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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/license - - -Title: Later Than You Think - -Author: Fritz Leiber - -Release Date: December 23, 2015 [EBook #50753] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LATER THAN YOU THINK *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/cover.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="titlepage"> -<h1>Later Than You Think</h1> - -<p>By FRITZ LEIBER</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> Galaxy Science Fiction October 1950.<br /> Extensive research did not uncover any evidence<br /> that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -</div> -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" width="600" height="454" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p class="ph3">It's much later. The question is ... how late?</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Obviously the Archeologist's study belonged to an era vastly distant -from today. Familiar similarities here and there only sharpened the -feeling of alienage. The sunlight that filtered through the windows in -the ceiling had a wan and greenish cast and was augmented by radiation -from some luminous material impregnating the walls and floor. Even the -wide desk and the commodious hassocks glowed with a restful light. -Across the former were scattered metal-backed wax tablets, styluses, -and a pair of large and oddly formed spectacles. The crammed bookcases -were not particularly unusual, but the books were bound in metal and -the script on their spines would have been utterly unfamiliar to the -most erudite of modern linguists. One of the books, lying open on a -hassock, showed leaves of a thin, flexible, rustless metal covered -with luminous characters. Between the bookcases were phosphorescent oil -paintings, mainly of sea bottoms, in somber greens and browns. Their -style, neither wholly realistic nor abstract, would have baffled the -historian of art.</p> - -<p>A blackboard with large colored crayons hinted equally at the -schoolroom and the studio.</p> - -<p>In the center of the room, midway to the ceiling, hung a fish with -irridescent scales of breathtaking beauty. So invisible was its means -of support that—also taking into account the strange paintings and the -greenish light—one would have sworn that the object was to create an -underwater scene.</p> - -<p>The Explorer made his entrance in a theatrical swirl of movement. He -embraced the Archeologist with a warmth calculated to startle that -crusty old fellow. Then he settled himself on a hassock, looked up -and asked a question in a speech and idiom so different from any we -know that it must be called another means of communication rather than -another language. The import was, "Well, what about it?"</p> - -<p>If the Archeologist were taken aback, he concealed it. His expression -showed only pleasure at being reunited with a long-absent friend.</p> - -<p>"What about what?" he queried.</p> - -<p>"About your discovery!"</p> - -<p>"What discovery?" The Archeologist's incomprehension was playful.</p> - -<p>The Explorer threw up his arms. "Why, what else but your discovery, -here on Earth, of the remains of an intelligent species? It's the find -of the age! Am I going to have to coax you? Out with it!"</p> - -<p>"I didn't make the discovery," the other said tranquilly. "I only -supervised the excavations and directed the correlation of material. -<i>You</i> ought to be doing the talking. <i>You're</i> the one who's just -returned from the stars."</p> - -<p>"Forget that." The Explorer brushed the question aside. "As soon as -our spaceship got within radio range of Earth, they started to send -us a continuous newscast covering the period of our absence. One of -the items, exasperatingly brief, mentioned your discovery. It captured -my imagination. I couldn't wait to hear the details." He paused, then -confessed, "You get so eager out there in space—a metal-filmed droplet -of life lost in immensity. You rediscover your emotions...." He -changed color, then finished rapidly, "As soon as I could decently get -away, I came straight to you. I wanted to hear about it from the best -authority—yourself."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The Archeologist regarded him quizzically. "I'm pleased that you should -think of me and my work, and I'm very happy to see you again. But admit -it now, isn't there something a bit odd about your getting so worked -up over this thing? I can understand that after your long absence from -Earth, any news of Earth would seem especially important. But isn't -there an additional reason?"</p> - -<p>The Explorer twisted impatiently. "Oh, I suppose there is. -Disappointment, for one thing. We were hoping to get in touch with -intelligent life out there. We were specially trained in techniques for -establishing mental contact with alien intelligent life forms. Well, we -found some planets with life upon them, all right. But it was primitive -life, not worth bothering about."</p> - -<p>Again he hesitated embarrassedly. "Out there you get to thinking of -the preciousness of intelligence. There's so little of it, and it's so -lonely. And we so greatly need intercourse with another intelligent -species to give depth and balance to our thoughts. I suppose I set -too much store by my hopes of establishing a contact." He paused. "At -any rate, when I heard that what we were looking for, you had found -here at home—even though dead and done for—I felt that at least it -was something. I was suddenly very eager. It is odd, I know, to get -so worked up about an extinct species—as if my interest could mean -anything to them now—but that's the way it hit me."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Several small shadows crossed the windows overhead. They might have -been birds, except they moved too slowly.</p> - -<p>"I think I understand," the Archeologist said softly.</p> - -<p>"So get on with it and tell me about your discovery!" the Explorer -exploded.</p> - -<p>"I've already told you that it wasn't my discovery," the Archeologist -reminded him. "A few years after your expedition left, there was begun -a detailed resurvey of Earth's mineral resources. In the course of -some deep continental borings, one party discovered a cache—either a -very large box or a rather small room—with metallic walls of great -strength and toughness. Evidently its makers had intended it for the -very purpose of carrying a message down through the ages. It proved to -contain artifacts; models of buildings, vehicles, and machines, objects -of art, pictures, and books—hundreds of books, along with elaborate -pictorial dictionaries for interpreting them. So now we even understand -their languages."</p> - -<p>"Languages?" interrupted the Explorer. "That's queer. Somehow one -thinks of an alien species as having just one language."</p> - -<p>"Like our own, this species had several, though there were some words -and symbols that were alike in all their languages. These words and -symbols seem to have come down unchanged from their most distant -prehistory."</p> - -<p>The Explorer burst out, "I am not interested in all that dry stuff! -Give me the wet! What were they like? How did they live? What did they -create? What did they want?"</p> - -<p>The Archeologist gently waved aside the questions. "All in good time. -If I am to tell you everything you want to know, I must tell it my own -way. Now that you are back on Earth, you will have to reacquire those -orderly and composed habits of thought which you have partly lost in -the course of your wild interstellar adventurings."</p> - -<p>"Curse you, I think you're just trying to tantalize me."</p> - -<p>The Archeologist's expression showed that this was not altogether -untrue. He casually fondled an animal that had wriggled up onto his -desk, and which looked rather more like an eel than a snake. "Cute -little brute, isn't it?" he remarked. When it became apparent that the -Explorer wasn't to be provoked into another outburst, he continued, "It -became my task to interpret the contents of the cache, to reconstruct -its makers' climb from animalism and savagery to civilization, their -rather rapid spread across the world's surface, their first fumbling -attempts to escape from the Earth."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>"They had spaceships?"</p> - -<p>"It's barely possible. I rather hope they did, since it would mean -the chance of a survival elsewhere, though the negative results of -your expedition rather lessen that." He went on, "The cache was laid -down when they were first attempting space flight, just after their -discovery of atomic power, in the first flush of their youth. It was -probably created in a kind of exuberant fancifulness, with no serious -belief that it would ever serve the purpose for which it was intended." -He looked at the Explorer strangely. "If I am not mistaken, we have -laid down similar caches."</p> - -<p>After a moment the Archeologist continued, "My reconstruction of their -history, subsequent to the laying down of the cache, has been largely -hypothetical. I can only guess at the reasons for their decline and -fall. Supplementary material has been very slow in coming in, though -we are still making extensive excavations at widely separated points. -Here are the last reports." He tossed the Explorer a small metal-leaf -pamphlet. It flew with a curiously slow motion.</p> - -<p>"That's what struck me so queer right from the start," the Explorer -observed, putting the pamphlet aside after a glance. "If these -creatures were relatively advanced, why haven't we learned about them -before? They must have left so many things—buildings, machines, -engineering projects, some of them on a large scale. You'd think we'd -be turning up traces everywhere."</p> - -<p>"I have four answers to that," the Archeologist replied. "The first -is the most obvious. Time. Geologic ages of it. The second is more -subtle. What if we should have been looking in the wrong place? I mean, -what if the creatures occupied a very different portion of the Earth -than our own? Third, it's possible that atomic energy, out of control, -finished the race and destroyed its traces. The present distribution of -radioactive compounds throughout the Earth's surface lends some support -to this theory.</p> - -<p>"Fourth," he went on, "it's my belief that when an intelligent species -begins to retrogress, it tends to destroy, or, rather, debase all the -things it has laboriously created. Large buildings are torn down to -make smaller ones. Machines are broken up and worked into primitive -tools and weapons. There is a kind of unraveling or erasing. A cultural -Second Law of Thermodynamics begins to operate, whereby the intellect -and all its works are gradually degraded to the lowest level of meaning -and creativity."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>"But why?" The Explorer sounded anguished. "Why should any intelligent -species end like that? I grant the possibility of atomic power -getting out of hand, though one would have thought they'd have taken -the greatest precautions. Still, it could happen. But that fourth -answer—it's morbid."</p> - -<p>"Cultures and civilizations die," said the Archeologist evenly. "That -has happened repeatedly in our own history. Why not species? An -individual dies—and is there anything intrinsically more terrible in -the death of a species than in the death of an individual?"</p> - -<p>He paused. "With respect to the members of this one species, I think -that a certain temperamental instability hastened their end. Their -appetites and emotions were not sufficiently subordinated to their -understanding and to their sense of drama—their enjoyment of the -comedy and tragedy of existence. They were impatient and easily -incapacitated by frustration. They seem to have been singularly guilty -in their pleasures, behaving either like gloomy moralists or gluttons.</p> - -<p>"Because of taboos and an overgrown possessiveness," he continued, -"each individual tended to limit his affection to a tiny family; in -many cases he focused his love on himself alone. They set great store -by personal prestige, by the amassing of wealth and the exercise of -power. Their notable capacity for thought and manipulative activity was -expended on things rather than persons or feelings. Their technology -outstripped their psychology. They skimped fatally when it came to hard -thinking about the purpose of life and intellectual activity, and the -means for preserving them."</p> - -<p>Again the slow shadows drifted overhead.</p> - -<p>"And finally," the Archeologist said, "they were a strangely haunted -species. They seem to have been obsessed by the notion that others, -greater than themselves, had prospered before them and then died, -leaving them to rebuild a civilization from ruins. It was from those -others that they thought they derived the few words and symbols common -to all their languages."</p> - -<p>"Gods?" mused the Explorer.</p> - -<p>The Archeologist shrugged. "Who knows?"</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The Explorer turned away. His excitement had visibly evaporated, -leaving behind a cold and miserable residue of feeling. "I am not -sure I want to hear much more about them," he said. "They sound -too much like us. Perhaps it was a mistake, my coming here. Pardon -me, old friend, but out there in space even <i>our</i> emotions become -undisciplined. Everything becomes indescribably poignant. Moods -are tempestuous. You shift in an instant from zenith to nadir—and -remember, out there you can see both.</p> - -<p>"I was very eager to hear about this lost species," he added in a sad -voice. "I thought I would feel a kind of fellowship with them across -the eons. Instead, I touch only corpses. It reminds me of when, out in -space, there looms up before your prow, faint in the starlight, a dead -sun. They were a young race. They thought they were getting somewhere. -They promised themselves an eternity of effort. And all the while there -was wriggling toward them out of that future for which they yearned ... -oh, it's so completely futile and unfair."</p> - -<p>"I disagree," the Archeologist said spiritedly. "Really, your absence -from Earth has unsettled you even more than I first surmised. Look at -the matter squarely. Death comes to everything in the end. Our past -is strewn with our dead. That species died, it's true. But what they -achieved, they achieved. What happiness they had, they had. What they -did in their short span is as significant as what they might have done -had they lived a billion years. The present is always more important -than the future. And no creature can have all the future—it must be -shared, left to others."</p> - -<p>"Maybe so," the Explorer said slowly. "Yes, I guess you're right. But -I still feel a horrible wistfulness about them, and I hug to myself -the hope that a few of them escaped and set up a colony on some planet -we haven't yet visited." There was a long silence. Then the Explorer -turned back. "You old devil," he said in a manner that showed his gayer -and more boisterous mood had returned, though diminished, "you still -haven't told me anything definite about them."</p> - -<p>"So I haven't," replied the Archeologist with guileful innocence. -"Well, they were vertebrates."</p> - -<p>"Oh?"</p> - -<p>"Yes. What's more, they were mammals."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>"Mammals? I was expecting something different."</p> - -<p>"I thought you were."</p> - -<p>The Explorer shifted. "All this matter of evolutionary categories is -pretty cut-and-dried. Even a knowledge of how they looked doesn't -mean much. I'd like to approach them in a more intimate way. How did -they think of themselves? What did they call themselves? I know the -word won't mean anything to me, but it will give me a feeling—of -recognition."</p> - -<p>"I can't say the word," the Archeologist told him, "because I haven't -the proper vocal equipment. But I know enough of their script to be -able to write it for you as they would have written it. Incidentally, -it is one of those words common to all their languages, that they -attributed to an earlier race of beings."</p> - -<p>The Archeologist extended one of his eight tentacles toward the -blackboard. The suckers at its tip firmly grasped a bit of orange -crayon. Another of his tentacles took up the spectacles and adjusted -them over his three-inch protruding pupils.</p> - -<p>The eel-like glittering pet drifted back into the room and nosed -curiously about the crayon as it traced:</p> - -<p class="ph3">RAT</p> - - - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Later Than You Think, by Fritz Leiber - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LATER THAN YOU THINK *** - -***** This file should be named 50753-h.htm or 50753-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/0/7/5/50753/ - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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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/license - - -Title: Later Than You Think - -Author: Fritz Leiber - -Release Date: December 23, 2015 [EBook #50753] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LATER THAN YOU THINK *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - Later Than You Think - - By FRITZ LEIBER - - It's much later. The question is ... how late? - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Galaxy Science Fiction October 1950. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence - that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -Obviously the Archeologist's study belonged to an era vastly distant -from today. Familiar similarities here and there only sharpened the -feeling of alienage. The sunlight that filtered through the windows in -the ceiling had a wan and greenish cast and was augmented by radiation -from some luminous material impregnating the walls and floor. Even the -wide desk and the commodious hassocks glowed with a restful light. -Across the former were scattered metal-backed wax tablets, styluses, -and a pair of large and oddly formed spectacles. The crammed bookcases -were not particularly unusual, but the books were bound in metal and -the script on their spines would have been utterly unfamiliar to the -most erudite of modern linguists. One of the books, lying open on a -hassock, showed leaves of a thin, flexible, rustless metal covered -with luminous characters. Between the bookcases were phosphorescent oil -paintings, mainly of sea bottoms, in somber greens and browns. Their -style, neither wholly realistic nor abstract, would have baffled the -historian of art. - -A blackboard with large colored crayons hinted equally at the -schoolroom and the studio. - -In the center of the room, midway to the ceiling, hung a fish with -irridescent scales of breathtaking beauty. So invisible was its means -of support that--also taking into account the strange paintings and the -greenish light--one would have sworn that the object was to create an -underwater scene. - -The Explorer made his entrance in a theatrical swirl of movement. He -embraced the Archeologist with a warmth calculated to startle that -crusty old fellow. Then he settled himself on a hassock, looked up -and asked a question in a speech and idiom so different from any we -know that it must be called another means of communication rather than -another language. The import was, "Well, what about it?" - -If the Archeologist were taken aback, he concealed it. His expression -showed only pleasure at being reunited with a long-absent friend. - -"What about what?" he queried. - -"About your discovery!" - -"What discovery?" The Archeologist's incomprehension was playful. - -The Explorer threw up his arms. "Why, what else but your discovery, -here on Earth, of the remains of an intelligent species? It's the find -of the age! Am I going to have to coax you? Out with it!" - -"I didn't make the discovery," the other said tranquilly. "I only -supervised the excavations and directed the correlation of material. -_You_ ought to be doing the talking. _You're_ the one who's just -returned from the stars." - -"Forget that." The Explorer brushed the question aside. "As soon as -our spaceship got within radio range of Earth, they started to send -us a continuous newscast covering the period of our absence. One of -the items, exasperatingly brief, mentioned your discovery. It captured -my imagination. I couldn't wait to hear the details." He paused, then -confessed, "You get so eager out there in space--a metal-filmed droplet -of life lost in immensity. You rediscover your emotions...." He -changed color, then finished rapidly, "As soon as I could decently get -away, I came straight to you. I wanted to hear about it from the best -authority--yourself." - - * * * * * - -The Archeologist regarded him quizzically. "I'm pleased that you should -think of me and my work, and I'm very happy to see you again. But admit -it now, isn't there something a bit odd about your getting so worked -up over this thing? I can understand that after your long absence from -Earth, any news of Earth would seem especially important. But isn't -there an additional reason?" - -The Explorer twisted impatiently. "Oh, I suppose there is. -Disappointment, for one thing. We were hoping to get in touch with -intelligent life out there. We were specially trained in techniques for -establishing mental contact with alien intelligent life forms. Well, we -found some planets with life upon them, all right. But it was primitive -life, not worth bothering about." - -Again he hesitated embarrassedly. "Out there you get to thinking of -the preciousness of intelligence. There's so little of it, and it's so -lonely. And we so greatly need intercourse with another intelligent -species to give depth and balance to our thoughts. I suppose I set -too much store by my hopes of establishing a contact." He paused. "At -any rate, when I heard that what we were looking for, you had found -here at home--even though dead and done for--I felt that at least it -was something. I was suddenly very eager. It is odd, I know, to get -so worked up about an extinct species--as if my interest could mean -anything to them now--but that's the way it hit me." - - * * * * * - -Several small shadows crossed the windows overhead. They might have -been birds, except they moved too slowly. - -"I think I understand," the Archeologist said softly. - -"So get on with it and tell me about your discovery!" the Explorer -exploded. - -"I've already told you that it wasn't my discovery," the Archeologist -reminded him. "A few years after your expedition left, there was begun -a detailed resurvey of Earth's mineral resources. In the course of -some deep continental borings, one party discovered a cache--either a -very large box or a rather small room--with metallic walls of great -strength and toughness. Evidently its makers had intended it for the -very purpose of carrying a message down through the ages. It proved to -contain artifacts; models of buildings, vehicles, and machines, objects -of art, pictures, and books--hundreds of books, along with elaborate -pictorial dictionaries for interpreting them. So now we even understand -their languages." - -"Languages?" interrupted the Explorer. "That's queer. Somehow one -thinks of an alien species as having just one language." - -"Like our own, this species had several, though there were some words -and symbols that were alike in all their languages. These words and -symbols seem to have come down unchanged from their most distant -prehistory." - -The Explorer burst out, "I am not interested in all that dry stuff! -Give me the wet! What were they like? How did they live? What did they -create? What did they want?" - -The Archeologist gently waved aside the questions. "All in good time. -If I am to tell you everything you want to know, I must tell it my own -way. Now that you are back on Earth, you will have to reacquire those -orderly and composed habits of thought which you have partly lost in -the course of your wild interstellar adventurings." - -"Curse you, I think you're just trying to tantalize me." - -The Archeologist's expression showed that this was not altogether -untrue. He casually fondled an animal that had wriggled up onto his -desk, and which looked rather more like an eel than a snake. "Cute -little brute, isn't it?" he remarked. When it became apparent that the -Explorer wasn't to be provoked into another outburst, he continued, "It -became my task to interpret the contents of the cache, to reconstruct -its makers' climb from animalism and savagery to civilization, their -rather rapid spread across the world's surface, their first fumbling -attempts to escape from the Earth." - - * * * * * - -"They had spaceships?" - -"It's barely possible. I rather hope they did, since it would mean -the chance of a survival elsewhere, though the negative results of -your expedition rather lessen that." He went on, "The cache was laid -down when they were first attempting space flight, just after their -discovery of atomic power, in the first flush of their youth. It was -probably created in a kind of exuberant fancifulness, with no serious -belief that it would ever serve the purpose for which it was intended." -He looked at the Explorer strangely. "If I am not mistaken, we have -laid down similar caches." - -After a moment the Archeologist continued, "My reconstruction of their -history, subsequent to the laying down of the cache, has been largely -hypothetical. I can only guess at the reasons for their decline and -fall. Supplementary material has been very slow in coming in, though -we are still making extensive excavations at widely separated points. -Here are the last reports." He tossed the Explorer a small metal-leaf -pamphlet. It flew with a curiously slow motion. - -"That's what struck me so queer right from the start," the Explorer -observed, putting the pamphlet aside after a glance. "If these -creatures were relatively advanced, why haven't we learned about them -before? They must have left so many things--buildings, machines, -engineering projects, some of them on a large scale. You'd think we'd -be turning up traces everywhere." - -"I have four answers to that," the Archeologist replied. "The first -is the most obvious. Time. Geologic ages of it. The second is more -subtle. What if we should have been looking in the wrong place? I mean, -what if the creatures occupied a very different portion of the Earth -than our own? Third, it's possible that atomic energy, out of control, -finished the race and destroyed its traces. The present distribution of -radioactive compounds throughout the Earth's surface lends some support -to this theory. - -"Fourth," he went on, "it's my belief that when an intelligent species -begins to retrogress, it tends to destroy, or, rather, debase all the -things it has laboriously created. Large buildings are torn down to -make smaller ones. Machines are broken up and worked into primitive -tools and weapons. There is a kind of unraveling or erasing. A cultural -Second Law of Thermodynamics begins to operate, whereby the intellect -and all its works are gradually degraded to the lowest level of meaning -and creativity." - - * * * * * - -"But why?" The Explorer sounded anguished. "Why should any intelligent -species end like that? I grant the possibility of atomic power -getting out of hand, though one would have thought they'd have taken -the greatest precautions. Still, it could happen. But that fourth -answer--it's morbid." - -"Cultures and civilizations die," said the Archeologist evenly. "That -has happened repeatedly in our own history. Why not species? An -individual dies--and is there anything intrinsically more terrible in -the death of a species than in the death of an individual?" - -He paused. "With respect to the members of this one species, I think -that a certain temperamental instability hastened their end. Their -appetites and emotions were not sufficiently subordinated to their -understanding and to their sense of drama--their enjoyment of the -comedy and tragedy of existence. They were impatient and easily -incapacitated by frustration. They seem to have been singularly guilty -in their pleasures, behaving either like gloomy moralists or gluttons. - -"Because of taboos and an overgrown possessiveness," he continued, -"each individual tended to limit his affection to a tiny family; in -many cases he focused his love on himself alone. They set great store -by personal prestige, by the amassing of wealth and the exercise of -power. Their notable capacity for thought and manipulative activity was -expended on things rather than persons or feelings. Their technology -outstripped their psychology. They skimped fatally when it came to hard -thinking about the purpose of life and intellectual activity, and the -means for preserving them." - -Again the slow shadows drifted overhead. - -"And finally," the Archeologist said, "they were a strangely haunted -species. They seem to have been obsessed by the notion that others, -greater than themselves, had prospered before them and then died, -leaving them to rebuild a civilization from ruins. It was from those -others that they thought they derived the few words and symbols common -to all their languages." - -"Gods?" mused the Explorer. - -The Archeologist shrugged. "Who knows?" - - * * * * * - -The Explorer turned away. His excitement had visibly evaporated, -leaving behind a cold and miserable residue of feeling. "I am not -sure I want to hear much more about them," he said. "They sound -too much like us. Perhaps it was a mistake, my coming here. Pardon -me, old friend, but out there in space even _our_ emotions become -undisciplined. Everything becomes indescribably poignant. Moods -are tempestuous. You shift in an instant from zenith to nadir--and -remember, out there you can see both. - -"I was very eager to hear about this lost species," he added in a sad -voice. "I thought I would feel a kind of fellowship with them across -the eons. Instead, I touch only corpses. It reminds me of when, out in -space, there looms up before your prow, faint in the starlight, a dead -sun. They were a young race. They thought they were getting somewhere. -They promised themselves an eternity of effort. And all the while there -was wriggling toward them out of that future for which they yearned ... -oh, it's so completely futile and unfair." - -"I disagree," the Archeologist said spiritedly. "Really, your absence -from Earth has unsettled you even more than I first surmised. Look at -the matter squarely. Death comes to everything in the end. Our past -is strewn with our dead. That species died, it's true. But what they -achieved, they achieved. What happiness they had, they had. What they -did in their short span is as significant as what they might have done -had they lived a billion years. The present is always more important -than the future. And no creature can have all the future--it must be -shared, left to others." - -"Maybe so," the Explorer said slowly. "Yes, I guess you're right. But -I still feel a horrible wistfulness about them, and I hug to myself -the hope that a few of them escaped and set up a colony on some planet -we haven't yet visited." There was a long silence. Then the Explorer -turned back. "You old devil," he said in a manner that showed his gayer -and more boisterous mood had returned, though diminished, "you still -haven't told me anything definite about them." - -"So I haven't," replied the Archeologist with guileful innocence. -"Well, they were vertebrates." - -"Oh?" - -"Yes. What's more, they were mammals." - - * * * * * - -"Mammals? I was expecting something different." - -"I thought you were." - -The Explorer shifted. "All this matter of evolutionary categories is -pretty cut-and-dried. Even a knowledge of how they looked doesn't -mean much. I'd like to approach them in a more intimate way. How did -they think of themselves? What did they call themselves? I know the -word won't mean anything to me, but it will give me a feeling--of -recognition." - -"I can't say the word," the Archeologist told him, "because I haven't -the proper vocal equipment. But I know enough of their script to be -able to write it for you as they would have written it. Incidentally, -it is one of those words common to all their languages, that they -attributed to an earlier race of beings." - -The Archeologist extended one of his eight tentacles toward the -blackboard. The suckers at its tip firmly grasped a bit of orange -crayon. Another of his tentacles took up the spectacles and adjusted -them over his three-inch protruding pupils. - -The eel-like glittering pet drifted back into the room and nosed -curiously about the crayon as it traced: - - RAT - - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Later Than You Think, by Fritz Leiber - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LATER THAN YOU THINK *** - -***** This file should be named 50753.txt or 50753.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/0/7/5/50753/ - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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