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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Cully + +Author: Jack Egan + +Illustrator: Schelling + +Release Date: October 2, 2008 [EBook #26751] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CULLY *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class="bk1"><div class="bk2"><p><i><b><big>By all the laws of nature, he should have +been dead. But if he were alive ... +then there was something he had to find.</big></b></i></p> + +<h1><big>CULLY</big></h1> + +<h2><small>By JACK EGAN</small></h2> + +<p><small><b>Illustrated by SCHELLING</b></small></p></div></div> + +<p class="cap"><span class="dcap">Above</span> him eighty feet of torpid, +black water hung like a +shroud of Death, and still he +heard his ragged breathing. And +something else. Cully concentrated +on that sound, and the +rhythmic pulsing of his heart. +Somehow he had to retain a hold +on his sanity ... or his soul.</p> + +<p>After an hour of careful +breathing and exploring of body +sensations, Cully realized he +could move. He flexed an arm; a +mote of gold sand sifted upward +in the dark water. It had a pleasant +color, in contrast with the +ominous shades of the sea. In a +few moments, he had struggled +to a sitting position, delighting +in the curtain of glittering +metal grains whirling around +him as he moved.</p> + +<p>And the other sound. A humming +in his mind; a distant burble +of tiny voices of other minds. +Words swirling in giddy patterns +he couldn't understand.</p> + +<p>Shortly thereafter, Cully discovered +why he still lived, +breathed: a suit. A yellow, plastic, +water-tight suit, with an orange-on-black +shield on the left +breast pocket, and a clear bubble-helmet. +He felt weight on his +back and examined it: two air +tanks and their regulator, a radio, +and ... the box.</p> + +<p>Suit, tanks, regulator; radio, +black water, box; sand, sea, stillness.</p> + +<p>Cully considered his world. It +was small; it was conceivable; it +was incomplete.</p> + +<p><i>Where is it?</i></p> + +<p>"Where is what?" He knew he +had a voice—a means of communication +between others of his +kind, using low-frequency heat +waves caused by agitation of air +molecules. Why couldn't he make +it work?</p> + +<p>Words. Thousands of them, at +his beck and call. What were +they? What did they mean? He +shifted uncomfortably in the +tight yellow suit, searching the +near horizon for ...</p> + +<p><i>Where is it?</i></p> + +<hr /> + +<p class="cap"><span class="dcap">A vague</span> calling came from +beyond the black sea curtain. +Objectively, because he +could do nothing to stop them, +he watched his feet pick up, +move forward, put down; pick +up, move forward, put down. +Funny. He had the feeling, the +concept, that this action held +meaning. It was supposed to +cause some reaction, accomplish +an act. He wondered at the regular +movement of his legs. One of +them hurt. A hurt is a sensation +of pain, caused by over-loading +sensory-units in the body; a hurt +is bad, because it indicates something +is wrong.</p> + +<p>Something certainly was +wrong. Something stirred in +Cully's mind. He stopped and sat +down on the sandy sea bottom, +gracefully, like a ballet dancer. +He examined his foot. There was +a tiny hole in the yellow plastic +fabric, and a thin string of red-black +was oozing out. Blood. He +knew.</p> + +<p>He was bleeding. He could do +nothing about it. He got up and +resumed walking.</p> + +<p><i>Where is it?</i></p> + +<p>Cully lifted his head in annoyance +at the sharp thought.</p> + +<p>"Go away," he said in a low, +pleading voice. The sound made +him feel better. He began muttering +to himself.</p> + +<p>"Water, black, s-sand, hurt. +Pain. Radio tanks ..."</p> + +<p>It didn't sound right. After a +few minutes, he was quiet. The +manythoughts were calling him. +He must go to the manythoughts.</p> + +<p>If his foot was bleeding, then +something had happened; if +something had happened, then +his foot was bleeding.</p> + +<p>"No!"</p> + +<p>If something had happened, +then maybe other things had +happened—before that. But how +could something happen in a +world of flat gold sand and flaccid +sea? Surely there was something +wrong. Wrong: the state +of being not-right; something +had happened that was not-right. +Cully stared at the edges of the +unmoving curtain before him.</p> + +<p><i>Where is it?</i></p> + +<p>It was a driving, promise-filled +concept. No words; just the +sense that something wonderful +lay just beyond reach. But this +voice was different from the +manythoughts. It was directing +his body; his mind was along for +the ride.</p> + +<p>The sameness of the sea and +sand became unbearable. It was +too-right, somehow. Cully felt +anger, and kicked up eddies of +dust. It changed the sameness a +little. He kicked more up, until +it swirled around him in a thick +gold haze, blotting out the terrible +emptiness of the sea.</p> + +<p>He felt another weight at his +side. He found a holster and gun. +He recognized neither. Again he +watched objectively as his hand +pulled the black object out and +handled it. His body was evidently +familiar with it, though +it was strange to his eyes. His +finger slipped automatically into +the trigger sheaf. His legs were +still working under two drives: +the manythoughts' urging, and +something else, buried in him. A +longing. Up-and-down, back-and-forth.</p> + +<p><i>Where is it?</i></p> + +<p>Anger, frustration flared in +him. His hand shot out, gun at +ready. He turned around slowly. +Through the settling trail of suspended +sand, nothing was visible.</p> + +<hr /> + +<p class="cap"><span class="dcap">Again</span> he was moving. Something +made his legs move. +He walked on through the +shrouds of Death until he felt a +taut singing in his nerves. An +irrational fear sprang out in +him, cascading down his spine, +and Cully shuddered. Ahead +there was some<i>thing</i>. Two motives: +get there because it +(they?) calls; get there because +you must.</p> + +<p><i>Where is it?</i></p> + +<p>The mind-voice was excited, +demanding. Something was out +there, besides the sameness. Cully +walked on, trailing gold. The +death-curtain parted ...</p> + +<p>An undulating garden of blue-and-gold +streamers suddenly +drifted toward him on an unfelt +current. Cully was held, entranced. +They flowed before him, +their colors dazzling, hypnotic.</p> + +<p><i>Come closer, Earthling</i>, the +manythoughts spoke inside his +head, soothingly.</p> + +<p><i>Here it is!</i> Cully's mind +shouted.</p> + +<p>Cully's mind was held, hypnotized, +but his body moved of its +own volition.</p> + +<p>He moved again. His mind +and the manythoughts' spoke: +fulfillment—almost. There was +one action left that must be +completed.</p> + +<p>Cully's arms moved. They detached +the small black box from +his pack. He moved on into the +midst of the weaving, gold-laced +plants. Little spicules licked out +from their flexing stalks and +jabbed, unsensed, into Cully's +body to draw nourishment. From +the manythoughts came the sense +of complete fulfillment.</p> + +<p>From Cully's mind came further +orders.</p> + +<p><i>Lie down.</i> It was a collective +concept. <i>Lie still. We are friends.</i></p> + +<p>He could not understand. They +were speaking words; words +were beyond him. His head shook +in despair. The voices were +implanting an emotion of horror +at what his hands were doing, +but he had no control over his +body. It was as if it were not his.</p> + +<p>The black box was now lying +in the sand among the streaming +plants. Cully's fingers reached +out and caressed a small panel. +A soundless 'click' ran through +the murkiness. The strangely +beautiful, gold-laced blue plants +began a writhing dance. Their +spicules withdrew and jabbed, +withdrew and jabbed. A rending, +silent scream tore the quiet waters.</p> + +<p><i>NO!</i> they cried. It was a negative +command, mixed in with +the terrible screaming. <i>Turn it +off!</i></p> + +<p>"Stop it, stop it!" Cully tried +to say, but there were no words. +He tried to cover his ears within +the helmet, but the cries went +on. Emotions roiled the water: +pain, hurt, reproach. Cully +sobbed. Something was wrong +here; something was killing the +plants—the beautiful blue +things! The plants were withering, +dying. He looked up at them, +stupefied, not understanding, +tears streaming down his face. +What did they want from him? +What had he done ...</p> + +<p><i>Where is it?</i></p> + +<p>A different direction materialized; +a new concept of desire.</p> + +<hr /> + +<p class="cap"><span class="dcap">Cully's</span> body turned and +crawled away from the wonderful, +dying garden, oblivious +to the pleadings floating, now +weakly, in the torpid water. He +scuffed up little motes of golden +sand, leaving a low-lying scud +along the bottom, back to the +little black box in the garden. +The plants, the box, all were forgotten +by now. Cully crawled on, +not knowing why. A rise appeared; +surprise caught Cully unaware. +A change in the sameness!</p> + +<p><i>Where is it?</i></p> + +<p>Again the voice was insistent. +His desire was close ahead; he +did not look back at the black +churning on the sea bottom. His +legs worked, his chest heaved, +words swirled in his mind. He +topped the rise.</p> + +<p>Below him, in the center of a +shallow golden bowl, floated a +long, shiny cylinder. Even from +here he knew it was huge. He +knew other things about it: how +heavy it was; how it was; that +it carried others of his kind. He +had been in it before. And they +were waiting for him. He +lurched on.</p> + +<p>"Captain! Here comes Cully!" +the midshipman shouted from +the airlock. "Look what they've +done to him!"</p> + +<p>The old man's grey eyes took +in the spectacle without visible +emotion. He watched the pathetic, +bleeding yellow plastic sack +crawl up to the ship and look up. +His hands reached down and +lifted Cully up into the lock.</p> + +<p>They took his suit off and +stared with loathing at what had +once been a man. A white scar +zig-zagged across his forehead. +The Captain bent close, in range +of the dim blue eyes.</p> + +<p>"It was a brave thing you did, +Cully. The whole system will be +grateful. Venus could never be +colonized as long as those cannibals +were there to eat men, and +drive men mad." Cully fingered +the scar on his forehead, and +looked unseeing into the old +man's compassionate eyes. "I'm +sorry Cully. We all are. But there +was no other way. Prefrontal +lobotomy, destruction of your +speech center ... it was the +only way you could get past the +telepaths and destroy them. I'm +sorry, Cully. The race of Man +shall long honor your name."</p> + +<p>Cully smiled at the old man, +the words churning in his brain; +but he did not understand.</p> + +<p><i>Where is it?</i></p> + +<p>The emptiness was still there.</p> + +<p class="tnd"><b>THE END</b></p> + +<div class="trn"><b>Transcriber's Note:</b> +This etext was produced from <i>Amazing Stories</i> January 1963. +Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. +copyright on this publication was renewed. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Cully + +Author: Jack Egan + +Illustrator: Schelling + +Release Date: October 2, 2008 [EBook #26751] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CULLY *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + +[Illustration] + + + _By all the laws of nature, he should have + been dead. But if he were alive ... + then there was something he had to find._ + + +CULLY + +By JACK EGAN + +Illustrated by SCHELLING + + +Above him eighty feet of torpid, black water hung like a shroud of +Death, and still he heard his ragged breathing. And something else. +Cully concentrated on that sound, and the rhythmic pulsing of his heart. +Somehow he had to retain a hold on his sanity ... or his soul. + +After an hour of careful breathing and exploring of body sensations, +Cully realized he could move. He flexed an arm; a mote of gold sand +sifted upward in the dark water. It had a pleasant color, in contrast +with the ominous shades of the sea. In a few moments, he had struggled +to a sitting position, delighting in the curtain of glittering metal +grains whirling around him as he moved. + +And the other sound. A humming in his mind; a distant burble of tiny +voices of other minds. Words swirling in giddy patterns he couldn't +understand. + +Shortly thereafter, Cully discovered why he still lived, breathed: a +suit. A yellow, plastic, water-tight suit, with an orange-on-black +shield on the left breast pocket, and a clear bubble-helmet. He felt +weight on his back and examined it: two air tanks and their regulator, a +radio, and ... the box. + +Suit, tanks, regulator; radio, black water, box; sand, sea, stillness. + +Cully considered his world. It was small; it was conceivable; it was +incomplete. + +_Where is it?_ + +"Where is what?" He knew he had a voice--a means of communication +between others of his kind, using low-frequency heat waves caused by +agitation of air molecules. Why couldn't he make it work? + +Words. Thousands of them, at his beck and call. What were they? What did +they mean? He shifted uncomfortably in the tight yellow suit, searching +the near horizon for ... + +_Where is it?_ + + * * * * * + +A vague calling came from beyond the black sea curtain. Objectively, +because he could do nothing to stop them, he watched his feet pick up, +move forward, put down; pick up, move forward, put down. Funny. He had +the feeling, the concept, that this action held meaning. It was supposed +to cause some reaction, accomplish an act. He wondered at the regular +movement of his legs. One of them hurt. A hurt is a sensation of pain, +caused by over-loading sensory-units in the body; a hurt is bad, because +it indicates something is wrong. + +Something certainly was wrong. Something stirred in Cully's mind. He +stopped and sat down on the sandy sea bottom, gracefully, like a ballet +dancer. He examined his foot. There was a tiny hole in the yellow +plastic fabric, and a thin string of red-black was oozing out. Blood. He +knew. + +He was bleeding. He could do nothing about it. He got up and resumed +walking. + +_Where is it?_ + +Cully lifted his head in annoyance at the sharp thought. + +"Go away," he said in a low, pleading voice. The sound made him feel +better. He began muttering to himself. + +"Water, black, s-sand, hurt. Pain. Radio tanks ..." + +It didn't sound right. After a few minutes, he was quiet. The +manythoughts were calling him. He must go to the manythoughts. + +If his foot was bleeding, then something had happened; if something had +happened, then his foot was bleeding. + +"No!" + +If something had happened, then maybe other things had happened--before +that. But how could something happen in a world of flat gold sand and +flaccid sea? Surely there was something wrong. Wrong: the state of being +not-right; something had happened that was not-right. Cully stared at +the edges of the unmoving curtain before him. + +_Where is it?_ + +It was a driving, promise-filled concept. No words; just the sense that +something wonderful lay just beyond reach. But this voice was different +from the manythoughts. It was directing his body; his mind was along for +the ride. + +The sameness of the sea and sand became unbearable. It was too-right, +somehow. Cully felt anger, and kicked up eddies of dust. It changed the +sameness a little. He kicked more up, until it swirled around him in a +thick gold haze, blotting out the terrible emptiness of the sea. + +He felt another weight at his side. He found a holster and gun. He +recognized neither. Again he watched objectively as his hand pulled the +black object out and handled it. His body was evidently familiar with +it, though it was strange to his eyes. His finger slipped automatically +into the trigger sheaf. His legs were still working under two drives: +the manythoughts' urging, and something else, buried in him. A longing. +Up-and-down, back-and-forth. + +_Where is it?_ + +Anger, frustration flared in him. His hand shot out, gun at ready. He +turned around slowly. Through the settling trail of suspended sand, +nothing was visible. + + * * * * * + +Again he was moving. Something made his legs move. He walked on through +the shrouds of Death until he felt a taut singing in his nerves. An +irrational fear sprang out in him, cascading down his spine, and Cully +shuddered. Ahead there was some_thing_. Two motives: get there because +it (they?) calls; get there because you must. + +_Where is it?_ + +The mind-voice was excited, demanding. Something was out there, +besides the sameness. Cully walked on, trailing gold. The death-curtain +parted ... + +An undulating garden of blue-and-gold streamers suddenly drifted toward +him on an unfelt current. Cully was held, entranced. They flowed before +him, their colors dazzling, hypnotic. + +_Come closer, Earthling_, the manythoughts spoke inside his head, +soothingly. + +_Here it is!_ Cully's mind shouted. + +Cully's mind was held, hypnotized, but his body moved of its own +volition. + +He moved again. His mind and the manythoughts' spoke: +fulfillment--almost. There was one action left that must be completed. + +Cully's arms moved. They detached the small black box from his pack. He +moved on into the midst of the weaving, gold-laced plants. Little +spicules licked out from their flexing stalks and jabbed, unsensed, into +Cully's body to draw nourishment. From the manythoughts came the sense +of complete fulfillment. + +From Cully's mind came further orders. + +_Lie down._ It was a collective concept. _Lie still. We are friends._ + +He could not understand. They were speaking words; words were beyond +him. His head shook in despair. The voices were implanting an emotion of +horror at what his hands were doing, but he had no control over his +body. It was as if it were not his. + +The black box was now lying in the sand among the streaming plants. +Cully's fingers reached out and caressed a small panel. A soundless +'click' ran through the murkiness. The strangely beautiful, gold-laced +blue plants began a writhing dance. Their spicules withdrew and jabbed, +withdrew and jabbed. A rending, silent scream tore the quiet waters. + +_NO!_ they cried. It was a negative command, mixed in with the terrible +screaming. _Turn it off!_ + +"Stop it, stop it!" Cully tried to say, but there were no words. He +tried to cover his ears within the helmet, but the cries went on. +Emotions roiled the water: pain, hurt, reproach. Cully sobbed. Something +was wrong here; something was killing the plants--the beautiful blue +things! The plants were withering, dying. He looked up at them, +stupefied, not understanding, tears streaming down his face. What did +they want from him? What had he done ... + +_Where is it?_ + +A different direction materialized; a new concept of desire. + + * * * * * + +Cully's body turned and crawled away from the wonderful, dying garden, +oblivious to the pleadings floating, now weakly, in the torpid water. He +scuffed up little motes of golden sand, leaving a low-lying scud along +the bottom, back to the little black box in the garden. The plants, the +box, all were forgotten by now. Cully crawled on, not knowing why. A +rise appeared; surprise caught Cully unaware. A change in the sameness! + +_Where is it?_ + +Again the voice was insistent. His desire was close ahead; he did not +look back at the black churning on the sea bottom. His legs worked, his +chest heaved, words swirled in his mind. He topped the rise. + +Below him, in the center of a shallow golden bowl, floated a long, shiny +cylinder. Even from here he knew it was huge. He knew other things about +it: how heavy it was; how it was; that it carried others of his kind. He +had been in it before. And they were waiting for him. He lurched on. + +"Captain! Here comes Cully!" the midshipman shouted from the airlock. +"Look what they've done to him!" + +The old man's grey eyes took in the spectacle without visible emotion. +He watched the pathetic, bleeding yellow plastic sack crawl up to the +ship and look up. His hands reached down and lifted Cully up into the +lock. + +They took his suit off and stared with loathing at what had once been a +man. A white scar zig-zagged across his forehead. The Captain bent +close, in range of the dim blue eyes. + +"It was a brave thing you did, Cully. The whole system will be grateful. +Venus could never be colonized as long as those cannibals were there to +eat men, and drive men mad." Cully fingered the scar on his forehead, +and looked unseeing into the old man's compassionate eyes. "I'm sorry +Cully. We all are. But there was no other way. Prefrontal lobotomy, +destruction of your speech center ... it was the only way you could get +past the telepaths and destroy them. I'm sorry, Cully. The race of Man +shall long honor your name." + +Cully smiled at the old man, the words churning in his brain; but he did +not understand. + +_Where is it?_ + +The emptiness was still there. + + +THE END + + + + +Transcriber's Note: + + This etext was produced from _Amazing Stories_ January 1963. + Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. + copyright on this publication was renewed. 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