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+Title: The Sword
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+Author: Frank Quattrocchi
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+Illustrator: Tom Beecham
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+Release Date: June 5, 2010 [EBook #32697]
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+                               THE SWORD
+
+                          By Frank Quattrocchi
+
+                       Illustrated by Tom Beecham
+
+[Transcriber Note: This etext was produced from IF Worlds of Science
+Fiction March 1953. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
+the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
+
+
+[Sidenote: _There were but three days in which to decipher the most
+cryptic message ever delivered to earth._]
+
+
+George Harrison noticed the flashing red light on the instrument panel
+as he turned onto the bridge to Balboa Island. Just over the bridge, he
+pulled the car to the curb and flipped the switch with violence.
+"Harrison," he muttered.
+
+"How's the water, fella?" asked the voice of Bob Mills, his assistant.
+
+There was a beautiful moon over the island. The surf lapped at the tiers
+of the picturesque bridge. Soft music was playing somewhere. There was a
+tinkle of young laughter on the light sea breeze.
+
+Harrison was vacationing and he viewed the emergency contact from
+Intersolar Spaceport with annoyance.
+
+"What do you want, Bob?"
+
+"Sorry, George," Bob Mills said more seriously. "I guess you got to come
+back."
+
+"Listen--" protested Harrison.
+
+"Orders, George--orders from upstairs."
+
+Harrison took a long look at the pleasant island street stretching out
+before him. Sea-corroded street lamps lit the short, island
+thoroughfare. People in light blue jeans, bronzed youths in skipper
+caps, deep-tanned girls in terry-cloth.
+
+"What the hell is it?"
+
+"Don't know, but it's big. Better hurry." He clicked off.
+
+Harrison skidded the car into a squealing turn. Angrily, he raced over
+the bridge and onto the roaring highway. Thirty minutes later Intersolar
+Spaceport, Los Angeles, blazed ahead of him.
+
+The main gate guards waved him in immediately and two cycle guards ran
+interference for him through the scores of video newsmen who lined the
+spaceport street.
+
+Bob Mills met him at the entrance to the Administration building.
+
+"Sorry, George, but--"
+
+"Yeah. Oh, sure. Now what the hell is it all about?"
+
+Mills handed him a sheaf of tele-transmittals. They bore heavy secret
+stamps. Harrison looked up quizzically.
+
+"You saw the video boys," Mills said. "The wheels think there might be
+some hysteria."
+
+"Any reason for it?"
+
+"Not that we know of--not that _I_ know of anyway. The thing is coming
+in awfully fast--speed of light times a factor of at least two, maybe
+four."
+
+Harrison whistled softly and scanned the reports frowning.
+
+"They contacted us--"
+
+"What?"
+
+"_--in perfect Intersolar Convention code._ Said they were coming in.
+That's all. The port boys have done all they could to find out what to
+expect and prepare for it. Somebody thought Engineering might be
+needed--that's why they sent for you."
+
+"Used Intersolar Convention code, eh," mused Harrison.
+
+"Yes," said Mills. "But there's nothing like this thing known in the
+solar system, nothing even close to this fast. Besides that, there was a
+sighting several days ago that's being studied.
+
+"One of the radio observatories claims to have received a new signal
+from one of the star clusters...."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The huge metal vessel settled to a perfect contact with its assigned
+strip. It hovered over the geometric center of the long runway and
+touched without raising a speck of dust.
+
+Not a sound, not a puff of smoke issued from any part of it. Immediately
+it rose a few feet above the concrete and began to move toward the
+parking strip. It moved with the weightless ease of an ancient dirigible
+on a still day. It was easily the largest, strangest object ever seen
+before at the spaceport.
+
+A team of searchlight men swivelled the large spot atop the tower and
+bathed the ship in orange light.
+
+"What's that mean?" asked Mills paging his way through a book.
+
+"'Halt propulsion equipment,' I think," said Harrison.
+
+"It's a good thing the code makers were vague about that," smiled Mills.
+"It's a good thing they didn't say jets or rockets--'cause this thing
+hasn't got any."
+
+"_Attention!_"
+
+That single word suddenly issued from the alien ship.
+
+"_The Races of Wan greet you._"
+
+It might have been the voice of a frog. It was low, gutteral, entirely
+alien, entirely without either enthusiasm or trace of human emotion.
+
+"Jesus!" muttered Mills.
+
+Scores of video teams focused equipment on the gleaming alien.
+
+"_The Races of Wan desire contact with you._"
+
+"In English yet!" amazed Mills.
+
+"The basis of this contact together with its nature are dependent upon
+_you_!"
+
+The voice had become ugly. There was nothing human about it save only
+the words, which were in flawless English.
+
+"Your system has long been under surveillance by the Races of Wan.
+Your--progress has been noted."
+
+There was almost a note of contempt, thought Harrison, in the last
+sentence.
+
+"Your system is about to reach others. It therefore becomes a matter of
+urgency that the Races of Wan make contact.
+
+"Your cultural grasp is as yet quite small. You reach four of your own
+system's planets. You have attempted--with little success--colonization.
+You anticipate further penetrations.
+
+"You master the physical conditions of your system with difficulty. You
+are a victim of many of the natural laws--natural laws which you dimly
+perceive.
+
+"But you master yourselves with greatest difficulty, and you are
+infinitely more a victim of forces within your very nature--_forces
+which you know almost not at all_."
+
+"What the hell--" began Mills.
+
+"Because of this disparity your maturity as a race is much in doubt.
+There are many among the cultures of the stars who would consider your
+race deviant and deadly. There are a very few who would welcome you to
+the reaches of space.
+
+"But most desire more information. Thus our visit. We have come to
+gather data that will determine your--disposition--
+
+"Your race accepts the principle of extermination. You relentlessly seek
+and kill for commercial or political advantage. You live in mistrust and
+envy and threat. Yet, as earthlings, you have power. It is not great,
+but it contains a threat. We wish now to know the extent of that threat.
+
+"Here is the test."
+
+Suddenly an image resolved itself on the gleaming metal of the ship
+itself.
+
+_It was a blueprint._
+
+A hundred cameras focused on it.
+
+"_Construct this. It is defective. Correct that which renders it not
+useful. We shall return in three days for your solution._"
+
+"Good God!" exclaimed Harrison. "It's a--_sword_!"
+
+"A what?" asked Mills.
+
+"A sword--people used to chop each other's heads off with them."
+
+Almost at once the metal giant was seen to move. Quickly it retraced its
+path across the apron, remained poised on the center of the runway, then
+disappeared almost instantaneously.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The Intersolar Council weathered the storm. The representative of the
+colony on Venus was recalled, his political life temporarily ended. A
+vigilante committee did for a time picket the spaceport. But the
+tremendous emotional outbursts of the first day gradually gave way to a
+semblance of order.
+
+Video speakers, some of them with huge followings, still denounced the
+ISC for permitting the alien to land in the first place. Others clamored
+for a fleet to pursue the arrogant visitor. And there were many fools
+who chose to ignore the implications of the strange speech and its
+implied threat. Some even thought it was a gigantic hoax.
+
+But most men soon came to restore their trust in the scientists of the
+Intersolar Council.
+
+Harrison cast down the long sheet of morning news that had rolled out of
+the machine.
+
+"The fools! They'll play politics right up to the last, won't they?"
+
+"What else?" asked Mills. "Playing politics is as good a way as any of
+avoiding what you can't figure out or solve."
+
+"And yet, what the hell are _we_ doing here?" Harrison mused. "Listen to
+this."
+
+He picked up a stapled sheaf of papers from his desk.
+
+"'_Analysis of word usage indicates a complete knowledge of the English
+language_'--that's brilliant, isn't it? '_The ideational content and
+general semantic tone of the alien speech indicates a relatively high
+intelligence._
+
+"'_Usage is current, precise...._' Bob, the man who wrote that report is
+one of the finest semantics experts in the solar system. He's the brain
+that finally broke that ancient Martian ceremonial language they found
+on the columns."
+
+"Well, mastermind," said Mills. "What will the _Engineering_ report say
+when you get around to writing it?"
+
+"Engineering report? What are you talking about?"
+
+"You didn't read the memo on your desk then? The one that requested a
+preliminary report from every department by 2200 today."
+
+"Good God, no," said Harrison snapping up the thin yellow sheet. "What
+in hell has a sword got to do with Engineering?"
+
+"What's it got to do with Semantics?" mocked Robert Mills.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+_Construct this. It is defective. Correct that which renders it not
+useful._
+
+Harrison's eyes burned. He would have to quit pretty soon and dictate
+the report. There wasn't any use in trying to go beyond a certain point.
+You got so damned tired you couldn't think straight. You might as well
+go to bed and rest. Bob Mills had gone long before.
+
+He poured over the blueprint again, striving to concentrate. Why in hell
+had he not given up altogether? What possible contribution could an
+engineer make toward the solution of such a problem?
+
+_Construct this._
+
+You simply made the thing according to a simple blueprint. You tried out
+what you got, found out what it was good for, found out then what was
+keeping it from doing that. You fixed it.
+
+Well, the sword had been constructed. Fantastic effort had been directed
+into producing a perfect model of the print. Every minute convolution
+had been followed to an incredible point of perfection. Harrison was
+willing to bet there was less than a ten thousandths error--even in the
+handle, where the curves seemed to be more artistic than mechanical.
+
+_It is defective._
+
+What was defective about it? Nobody had actually tried the ancient
+weapon, it was true. You didn't go around chopping people's heads off.
+But experts on such things had examined the twelve-pound blade and had
+pronounced it "well balanced"--whatever that meant. It would crack a
+skull, sever arteries, kill or maim.
+
+_Correct...._
+
+What was there to correct? Could you make it maim or kill better? Could
+you sharpen it so that it would go through thick clothing or fur? Yes.
+Could you make it a bit heavier so that it might slice a metal shield?
+Yes, perhaps. All of these things had been half-heartedly suggested. But
+nobody had yet proposed any kind of qualitative change or been able to
+suggest any kind of change that would meet the next admonition of the
+alien:
+
+Correct _that which renders it not useful_.
+
+What actually could be done to a weapon to make it useful? Matter of
+fact, what was there about the present weapon that made it _not_ useful.
+Apparently it was useful as hell--useful enough to cut a man's throat,
+pierce his heart, slice an arm off him....
+
+What were the possible swords; what was the morphology of _concept
+sword_?
+
+Harrison picked up a dog-eared report.
+
+There was the _rapier_, a thin, light, extremely flexible kind of sword
+(if you considered the word "sword" generic, as the Semantics expert had
+pointed out). It was good for duels, man-to-man combat, usually on what
+the ancients had called the "field of honor."
+
+There were all kinds of short swords, dirks, shivs, stilettos, daggers.
+They were the weapons of stealth men--and sometimes women--used in the
+night. The assassin's weapon, the glitter in the darkened alley.
+
+There were the _machetes_. Jungle knives, cane-cutting instruments. The
+bayonets....
+
+You could go on and on from there, apparently. But what did you get?
+They were all more or less useful, Harrison supposed. There was nothing
+more you could do with any kind of sword that was designed for a
+specific purpose.
+
+Harrison sighed in despair. He had expected vastly more when he had
+first heard the alien mention "test". He had expected some complex
+instrument, something new to Terra and her colonies. Something involving
+complex and perhaps unknown principles of an alien technology. Something
+appropriate to the strange metal craft that traveled so very fast.
+
+Or perhaps a paradox. A thing that could not be constructed without
+exploding, like a lattice of U235 of exactly critical size. Or an
+instrument that must be assembled in an impossible sequence, like a
+clock with a complete, single-pieced outer shell. Or a part of a thing
+that could be "corrected" only if the whole thing were visualized,
+constructed, and tested.
+
+No, the blueprint he held now involved an awareness that must prove
+beyond mere technology, or at least Terran technology. Maybe it involved
+an awareness that transcended Terran philosophy as well.
+
+Harrison slapped the pencil down on his desk, rose, put his coat on, and
+left the office.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"... we are guilty as the angels of the bible were guilty. Pride! That's
+it, folks, pride. False pride...."
+
+Harrison fringed the intent crowd of people cursing when, frequently,
+someone carelessly bumped into him in an effort to get nearer the
+sidewalk preacher.
+
+"We tried to live with the angels above. We wanted to fly like the
+birds. And then we wanted to fly like the angels...."
+
+Someone near Harrison muttered an "Amen". Harrison wove his way through
+them wondering where the hundreds of such evangelists had come from so
+suddenly.
+
+"Ya know, folks, the angels themselves got uppity once. _They_ wanted to
+be like Gawd himself, they did. Now, it's us."
+
+There was a small flutter of laughter among the crowd. It was very
+quickly suppressed--so quickly that Harrison gained a new appreciation
+of the tenor of the crowd.
+
+"That's right, laugh! Laugh at our folly!" continued the thin-faced,
+bright-eyed man. "It was a sword that the angel used to kick Adam and
+Eve out of the garden. The sword figures all through the bible, folks.
+You ought to read the bible. You ought to get to know it. It's all
+there. All there for you to read...."
+
+_By Christ_, thought Harrison. Here was an aspect of the concept, sword,
+he had not considered. Morphological thinking required that _all_
+aspects of a concept be explored, all plotted against all others for
+possible correlation....
+
+No. That was silly. The bible was a beautiful piece of literature and
+some people believed it inspired. But the great good men who wrote the
+bible had little scientific knowledge of a sword. They would simply
+describe the weapon as a modern fiction writer would describe a
+blaster--without knowing any more about one than that it existed and was
+a weapon.
+
+Surely the ISC's weapons expert could be trusted to know his swords.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"Go on home," Mills pleaded. "You're shot and you know it. You said
+yourself this isn't our show."
+
+"You go home, Bob. I'm all right."
+
+"George ... you're acting strange. Strange as hell."
+
+"I'm all right. Leave me alone," snapped Harrison becoming irritable.
+
+Mills watched silently as the haggard man slipped a tablet into his
+mouth.
+
+"It's all right, Bob," smiled Harrison weakly. "I know how to use
+Benzedrine."
+
+"You damn fool, you'll wreck yourself...."
+
+But the engineer ignored him. He continued paging his way through the
+book--the bible, no less. George Harrison and the bible!
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Mills was awakened by the telephone. Reaching in the dark for it he
+answered almost without reaching consciousness.
+
+It was Harrison.
+
+"Bob, listen to me. If an angel were to look at us right now, what would
+he think?"
+
+"For God's sake!" Mills cried into the instrument. "What's up? You still
+at the office?"
+
+"Yeah, answer the question."
+
+"Hold on, George. I'll be down and get you. What you been drinking?"
+
+"Bob, would he--she--think much of us? Would the angel figure we
+were...."
+
+"How the hell would _I_ know?"
+
+"No, Bob, what you should have asked is 'how the hell would _he_ know.'"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+In a daze Mills heard the click as the other hung up.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"Mr. Harrison, your assistant is looking for you."
+
+"Yes, I know, Kirk. But will you do it?"
+
+"Mr. Harrison, we only got one of them. If we screw it up it'll take
+time to make another and today's the day, you know."
+
+"I'll take the blame."
+
+"Mr. Harrison, you look kind of funny. Hadn't I better...."
+
+Harrison was sketching a drawing on a piece of waste paper. He was
+working in quick rough strokes, copying something from a book.
+
+"They'll blame us both, Mr. Harrison. Anyway, it might hold up somebody
+who's got a real idea...."
+
+"_I_ have a real idea, Kirk. I'm going to draw it for you."
+
+The metal worker noticed that the book Harrison was copying from was a
+dictionary, a very old and battered one.
+
+"Here, can you follow what I've drawn?"
+
+The metal worker accepted it reluctantly, giving Harrison an odd, almost
+patronizing look. "This is crazy."
+
+"Kirk!"
+
+"Look, Mr. Harrison. We worked a long time together. You...."
+
+Harrison suddenly rose from the chair.
+
+"This is our one chance of beating this thing, no matter how crazy it
+seems. Will you do the job?"
+
+"You believe you got something, eh," the other said. "You think you
+have?"
+
+"I have to have."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"Gentlemen," said the President of the Intersolar Council. "There is
+very little to say. There can be no denying the fact that we have
+exhausted our efforts at finding a satisfactory solution.
+
+"The contents of this book of reports represents the greatest
+concentration of expert reasoning perhaps ever applied to a single
+problem.
+
+"But alas, the problem remains--unsolved."
+
+He paused to glance at his wristwatch.
+
+"The aliens return in an hour. As you very well know there is one action
+that remains for us. It is one we have held to this hour. It is one that
+has always been present and one that we have been constantly urged to
+use.
+
+"Force, gentlemen. It is not insignificant. It lies at our command. It
+represents the technology of the Intersolar alliance. I will entertain a
+motion to use it."
+
+There were no nay votes.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The alien arrived on schedule. The ship grew from a tiny bright speck in
+the sky to full size. It settled to a graceful landing as before on the
+strip and silently moved into the revetment.
+
+Again it spoke in the voice of the frog, but the tone was, if anything,
+less human this time.
+
+"Earthmen, we have come for your solution."
+
+At that instant a hundred gun crews stiffened and waited for a signal
+behind their carefully camouflaged blast plates and inside dummy
+buildings....
+
+Harrison was running. The Administration building was empty. His
+footsteps echoed through the long, silent halls. He headed for an
+emergency exit that led directly to the blast tunnel. All doors were
+locked.
+
+The only way was over the wall. He paused and tossed the awkward, heavy
+object over the ten-foot wall. Then, backing toward the building, he ran
+and jumped for a hold onto the wall's edge. He failed by several inches
+to reach it.
+
+"Earthmen, we have come for your solution."
+
+He ran at the wall once more. This time he caught a fair hold with one
+hand. Digging at the rough concrete with his feet he was able to secure
+the hold and begin pulling his body upward.
+
+Quickly he was over the wall and onto the apron, a hundred yards from
+the shining metal ship.
+
+"Wait!" he shouted. "Wait, for God's sake!"
+
+Picking up the object he had tossed over the wall, he raised it above
+his head and ran toward the alien ship.
+
+"Wait! Here is the solution," he gasped.
+
+Somehow the command to fire was not given. There was a long moment of
+complete silence on the field. Nothing moved.
+
+Then the voice of the frog boomed from the alien ship.
+
+"The solution appears to be correct."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The alien left three days later. Regular communications would begin
+within the week. Future meetings would work out technical difficulties.
+Preliminary trade agreements, adequately safeguarded, were drafted and
+transmitted to the ship. The Races of Man and the Races of Wan were in
+harmony.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"It was simply too obvious for any of us to notice," explained Harrison.
+"It took that street-corner evangelist to jar something loose--even then
+it was an accident."
+
+"And the rest of us--" started Mills.
+
+"While _all_ of us worked on the assumption that the test involved a
+showing of strength--a flexing of technological muscle."
+
+"I still don't see--"
+
+"Well, the evangelist put the problem on the right basis. He humbled us,
+exalted the aliens--that is, he thought the alien was somehow a
+messenger from God to put us in our places."
+
+"We were pretty humble ourselves, especially the last day," protested
+Mills.
+
+"But humble about our _technology_," put in Harrison. "The aliens must
+be plenty far beyond us technologically. But how about their cultural
+superiority. Ask yourself how a culture that could produce the ship
+we've just seen could survive without--well destroying itself."
+
+"I still don't understand."
+
+"The aliens developed pretty much equally in _all_ directions. They
+developed force--plenty of it, enough force to kick that big ship
+through space at the speed of light plus. They must also have learned to
+control force, to live with it."
+
+"Maybe you better stick to the sword business," said Mills.
+
+"The sword is the crux of the matter. What did the alien say about the
+sword? 'It is defective.' It _is_ defective, Bob. Not as an instrument
+of death. It will kill a man or injure him well enough.
+
+"But a sword--or any other instrument of force for that matter--is a
+terribly ineffectual tool. It was originally designed to act as a tool
+of social control. Did it--or any subsequent weapon of force--do a good
+job at that?
+
+"As long as man used swords, or gunpowder, or atom bombs, or hydrogen
+bombs, he was doomed to a fearful anarchy of unsolved problems and
+dreadful immaturity.
+
+"No, the sword is not useful. To fix it--to 'correct that which renders
+it not useful'--meant to make it something else. Now what in the hell
+did that mean? What can you do with a sword?"
+
+"You mean besides cut a man in two with it," said Mills.
+
+"Yes, what can you do with it besides use it as a weapon? Here our
+street-corner friend referred me to the right place: The bible!
+
+"_They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into
+pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither
+shall they learn war any more._
+
+"The aliens just wanted to know if we meant what we said."
+
+"Do we?"
+
+"We better. It's going to take a hell of a lot more than a silly
+ploughshare to convince those babies on that ship. But there's more to
+it than that. The ability of a culture finally to pound all of its
+swords--its intellectual ones as well as its steel ones--into
+ploughshares must be some kind of least common denominator for cultures
+that are headed for the stars."
+
+
+
+
+
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