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diff --git a/28451.txt b/28451.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0574954 --- /dev/null +++ b/28451.txt @@ -0,0 +1,759 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of I Like Martian Music, by Charles E. Fritch + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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: I Like Martian Music + +Author: Charles E. Fritch + +Release Date: March 30, 2009 [EBook #28451] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK I LIKE MARTIAN MUSIC *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + + _There have been a number of interesting theories advanced about + life on Mars, but few have equalled Charles Fritch's intriguing + picture of the world of Longtree and Channeljumper in its infinite + variations, tonal and thematic. The Mars of these two is an old + culture, old and finite._ + + + i + like + martian + music + + _by CHARLES E. FRITCH_ + + + Longtree played. His features relaxed into a gentle smile + of happiness and his body turned a bright red orange. + + +Longtree sat before his hole in the ground and gazed thoughtfully among +the sandy red hills that surrounded him. His skin at that moment was a +medium yellow, a shade between pride and happiness at having his brief +symphony almost completed, with just a faint tinge of red to denote that +uncertain, cautious approach to the last note which had eluded him thus +far. + +He sat there unmoving for a while, and then he picked up his blowstring +and fitted the mouthpiece between his thin lips. He blew into it softly +and at the same time gently strummed the three strings stretching the +length of the instrument. The note was a firm clear one which would have +made any other musician proud. + +But Longtree frowned, and at the disappointment his body flushed a dark +green and began taking on a purple cast of anger. Hastily, he put down +the blowstring and tried to think of something else. Slowly his normal +color returned. + +Across the nearest hill came his friend Channeljumper, striding on the +long thin ungainly legs that had given him his name. His skin radiated a +blissful orange. + +"Longtree!" Channeljumper exclaimed enthusiastically, collapsing on the +ground nearby and folding his legs around him. "How's the symphony +coming?" + +"Not so good," Longtree admitted sadly, and his skin turned green at the +memory. "If I don't get that last note, I may be this color the rest of +my life." + +"Why don't you play what you've written so far. It's not very long, and +it might cheer you up a bit." + +You're a good friend, Channeljumper, Longtree thought, and when Redsand +and I are married after the Music Festival we'll have you over to our +hole for dinner. As he thought this, he felt his body take on an orange +cast, and he felt better. + +"I can't seem to get that last note," he said, picking up the blowstring +again and putting it into position. "The final note must be conclusive, +something complete in itself and yet be able to sum up the entire +meaning of the symphony preceding it." + +Channeljumper hummed sympathetically. "That's a big job for one note. It +might be a sound no one has ever heard before." + +Longtree shrugged. "It may even sound _alien_," he admitted, "but it's +got to be the right note." + +"Play, and we'll see," Channeljumper urged. + +Longtree played. And as he played, his features relaxed into a gentle +smile of happiness and his body turned orange. Delicately, he strummed +the three strings of the blowstring with his long-nailed fingers, softly +he pursed his frail lips and blew expertly into the mouthpiece. + +From the instrument came sounds the like of which Channeljumper had +never before heard. The Martian sat and listened in evident rapture, his +body radiating a golden glow of ecstasy. He sat and dreamed, and as the +music played, his spine tingled with growing excitement. The music +swelled, surrounding him, permeating him, picking him up in a great hand +and sweeping him into new and strange and beautiful worlds--worlds of +tall metal structures, of vast stretches of greenness and of water and +of trees and of small pale creatures that flew giant metal insects. He +dreamed of these things which his planet Mars had not known for millions +of years. + +After a while, the music stopped, but for a moment neither of them said +anything. + +At last Channeljumper sighed. "It's beautiful," he said. + +"Yes," Longtree admitted. + +"But--" Channeljumper seemed puzzled--"but somehow it doesn't seem +complete. Almost, but not quite. As though--as though--" + +Longtree sighed. "One more note would do it. One more note--no more, no +less--at the end of the crescendo could tie the symphony together and +end it. But which one? I've tried them all, and none of them fit!" + +His voice had risen higher in his excitement, and Channeljumper warned, +"Careful, you're beginning to turn purple." + +"I know," Longtree said mournfully, and the purple tint changed to a +more acceptable green. "But I've got to win first prize at the festival +tomorrow; Redsand promised to marry me if I did." + +"You can't lose," Channeljumper told him, and then remembered, "if you +can get that last note." + +"If," Longtree echoed despairingly, as though his friend had asked the +impossible. "I wish I had your confidence, Chan; you're orange most of +the time, while I'm a spectrum." + +"I haven't your artistic temperament," Channeljumper told him. "Besides, +orange is such a homely color I feel ashamed to have it all the time." + +As he said this, he turned green with shame, and Longtree laughed at the +paradox. + +Channeljumper laughed too, glad that he had diverted his friend's +attention from the elusive and perhaps non-existent note. "Did you know +the space rocket is due pretty soon," he said, "perhaps even in time for +the Music Festival?" + +"Space rocket?" + +"Oh, I forgot you were busy composing and didn't get to hear about it," +Channeljumper said. "Well, Bigwind, who has a telescope in his hole, +told me a rocket is coming through space toward us, possibly from the +third planet." + +"Oh?" Longtree said, not particularly interested. + +"I wonder if they'll look like us?" Channeljumper wondered. + +"If they're intelligent, of course they will," Longtree said certainly, +not caring. "Their culture will probably be alien, though, and their +music--" He paused and turned a very deep yellow. "Of course! They might +even be able to furnish the note I need to complete my symphony!" + +Channeljumper shook his head. "You've got to compose it all yourself," +he reminded, "or you don't qualify. And if you don't qualify, you can't +win, and if you don't win, you can't marry Redsand." + +"But just one little note--" Longtree said. + +Channeljumper shrugged helplessly and turned sympathetically green. "I +don't make the rules," he said. + +"No. Well," Longtree went on in sudden determination, "I'll find that +last note if I have to stay permanently purple." + +Channeljumper shuddered jestingly at this but remained pleasantly +orange. "And I'll leave you alone so you can get to work," he said, +unfolding himself. + +"Goodbye," Longtree said, but Channeljumper's long legs had already +taken him over to the nearest sand dune and out of sight. + +Alone, Longtree picked up the blowstring once more, placed it against +his stomach, and gave out with a clear, beautiful, experimental note +which was again not the one he desired. + +He still had not found it an hour later, when the Sound came. The Sound +was a low unpleasant rumble, a sound lower than any Longtree had ever +heard, and he wondered what it was. Thinking of it, he remembered he had +seen a large flash of fire in the sky a moment before the roar came. But +since this last was clearly not likely at all, he dismissed the whole +thing as imagination and tried again to coax some new note from the +blowstring. + +A half hour later, Channeljumper came bounding excitedly over a sand +dune. "They're here," he cried, screeching to a halt and emitting yellow +flashes of color. + +"Who's here?" Longtree demanded, turning violet in annoyance at the +interruption. + +"The visitors from space," Channeljumper explained. "They landed near my +hole. They're little creatures, only half as big as we are, but thicker +and grey colored." + +"Grey colored?" Longtree repeated incredulously, trying to picture the +improbability. + +"But only on the outside," Channeljumper went on. "They have an outside +shell that comes off, and inside they're sort of pink-orange." + +"Ah-ha," Longtree said, as though he'd suspected it all the time. +"Evidently they wear grey suits of some kind, probably for protection." + +"They took them off anyway," Channeljumper said, eager to impart his +knowledge, "and they were sort of pink-orange underneath. There are only +two of them, and one has long hair." + +"Strange," Longtree mused, thinking of their own hairless bodies. +"Wonder what they want." + +Channeljumper shrugged to indicate he didn't know. "The short-haired one +followed me," he said. + +Longtree felt the chill blue of fear creep along his spine, but +immediate anger at himself changed it conveniently to purple, and he was +certain Channeljumper hadn't noticed. When he had controlled himself, he +said, "Well, it doesn't matter. I've got to get on with my symphony. +That last note--" + +"He's here," Channeljumper announced. + +"What?" + +Channeljumper pointed eagerly, and Longtree's eyes followed the +direction to where the alien stood at the top of a nearby dune staring +at them. Longtree could feel his skin automatically turning red with +caution, blending with the sand while the ever-trusting Channeljumper +remained bright orange. + +"Good gosh," the alien exclaimed. "Not only do they look like modified +grasshoppers, they change color too!" + +"What'd he say?" Longtree demanded. + +"How should I know?" Channeljumper said. "It's in another language." + +"And its voice," Longtree exclaimed, almost disbelieving it. "Low. Lower +than even our drums' rumble." + +"And they talk in squeaks yet!" the alien told himself aloud. + +Longtree regarded the alien carefully. As Channeljumper had said, the +creature was short and had close-cropped hair on its head. The legs were +brief and pudgy, and Longtree felt a shade of pity for the creature who +could obviously not get around as well as they. It was undoubtedly +intelligent--the space rocket testified to that--and the fact that the +creature's skin color stayed a peaceful pink-orange helped assure +Longtree the alien's mission was friendly. + +The alien raised a short arm and stepped slowly forward. "I come in +peace," he said in the language they could not understand. "My wife and +I are probably the only humans left alive. When we left Earth, most of +the population had been wiped out by atomics. I think we were the only +ones to get away." + +Longtree felt his redness subside to orange, as he wondered idly what +the alien had said. Except for a natural curiosity, he didn't really +care, for he remembered suddenly the symphony he had to finish by +tomorrow if he were to marry Redsand. But there was the element of +politeness to consider, so he nudged Channeljumper. + +"Don't just stand there, say something!" + +Channeljumper flustered and turned several colors in rapid succession. +He stammered, "Er--ah--welcome to our planet, O visitor from space," and +motioned the alien to sit down. + +"That's not very creative," Longtree accused. + +"What's the difference," Channeljumper pointed out, "when he doesn't +understand us anyway." + +"You guys don't really look like grasshoppers," the man from Earth +apologized, coming forward; "it's just the long legs that fooled me from +up there. Boy, am I glad to find somebody intelligent on Mars; from the +air we couldn't see any cities or anything, and we were afraid the +planet didn't have any life. I wish we could understand each other, +though." + +Longtree smiled pleasantly and wished the creature would go away so he +could search for the last note to his symphony. He picked up his +blowstring so the alien wouldn't sit on it. + +"Play for him," Channeljumper suggested, seating himself by segments. +"Just the last part to see how he reacts. Music is universal, you know." + +Longtree was going to do just that thing, for despite Channeljumper's +warning that he must compose every single note by himself, he felt an +alien viewpoint might be helpful. + +He started playing. Channeljumper sat dreaming, glowing radiantly, but +the alien seemed somewhat perturbed by the music and fidgeted nervously. +Could it be, Longtree wondered, that the incredible beauty of his +composition might not translate acceptably to alien ears? He dismissed +the thought as unlikely. + +"Er--that's a bit high, isn't it?" the creature said, shaking his head. + +Lost in the sweeping melodies, neither Longtree nor Channeljumper paid +any attention to the meaningless syllables. Longtree played on, +oblivious to all else, soaring toward the great screaming crescendo that +would culminate with the missing note. + +Vaguely, he became aware that the creature had gotten up, and he turned +a small part of his attention to the action. Longtree smiled inwardly, +pleased, and turned yellow with pride to think even a man from another +planet should so appreciate his symphony that he got up and danced a +strange dance and even sang to the music. + +The alien held onto his ears and leaped erratically, singing, "No, no, +stop it. It's too high. My head's bursting!" + +Channeljumper too seemed pleased by this show of appreciation, though +neither of them understood the words, and Longtree swept into the final +notes of the rising crescendo with a gusto he had not previously +displayed. He stopped where he had always stopped--and the final note +came! + +It startled the Martians. Then the realization swept over them in glad +tides of color. The symphony was complete now, with that final alien +sound. Longtree could win both the festival prize and Redsand with it. +The last note was a soft popping sound that had come from the creature +from another planet. They looked to see him sagging to the ground, his +head soft and pulpy. + +"My symphony's complete," Longtree exclaimed jubilantly, a brilliant +yellow now. + +But Channeljumper's yellow happiness was tinged with green. "A pity," he +said, "the creature had to give its life in exchange for the note." + +"I believe it really wanted to," Longtree said, turning solemn. "Did you +see how it danced to the music, as though in the throes of ecstasy, and +it didn't change color once! It must have died happy to know it gave +itself to a good cause." + +"You could probably get by with claiming to use the creature as an +auxiliary instrument," mused Channeljumper, practical once more, "and +eliminate any claim that he might have assisted you. But what about the +Festival? This one looks as though he doesn't have another note in him." + +"There's the other one," Longtree reminded, "the one with long hair. We +can save that one until tomorrow." + +"Of course," Channeljumper agreed, standing up. "I'll go get it, and you +can keep it safe here in your hole until tomorrow night." + +"You're a good friend, Channeljumper," Longtree began, but the other was +already bounding out of sight over a sand dune. + +Blissfully he raised the blowstring into position and played the opening +notes to his symphony. The alien lay unmoving with its head in a sticky +puddle, but Longtree took no notice. He didn't even consider that after +the Festival he would never be able to play his symphony again in all +its glorious completeness. His spinal column tingled pleasantly, and his +skin turned the golden yellow of unbearable happiness. + +The music was beautiful. + + + + +Transcriber's Note: + + This etext was produced from _Fantastic Universe_ September 1957. + Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. + copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and + typographical errors have been corrected without note. + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's I Like Martian Music, by Charles E. 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