well up are you
+on Chinese mythology?"
+
+"Oh, fair, I guess. It isn't my field but I remember some of the
+stories my grandfather used to tell me."
+
+"What is your legend of creation?" Griffin persisted.
+
+"It's pretty well garbled but I remember something about the Son of
+Heaven bringing the early settlers from a land of two moons on the back
+of his fire-breathing dragon. The dragon got sick and died so they
+couldn't ever get back to heaven again. There's a lot of stuff about
+devils, too."
+
+"What about devils?"
+
+"I don't remember too well, but they were supposed to do terrible
+things to you and even to your unborn children if they ever caught you.
+They must have been pretty stupid though; they couldn't turn corners.
+My grandfather's store had devil screens at all the doors so you had to
+turn a corner to get in. The first time I saw the lead baffles at the
+pile chamber doors on this ship it reminded me of home sweet home. By
+the way, some young men from the village were around today. They want
+to work passage to the next planet. What do you think?"
+
+Griffin was silent for a long time.
+
+"Well, what do you say? We can use some hand labor for the delicate
+digging. Want to put them on?"
+
+"Might as well." Griffin answered. "There's a streetcar every
+millennium anyway."
+
+"What do you mean by that?"
+
+"You wouldn't understand. You sold your birthright to the barbarians."
+
+
+THE END
+
+
+
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