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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: The Big Engine - -Author: Fritz Leiber - -Release Date: March 25, 2016 [EBook #51549] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BIG ENGINE *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - THE BIG ENGINE - - By FRITZ LEIBER - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Galaxy Magazine February 1962. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - - - - Have you found out about the Big - Engine? It's all around us, you - know--can't you hear it even now? - - -There are all sorts of screwy theories (the Professor said) of what -makes the wheels of the world go round. There's a boy in Chicago who -thinks we're all of us just the thoughts of a green cat; when the green -cat dies we'll all puff to nothing like smoke. There's a man in the -west who thinks all women are witches and run the world by conjure -magic. There's a man in the east who believes all rich people belong to -a secret society that's a lot tighter and tougher than the Mafia and -that has a monopoly of power-secrets and pleasure-secrets other people -don't dream exist. - -Me, I think the wheels of the world just go. I decided that forty -years ago and I've never since seen or heard or read anything to make -me change my mind. - -I was a stoker on a lake boat then (the Professor continued, delicately -sipping smoke from his long thin cigarette). I was as stupid as they -make them, but I liked to think. Whenever I'd get a chance I'd go to -one of the big libraries and make them get me all sorts of books. -That was how guys started calling me the Professor. I'd get books on -philosophy, metaphysics, science, even religion. I'd read them and try -to figure out the world. What was it all about, anyway? Why was I here? -What was the point in the whole business of getting born and working -and dying? What was the use of it? Why'd it have to go on and on? - -And why'd it have to be so complicated? - -Why all the building and tearing down? Why'd there have to be cities, -with crowded streets and horse cars and cable cars and electric cars -and big open-work steel boxes built to the sky to be hung with stone -and wood--my closest friend got killed falling off one of those steel -boxkites. Shouldn't there be some simpler way of doing it all? Why did -things have to be so mixed up that a man like myself couldn't have a -single clear decent thought? - -More than that, why weren't people a real part of the world? Why didn't -they show more honest-to-God response? When you slept with a woman, -why was it something you had and she didn't? Why, when you went to a -prize fight, were the bruisers only so much meat, and the crowd a lot -of little screaming popinjays? Why was a war nothing but blather and -blowup and bother? Why'd everybody have to go through their whole lives -so dead, doing everything so methodical and prissy like a Sunday School -picnic or an orphan's parade? - - * * * * * - -And then, when I was reading one of the science books, it came to me. -The answer was all there, printed out plain to see only nobody saw it. -It was just this: Nobody was really alive. - -Back of other people's foreheads there weren't any real thoughts or -minds, or love or fear, to explain things. The whole universe--stars -and men and dirt and worms and atoms, the whole shooting match--was -just one great big engine. It didn't take mind or life or anything else -to run the engine. It just ran. - -Now one thing about science. It doesn't lie. Those men who wrote those -science books that showed me the answer, they had no more minds than -anybody else. Just darkness in their brains, but because they were -machines built to use science, they couldn't help but get the right -answers. They were like the electric brains they've got now, but hadn't -then, that give out the right answer when you feed in the question. I'd -like to feed in the question, "What's Life?" to one of those machines -and see what came out. Just figures, I suppose. I read somewhere that -if a billion monkeys had typewriters and kept pecking away at them -they'd eventually turn out all the Encyclopedia Brittanica in trillions -and trillions of years. Well, they've done it all right, and in jig -time. - -They're doing it now. - -A lot of philosophy and psychology books I worked through really fit -in beautifully. There was Watson's _Behaviorism_ telling how we needn't -even assume that people are conscious to explain their actions. There -was Leibitz's _Monadology_, with its theory that we're all of us lonely -atoms that are completely out of touch and don't effect each other in -the slightest, but only seem to ... because all our little clockwork -motors were started at the same time in pre-established harmony. We -_seem_ to be responding to each other, but actually we're just a bunch -of wooden-minded puppets. Jerk one puppet up into the flies and the -others go on acting as if exactly nothing at all had happened. - -So there it was all laid out for me (the Professor went on, carefully -pinching out the end of his cigarette). That was why there was no -honest-to-God response in people. They were machines. - -The fighters were machines made for fighting. The people that watched -them were machines for stamping and screaming and swearing. The bankers -had banking cogs in their bellies, the crooks had crooked cams. A woman -was just a loving machine, all nicely adjusted to give you a good time -(sometimes!) but the farthest star was nearer to you than the mind -behind that mouth you kissed. - -See what I mean? People just machines, set to do a certain job and -then quietly rust away. If you kept on being the machine you were -supposed to be, well and good. Then your actions fitted with other -people's. But if you didn't, if you started doing something else, then -the others didn't respond. They just went on doing what was called for. - -It wouldn't matter what you did, they'd just go on making the motions -they were set to make. They might be set to make love, and you might -decide you wanted to fight. They'd go on making love while you fought -them. Or it might happen the other way--seems to, more often! - -Or somebody might be talking about Edison. And you'd happen to say -something about Ingersoll. But he'd just go on talking about Edison. - -You were all alone. - - * * * * * - -Except for a few others--not more than one in a hundred thousand, I -guess--who wake up and figure things out. And they mostly go crazy and -run themselves to death, or else turn mean. Mostly they turn mean. They -get a cheap little kick out of pushing things around that can't push -back. All over the world you find them--little gangs of three or four, -half a dozen--who've waked up, but just to their cheap kicks. Maybe -it's a couple of coppers in 'Frisco, a schoolteacher in K.C., some -artists in New York, some rich kids in Florida, some undertakers in -London--who've found that all the people walking around are just dead -folk and to be treated no decenter, who see how bad things are and get -their fun out of making it a little worse. Just a mean _little_ bit -worse. They don't dare to destroy in a big way, because they know the -machine feeds them and tends them, and because they're always scared -they'd be noticed by gangs like themselves and wiped out. They haven't -the guts to really wreck the whole shebang. But they get a kick out of -scribbling their dirty pictures on it, out of meddling and messing with -it. - -I've seen some of their fun, as they call it, sometimes hidden away, -sometimes in the open streets. - -You've seen a clerk dressing a figure in a store window? Well, suppose -he slapped its face. Suppose a kid stuck pins in a calico pussy-cat, or -threw pepper in the eyes of a doll. - -No decent live man would have anything to do with nickel sadism or dime -paranoia like that. He'd either go back to his place in the machine and -act out the part set for him, or else he'd hide away like me and live -as quiet as he could, not stirring things up. Like a mouse in a dynamo -or an ant in an atomics plant. - -(The Professor went to the window and opened it, letting the sour old -smoke out and the noises of the city in.) - - * * * * * - -Listen (he said), listen to the great mechanical symphony, the big -black combo. The airplanes are the double bass. Have you noticed how -you can always hear one nowadays? When one walks out of the sky another -walks in. - -Presses and pumps round out the bass section. Listen to them rumble -and thump! Tonight they've got an old steam locomotive helping. Maybe -they're giving a benefit show for the old duffer. - -Cars and traffic--they're the strings. Mostly cellos and violas. They -purr and wail and whine and keep trying to get out of their section. - -Brasses? To me the steel-on-steel of streetcars and El trains always -sounds like trumpets and cornets. Strident, metallic, fiery cold. - -Hear that siren way off? It's a clarinet. The ship horns are tubas, -the diesel horn's an oboe. And that lovely dreadful french horn is an -electric saw cutting down the last tree. - -But what a percussion section they've got! The big stuff, like -streetcar bells jangling, is easy to catch, but you have to really -listen to get the subtleties--the buzz of a defective neon sign, the -click of a stoplight changing. - -Sometimes you do get human voices, I'll admit, but they're not like -they are in Beethoven's _Ninth_ or Holst's _Planets_. - -_There's_ the real sound of the universe (the Professor concluded, -shutting the window). That's your heavenly choir. That's the music -of the spheres the old alchemists kept listening for--if they'd just -stayed around a little longer they'd all have been deafened by it. Oh, -to think that Schopenhauer was bothered by the crack of carters' whips! - -And now it's time for this mouse to tuck himself in his nest in the -dynamo. 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