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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. 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 Lonely - -Author: Judith Merril - -Illustrator: Virgil Finlay - Lutjens - -Release Date: September 20, 2016 [EBook #53102] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LONELY *** - - - - -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="379" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="titlepage"> -<h1>THE LONELY</h1> - -<p>BY JUDITH MERRIL</p> - -<p>ILLUSTRATED BY LUTJENS</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Worlds of Tomorrow October 1963<br /> -Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that<br /> -the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p class="ph3">If we practice our "Space Speech" and listen real<br /> -hard—Is this the sort of thing we're going to hear?</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>TO: The Hon. Natarajan Roi Hennessy, Chairman, Committee on -Intercultural Relations, Solar Council, Eros.</p> - -<p>FROM: Dr. Shlomo Mouna, Sr. Anthropologist, Project Ozma XII, Pluto -Station.</p> - -<p>DATE: 10/9/92, TC.</p> - -<p>TRANSMISSION: VIA: Tight beam, scrambled. SENT: 1306 hrs, TST. RCVD: -1947 hrs, TST</p> - -<p>Dear Nat:</p> - -<p>Herewith, a much condensed, heavily annotated, and topsecret coded -transcript of a program we just picked up. The official title is -GU#79, and the content pretty well confirms some of our earlier -assumptions about the whole series, as this one concerns us directly, -and we have enough background information, including specific dates, to -get a much more complete and stylistic translation than before.</p> - -<p>I'd say the hypotheses that these messages represent a "Galactic -University" lecture series broadcast from somewhere near Galactic -Center, through some medium a damn sight faster than light, now seems -very reasonable.</p> - -<p>This one seemed to come from Altair, which would date transmission from -there only a few years after some incidents described in script. Some -of the material also indicates probable nature of original format, and -I find it uncomfortable. Also reraises question of whether Altair, -Arcturus, Castor, etc., relay stations are aimed at us? Although the -content makes that doubtful.</p> - -<p>Full transcript, film, etc. will go out through channels, as soon -as you let me know which channels. This time I am not pleading for -declassification. I think of some Spaserve reactions and—frankly I -wonder if it shouldn't be limited to SC Intercult Chairmen and Ozma Sr. -Anthropoids—and sometimes I wonder about thee.</p> - -<p class="ph4">Cheery reading.<br /> -Shlomo</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>TRANSCRIPT, GU#79, Condensed Version, edited by SM, 10/9/92, TC. -(NRH: All material in parens is in my words—summarizing, commenting, -and/or describing visual material where indicated. Straight text is -verbatim, though cut as indicated. Times, measurements, etc., have -been translated from Standard Galactic or Aldebaran local to Terran -Standard; and bear in mind that words like "perceive" are often very -rough translations for SG concepts more inclusive than our language -provides for.—SM)</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>(Open with distance shot of Spaserve crew visiting Woman of Earth -statue on Aldebaran VI. Closeup of reverent faces. Shots of old L-1, -still in orbit, and jump-ship trailing it. Repeats first shot, then -to Lecturer. You may have seen this one before. Sort of electric eel -type. Actually makes sparks when he's being funny.)</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The image you have just perceived is symbolic, in several senses. -First, the statue was created by the Arlemites, the native race of -Aldebaran VI (!! Yes, Virginia, there <i>are</i> aborigines!!) in an effort -to use emotional symbols to bridge the gap in communications between -two highly dissimilar species. Second: due to the farcical failure -of this original intent, the structure has now become a vitally -significant symbol—you perceived the impact—to the other species -involved, the Terrans, a newly emerged race from Sol III. (Note that -"you perceived." We must accept the implication that the original -broadcasting format provides means of projecting emotional content.) -Finally, this two-fold symbol relates in one sense (Shooting sparks -like mad here. Professional humor pretty much the same all over, hey?) -to the phenomenon of the paradox of absolute universality and infinite -variety inherent in the symbolism.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>(Next section is a sort of refresher-review of earlier lectures. -Subject of the whole course appears to be, roughly, "Problems -of disparate symbolism in interspecies communications." This -lecture—don't laugh—is "Symbols of Sexuality." Excerpts from -review:—)</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The phenomenon of symbolism is an integral part of the development of -communicating intelligence. Distinctions of biological construction, -ecological situation, atmospheric and other geophysical conditions, -do of course profoundly influence the racially infantile phases -of intellectual-emotional-social development in all cultures ... -(but) ... from approximately that point in the linear development -of a civilization at which it is likely to make contact with other -cultures—that is, from the commencement of cultural maturity, -following the typically adolescent outburst of energy in which first -contact is generally accomplished ... (He describes this level at -some length in terms of a complex of: 1, astrophysical knowledge; 2, -control of basic matter-energy conversions, "mechanical or psial;" 3, -self-awareness of whole culture and of individuals in it; and 4, some -sociological phenomena for which I have no referents.) ... all cultures -appear to progress through a known sequence of i-e-s patterns ... -(and) ... despite differences in the <i>rate</i> of development, the -composite i-e-s curve for mature cultural development of all known -species is identical enough to permit reliable predictions for any -civilization, once located on the curve.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>(Then progresses to symbolism. Specific symbols, he says, vary even -more, between cultures, than language or other means of conscious -communication, as to wit—)</p> - -<p>It is self-evident that the specific symbols utilized by, for instance, -a septasexual, mechanophilic, auriphased species of freely locomotive -discrete individuals, will vary greatly from those of, let us say, a -mitotic, unicellular, intensely psioid, communal culture. (Which makes -it all the more striking, that) it is specifically in the <i>use of -symbols</i>, the general consciousness of their significance, the degree -of sophistication of the popularly recognized symbols, and the uses to -which they are put by the society as a whole, that we have found our -most useful constant, so far, for purposes of locating a given culture -on the curve.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>(Much more here about other aspects of cultural development, some of -which are cyclical, some linear—all fascinating but not essential to -understanding of what follows.)</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Sexuality has until recently been such a rare phenomenon among -civilized species that we had casually assumed it to be something of -a drawback to the development of intelligence. Such sexual races as -we did know seemed to have developed in spite of their biological -peculiarity, but usually not until after the mechanical flair that -often seemed to accompany the phenomenon had enabled them to escape -their planet of origin for a more favorable environment.</p> - -<p>I say more favorable because sexuality does seem to develop as an -evolutionary compensation where (some terms untranslateable, some -very broad, but generally describing circumstances, like extra-dense -atmosphere, in which the normal rate of cosmic radiation was reduced to -a degree that inhibited mutation and thus, evolution)....</p> - -<p>As I said, this seemed almost a freak occurrence, and so it was, and -is, here in the heart of the Galaxy. But in the more thinly populated -spiral arms, the normal rate of radiation is considerably lower. It is -only in the last few centuries that we have begun to contact with any -considerable numbers of species from these sectors—and the incidence -of sexuality among these peoples is markedly higher than before.</p> - -<p>Recently, then, there has been fresh cause to investigate the causes -and effects of sexuality; and there has been a comparative wealth of -new material to work with.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>(Here he goes into a review of the variety of sexual modes, ranging -from two to seventeen sexes within a species, and more exotica-erotica -of means, manners, and mores than a mere two-sexed biped can readily -imagine. Restrain yourself. It's all in the full transcript.)</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>But let me for the moment confine myself to the simplest and most -common situation, involving only two sexes. Recent investigations -indicate that there is an apparently inevitable psychological effect -of combining two essentially distinct sub-species in one genetic unit. -(Sparks like mad.) I perceive that many of you have just experienced -the same delight-dismay the first researchers felt at recognizing -this so-obvious and so-overlooked parallel with the familiar cases of -symbiosis.</p> - -<p>The Terrans, mentioned earlier, are in many ways prototypical of -sexuality in an intelligent species, and the usual and rather dramatic -events on Aldebaran VI have added greatly to our insights into the -psychology of sexuality in general.</p> - -<p>In this culture, dualism is very deeprooted, affecting every aspect -of the i-e-s complex: not just philosophy and engineering, but -mathematics, for instance, and mystique.</p> - -<p>This cultural attitude starts with a duality, or two-sided symmetry, -of body structure. (Throughout this discussion he uses visual -material—photos, diagrams, etc., of human bodies, anatomy, physiology, -habitat, eating and mating habits, etc. Also goes off into some -intriguing speculation of the chicken-or-egg type: is physical -structure influenced by mental attitudes, or is it some inherent -tendency of a chromosome pattern with <i>pairs</i> of genes from <i>pairs</i> of -parents?)</p> - -<p>In this respect, the Terrans are almost perfect prototypes, with -two pairs of limbs, for locomotion and manipulation, extending from -a central—single—abdominal cavity, which, although containing -some single organs as well as some in pairs, is so symmetrically -proportioned that the first assumption from an exterior view would be -that everything inside was equally mirror-imaged. Actually, the main -circulatory organ is single—though consisting of two valves; the main -breathing apparatus is paired; the digestive system is single—although -food intake is through an orifice with paired lips and two rows of -teeth. In both "male" and "female" types, the organ of sexual contact -is single, whereas the gamete-producers are pairs. There is a single, -roundish head set on top of the abdomen, containing the primary sensory -organs, all of which occur in pairs. Even the brain is paired!</p> - -<p>I mentioned earlier that it is typical of the sexual races that the -flair for physical engineering is rather stronger than the instinct for -communication. This was an observed but little-understood fact for many -centuries; it was not till this phenomenon of dualism (and triadism for -the three-sexed, etc.) was studied that the earlier observation was -clarified. If you will consider briefly the various primitive sources -of power and transport, you will realize that—outside of the psi-based -techniques—most of these are involved with principles of symmetry -and/or equivalence; these concepts are obvious to the two-sexed. On -the other hand, the principle of unity, underlying all successful -communication—physical, verbal, psial, or other—and which is also the -basis for the application of psi to engineering problems—is for these -species, in early stages, an almost mystical quality.</p> - -<p>As with most life-forms, the reproductive act is, among sexual beings, -both physically pleasurable and biologically compulsive, so that it is -early equated with religio-mystic sensations. Among sexual species, -these attitudes are intensified by the communicative aspects of the -act. (Cartoon-type diagrams here which frankly gave me to think a bit!) -We have much to learn yet about the psychology of this phenomenon, but -enough has been established to make clear that the concept of unity -for these races is initially almost entirely related to the use of -their sexuality, and is later extended to other areas—religion and the -arts of communication at first—with a mystical—indeed often reverent -attitude!</p> - -<p>I hardly need to remind you that the tendencies I have been discussing -are the primitive and underlying ones. Obviously, at the point of -contact, any species must have acquired at least enough sophistication -in the field of physics—quanta, unified field theory, and atomic -transmutation for a start—to have begun to look away from the -essentially blind alley of dualistic thinking. But the extent to which -these Terrans were still limited by their early developmental pattern -is indicated by the almost unbelievable fact that they developed -ultra-dimensional transport <i>before</i> discovering any more effective -channels of communication than the electromagnetic!</p> - -<p>Thus their first contacts with older civilizations were physical; -and, limited as they still are almost entirely to aural and visual -communication, they were actually unable to perceive their very first -contact on Aldebaran VI.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>(Shot of Prof Eel in absolute sparkling convulsions goes to distance -shots of planet and antiquated Earth spaceship in orbit: L-1 again. -Then suborb launch drops, spirals to surface. Twenty bulky spacesuited -figures emerge—not the same as in opening shots. This looks like -actual photographic record of landing, which seems unlikely. Beautiful -damn reconstruction, if so. Narration commences with Aldebaran date. I -substitute Terran Calendar date we know for same, and accept gift of -one more Rosetta Stone.)</p> - -<p>This time is the year 2053. For more than six decades, this primitive -giant of space has ployed its way through the restrictive medium of -slowspace. Twice before in its travels, the great ship has paused.</p> - -<p>First at Procyon, where they found the system both uninhabited and -uninviting; and at the time they did not yet know what urgent cause -they had to make a landing. (Our date for Procyon exploration, from L-1 -log, is 2016, which fits.)</p> - -<p>Then at Saiph, two decades later, when they could provide a bare -minimum of hospitality—no more than safe footing for their launches, -in which they would live while they tried to ensure their future -survival. But this system's planets offered little hope. One Earth-size -enveloped in horror-film type gases and nasty moistures. One more with -dense atmosphere of high acid content: probe from ship corroded in -minutes.</p> - -<p>They limped on. A half decade later they came to a time of decision, -and determined not to try for the next nearest star system, but for the -closest one from which their radio had received signs of intelligent -life: Aldebaran.</p> - -<p>What they had learned between Procyon and Saiph was that those of their -crew who were born in space were not viable. The ship had been planned -to continue, if necessary, long beyond the lifespan of its first -crew. The Terran planners had ingeniously bypassed their most acute -psychosocial problem, and staffed the ship with a starting crew of just -one sex. Forty females started the journey, with a supply of sperm from -one hundred genetically selected males carefully preserved on board.</p> - -<p>Sex determination in this species is in the male chromosome, and most -of the supply had been selected for production of females. The plan -was to maintain the ship in transit with single sexed population, and -restore the normal balance only at the end of the journey.</p> - -<p>The Terrans have apparently reached a level of self-awareness that -enables them to avoid the worst dangers of their own divisive quality, -while utilizing the advantages of this special (pun intended—Prof. -Eel was sparking again) ambivalence. Their biological peculiarities -have, among other things, developed a far greater tolerance in the -females for the type of physical constraints and social pressures that -were sure to accompany the long slow voyage. Males, on the other hand, -being more aggressive, and more responsive to hostile challenges, would -be needed for colonizing a strange planet. (Dissertation on mammals -here which says nothing new, but restates from an outsider's—rather -admiring—viewpoint with some distinction. Should be a textbook -classic—if we can ever release this thing.)</p> - -<p>That was the plan. But when the first females born on the trip came -to maturity, and could not conceive, the plan was changed. Three male -infants were born to females of the original complement—less than -half of whom, even then, were still alive and of child-bearing age.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>(Well, he tells it effectively, but adds nothing to what we know from -the log. Conflicts among the women led to death of one boy, eventual -suicide of another at adolescence. Remaining mature male fails to -impregnate known fertile women. Hope of landing while enough fertiles -remained to start again pretty well frustrated at Saiph. Decision to -try for first contact made with just five fertiles left, and nearest -system eight light years off—with Aldebaran still farther. Faint -fantastic hope still at landing, with just one child-bearer left—the -Matriarch, if you recall?)</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Remembering the reasons for their choice of Aldebaran, you can imagine -the reaction when that landing party, first, lost all radio signals -as they descended; then, could find no trace whatsoever—to their -senses—of habitation. The other planets were scouted, to no avail. The -signals on the Mother Ship's more powerful radio continued to come from -VI. One wild hypothesis was followed up by a thorough and fruitless -search of the upper atmosphere. The atmosphere was barely adequate to -sustain life at the surface. Beam tracing repeatedly located the signal -beacon in a mountain of VI, which showed—to the Terrans—no other sign -of intelligent life.</p> - -<p>The only logical conclusion was that they had followed a "lighthouse -beacon" to an empty world. The actual explanation, of course, was in -the nature of the Arlemites, the natives of Aldebaran VI.</p> - -<p>Originating as a social-colonizing lichen, on a heavy planet, -with—even at its prime—a barely adequate atmosphere, the Arlemites -combined smallness of individual size with limited locomotive powers -and superior air and water retentive ability. They developed, -inevitably, as a highly psioid culture—as far to one end of the -psichophysical scale as the Terrans are to the other. (My spelling -up there. I think it represents true meaning better than "psycho".) -The constantly thinning choice between physical relocation and a -conscious evolutionary measure which this mature psioid race was far -better equipped to undertake: the Arlemites now exist as a planet-wide -diffusion of single-celled entities, comprising just one individual, -and a whole species.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>(Visual stuff here helps establish concept—as if you or I just -extended the space between cells.)</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>It seems especially ironic that the Arlemites were not only one of -the oldest and most psioid of peoples—so that they had virtually -all the accumulated knowledge of the Galaxy at their disposal—but -were also symbiote products. This background might have enabled -them to comprehend the Terran mind and the problems confronting the -visitors—except for the accidental combination of almost total -psi-blindness in the Terrans, and the single-sexed complement of the -ship.</p> - -<p>The visitors could not perceive their hosts. The hosts could find no -way to communicate with the visitors. The full complement of the ship, -eventually, came down in launches, and lived in them, hopelessly, while -they learned that their viability had indeed been completely lost in -space. There was no real effort to return to the ship and continue the -voyage. The ranks thinned, discipline was lost, deaths proliferated. -Finally, it was only a child's last act of rebelliousness that -mitigated the futility of the tragedy.</p> - -<p>The last child saw the last adult die, and saw this immobility as an -opportunity to break the most inviolable of rules. She went out of the -launch—into near-airlessness that killed her within minutes.</p> - -<p>But minutes were more than enough, with the much longer time afterwards -for examination of the dead brain. It was through the mind of this one -child, young enough to be still partially free of the rigid mental -framework that made adult Terrans so inaccessible to Arlemites, that -the basis was gained for most of the knowledge we now have.</p> - -<p>Sorrowingly, the Arlemites generated an organism to decompose the -Terrans and their artifacts, removing all traces of tragedy from the -planet's surface. Meanwhile, they studied what they had learned, -against future needs.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The technological ingenuity of these young sexuals will be apparent -when I tell you that only four decades after the departure of that -ill-fated first ship, they were experimenting with ultra-dimensional -travel. Even at the time of the landing at Aldebaran, ultra-di scouts -were already exploring the systems closest to Sol. Eventually—within -a decade after the child's death—one of these came to Aldebaran, and -sighted the still-orbiting Mother Ship.</p> - -<p>A second landing was clearly imminent. The Arlemites had still devised -no way to aid this species to live in safety on their planet, nor did -they have any means to communicate adequately with psi-negatives whose -primary perceptions were aural and visual. But they did have, from the -child's mind, a working knowledge of the strongest emotional symbols -the culture knew, and they had long since devised a warning sign they -could erect for visual perception. The statue of the Woman of Earth was -constructed in an incredibly brief time through the combined efforts of -the whole Arlemite consciousness.</p> - -<p>They had no way to know that the new ship, designed for exploration, -not colonizing, and equipped with ultra-di drive, which obviated the -long slow traveling, was crewed entirely by males. Even had they known, -they did not yet comprehend the extreme duality of the two-sexed -double-culture. So they built their warning to the shape of the -strongest fear-and-hate symbols of a female.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" width="345" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>(Shot of statue, held for some time, angle moving slowly. No narration. -Assuming that emotional-projection notion—and I think we must—the -timing here is such that I believe they first project what they seem to -think a human female would feel, looking at it. I tried women on staff -here. They focused more on phallic than female component, but were -just as positive in reactions as males. ???? Anyhow, like I said, no -narration. What follows, though out of parens, is my own reaction.)</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>It seems more a return than a venture.</p> - -<p>The Woman waits, as she has waited ... always?... to greet her sons, -welcome us ... home?... She sits in beauty, in peacefulness, perfect, -complete, clean and fresh-colored ... new?... no, <i>forever</i> ... open, -welcoming, yet so impervious ... warm and ... untouchable?... rather, -<i>untouched</i> ... almost but never, forgotten Goddess ... Allmother, -Woman of Earth ... enveloped, enveloping, in warmth and peace ...</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>One stands back a bit: this is the peace of loving insight, of -unquesting womanhood, of great age and undying youth ... the peace of -the past, of life that is passed, of that immortality that nothing -mortal can ever achieve except through the frozen impression of living -consciousness that we call <i>art</i>.</p> - -<p>The young men are deeply moved and they make jokes. "Allmother," one -hears them say, sarcastically, "Old White Goddess, whaddya know?"</p> - -<p>Then they look up and are quiet under the smiling stone eyes. Even the -ancient obscenely placed spaceship in her lap is not quite absurd, as -it will seem in museum models—or tragic, as is the original overhead.</p> - -<p>(Prof. Eel goes on to summarize the conclusions that seem obvious to -him. Something is awfully wrong; that's obvious to me. How did they -manage to build something so powerful out of total miscomprehension? -What are we up against, anyhow? And, to get back to the matter of -channels, what do you think this little story would do to Spaserve -brass egos? Do you want to hold it top secret a while?)</p> - -<p>End of Transcript</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>TO: Dr. Shlomo Mouna, Sr. Anthropologist, Ozma XII, Pluto</p> - -<p>FROM: N. R. Hennessy, Solar Council Dome, Eros</p> - -<p>DATE: 10/10/92</p> - -<p>TRANSMISSION: VIA tight beam, scrambled. SENT: 0312 hrs. RCVD: 1027 -hrs.</p> - -<p>Dear Shlomo:</p> - -<p>Absolutely, let me see the full package before we release it elsewhere. -I've got a few more questions, like: Do they know we're receiving -it? How do we straighten them out? Or should we? Instinct says yes. -Tactics says it is advantageous to be underestimated. Think best you -come with package, and we'll braintrust it. Meantime, in reply to your -bafflement——</p> - -<p>"L" class ships, you should have known, are for "Lysistrata." Five of -them launched during brief Matriarchy at beginning of World Government -on Terra, following Final War. So sort out your symbols <i>now</i>.</p> - -<p>And good grief, where did the <i>other</i> four land?</p> - -<p class="ph4">NRH</p> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Lonely, by Judith Merril - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LONELY *** - -***** This file should be named 53102-h.htm or 53102-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/3/1/0/53102/ - -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 print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law 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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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 Lonely - -Author: Judith Merril - -Illustrator: Virgil Finlay - Lutjens - -Release Date: September 20, 2016 [EBook #53102] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LONELY *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - THE LONELY - - BY JUDITH MERRIL - - ILLUSTRATED BY LUTJENS - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Worlds of Tomorrow October 1963 - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - - - - If we practice our "Space Speech" and listen real - hard--Is this the sort of thing we're going to hear? - - -TO: The Hon. Natarajan Roi Hennessy, Chairman, Committee on -Intercultural Relations, Solar Council, Eros. - -FROM: Dr. Shlomo Mouna, Sr. Anthropologist, Project Ozma XII, Pluto -Station. - -DATE: 10/9/92, TC. - -TRANSMISSION: VIA: Tight beam, scrambled. SENT: 1306 hrs, TST. -RCVD: 1947 hrs, TST - -Dear Nat: - -Herewith, a much condensed, heavily annotated, and topsecret coded -transcript of a program we just picked up. The official title is -GU#79, and the content pretty well confirms some of our earlier -assumptions about the whole series, as this one concerns us directly, -and we have enough background information, including specific dates, to -get a much more complete and stylistic translation than before. - -I'd say the hypotheses that these messages represent a "Galactic -University" lecture series broadcast from somewhere near Galactic -Center, through some medium a damn sight faster than light, now seems -very reasonable. - -This one seemed to come from Altair, which would date transmission from -there only a few years after some incidents described in script. Some -of the material also indicates probable nature of original format, and -I find it uncomfortable. Also reraises question of whether Altair, -Arcturus, Castor, etc., relay stations are aimed at us? Although the -content makes that doubtful. - -Full transcript, film, etc. will go out through channels, as soon -as you let me know which channels. This time I am not pleading for -declassification. I think of some Spaserve reactions and--frankly I -wonder if it shouldn't be limited to SC Intercult Chairmen and Ozma Sr. -Anthropoids--and sometimes I wonder about thee. - -Cheery reading. - -Shlomo - - * * * * * - -TRANSCRIPT, GU#79, Condensed Version, edited by SM, 10/9/92, TC. -(NRH: All material in parens is in my words--summarizing, commenting, -and/or describing visual material where indicated. Straight text is -verbatim, though cut as indicated. Times, measurements, etc., have -been translated from Standard Galactic or Aldebaran local to Terran -Standard; and bear in mind that words like "perceive" are often very -rough translations for SG concepts more inclusive than our language -provides for.--SM) - - * * * * * - -(Open with distance shot of Spaserve crew visiting Woman of Earth -statue on Aldebaran VI. Closeup of reverent faces. Shots of old L-1, -still in orbit, and jump-ship trailing it. Repeats first shot, then -to Lecturer. You may have seen this one before. Sort of electric eel -type. Actually makes sparks when he's being funny.) - - * * * * * - -The image you have just perceived is symbolic, in several senses. -First, the statue was created by the Arlemites, the native race of -Aldebaran VI (!! Yes, Virginia, there _are_ aborigines!!) in an effort -to use emotional symbols to bridge the gap in communications between -two highly dissimilar species. Second: due to the farcical failure -of this original intent, the structure has now become a vitally -significant symbol--you perceived the impact--to the other species -involved, the Terrans, a newly emerged race from Sol III. (Note that -"you perceived." We must accept the implication that the original -broadcasting format provides means of projecting emotional content.) -Finally, this two-fold symbol relates in one sense (Shooting sparks -like mad here. Professional humor pretty much the same all over, hey?) -to the phenomenon of the paradox of absolute universality and infinite -variety inherent in the symbolism. - - * * * * * - -(Next section is a sort of refresher-review of earlier lectures. -Subject of the whole course appears to be, roughly, "Problems -of disparate symbolism in interspecies communications." This -lecture--don't laugh--is "Symbols of Sexuality." Excerpts from -review:--) - - * * * * * - -The phenomenon of symbolism is an integral part of the development of -communicating intelligence. Distinctions of biological construction, -ecological situation, atmospheric and other geophysical conditions, -do of course profoundly influence the racially infantile phases -of intellectual-emotional-social development in all cultures ... -(but) ... from approximately that point in the linear development -of a civilization at which it is likely to make contact with other -cultures--that is, from the commencement of cultural maturity, -following the typically adolescent outburst of energy in which first -contact is generally accomplished ... (He describes this level at -some length in terms of a complex of: 1, astrophysical knowledge; 2, -control of basic matter-energy conversions, "mechanical or psial;" 3, -self-awareness of whole culture and of individuals in it; and 4, some -sociological phenomena for which I have no referents.) ... all cultures -appear to progress through a known sequence of i-e-s patterns ... -(and) ... despite differences in the _rate_ of development, the -composite i-e-s curve for mature cultural development of all known -species is identical enough to permit reliable predictions for any -civilization, once located on the curve. - - * * * * * - -(Then progresses to symbolism. Specific symbols, he says, vary even -more, between cultures, than language or other means of conscious -communication, as to wit--) - -It is self-evident that the specific symbols utilized by, for instance, -a septasexual, mechanophilic, auriphased species of freely locomotive -discrete individuals, will vary greatly from those of, let us say, a -mitotic, unicellular, intensely psioid, communal culture. (Which makes -it all the more striking, that) it is specifically in the _use of -symbols_, the general consciousness of their significance, the degree -of sophistication of the popularly recognized symbols, and the uses to -which they are put by the society as a whole, that we have found our -most useful constant, so far, for purposes of locating a given culture -on the curve. - - * * * * * - -(Much more here about other aspects of cultural development, some of -which are cyclical, some linear--all fascinating but not essential to -understanding of what follows.) - - * * * * * - -Sexuality has until recently been such a rare phenomenon among -civilized species that we had casually assumed it to be something of -a drawback to the development of intelligence. Such sexual races as -we did know seemed to have developed in spite of their biological -peculiarity, but usually not until after the mechanical flair that -often seemed to accompany the phenomenon had enabled them to escape -their planet of origin for a more favorable environment. - -I say more favorable because sexuality does seem to develop as an -evolutionary compensation where (some terms untranslateable, some -very broad, but generally describing circumstances, like extra-dense -atmosphere, in which the normal rate of cosmic radiation was reduced to -a degree that inhibited mutation and thus, evolution).... - -As I said, this seemed almost a freak occurrence, and so it was, and -is, here in the heart of the Galaxy. But in the more thinly populated -spiral arms, the normal rate of radiation is considerably lower. It is -only in the last few centuries that we have begun to contact with any -considerable numbers of species from these sectors--and the incidence -of sexuality among these peoples is markedly higher than before. - -Recently, then, there has been fresh cause to investigate the causes -and effects of sexuality; and there has been a comparative wealth of -new material to work with. - - * * * * * - -(Here he goes into a review of the variety of sexual modes, ranging -from two to seventeen sexes within a species, and more exotica-erotica -of means, manners, and mores than a mere two-sexed biped can readily -imagine. Restrain yourself. It's all in the full transcript.) - - * * * * * - -But let me for the moment confine myself to the simplest and most -common situation, involving only two sexes. Recent investigations -indicate that there is an apparently inevitable psychological effect -of combining two essentially distinct sub-species in one genetic unit. -(Sparks like mad.) I perceive that many of you have just experienced -the same delight-dismay the first researchers felt at recognizing -this so-obvious and so-overlooked parallel with the familiar cases of -symbiosis. - -The Terrans, mentioned earlier, are in many ways prototypical of -sexuality in an intelligent species, and the usual and rather dramatic -events on Aldebaran VI have added greatly to our insights into the -psychology of sexuality in general. - -In this culture, dualism is very deeprooted, affecting every aspect -of the i-e-s complex: not just philosophy and engineering, but -mathematics, for instance, and mystique. - -This cultural attitude starts with a duality, or two-sided symmetry, -of body structure. (Throughout this discussion he uses visual -material--photos, diagrams, etc., of human bodies, anatomy, physiology, -habitat, eating and mating habits, etc. Also goes off into some -intriguing speculation of the chicken-or-egg type: is physical -structure influenced by mental attitudes, or is it some inherent -tendency of a chromosome pattern with _pairs_ of genes from _pairs_ of -parents?) - -In this respect, the Terrans are almost perfect prototypes, with -two pairs of limbs, for locomotion and manipulation, extending from -a central--single--abdominal cavity, which, although containing -some single organs as well as some in pairs, is so symmetrically -proportioned that the first assumption from an exterior view would be -that everything inside was equally mirror-imaged. Actually, the main -circulatory organ is single--though consisting of two valves; the main -breathing apparatus is paired; the digestive system is single--although -food intake is through an orifice with paired lips and two rows of -teeth. In both "male" and "female" types, the organ of sexual contact -is single, whereas the gamete-producers are pairs. There is a single, -roundish head set on top of the abdomen, containing the primary sensory -organs, all of which occur in pairs. Even the brain is paired! - -I mentioned earlier that it is typical of the sexual races that the -flair for physical engineering is rather stronger than the instinct for -communication. This was an observed but little-understood fact for many -centuries; it was not till this phenomenon of dualism (and triadism for -the three-sexed, etc.) was studied that the earlier observation was -clarified. If you will consider briefly the various primitive sources -of power and transport, you will realize that--outside of the psi-based -techniques--most of these are involved with principles of symmetry -and/or equivalence; these concepts are obvious to the two-sexed. On -the other hand, the principle of unity, underlying all successful -communication--physical, verbal, psial, or other--and which is also the -basis for the application of psi to engineering problems--is for these -species, in early stages, an almost mystical quality. - -As with most life-forms, the reproductive act is, among sexual beings, -both physically pleasurable and biologically compulsive, so that it is -early equated with religio-mystic sensations. Among sexual species, -these attitudes are intensified by the communicative aspects of the -act. (Cartoon-type diagrams here which frankly gave me to think a bit!) -We have much to learn yet about the psychology of this phenomenon, but -enough has been established to make clear that the concept of unity -for these races is initially almost entirely related to the use of -their sexuality, and is later extended to other areas--religion and the -arts of communication at first--with a mystical--indeed often reverent -attitude! - -I hardly need to remind you that the tendencies I have been discussing -are the primitive and underlying ones. Obviously, at the point of -contact, any species must have acquired at least enough sophistication -in the field of physics--quanta, unified field theory, and atomic -transmutation for a start--to have begun to look away from the -essentially blind alley of dualistic thinking. But the extent to which -these Terrans were still limited by their early developmental pattern -is indicated by the almost unbelievable fact that they developed -ultra-dimensional transport _before_ discovering any more effective -channels of communication than the electromagnetic! - -Thus their first contacts with older civilizations were physical; -and, limited as they still are almost entirely to aural and visual -communication, they were actually unable to perceive their very first -contact on Aldebaran VI. - - * * * * * - -(Shot of Prof Eel in absolute sparkling convulsions goes to distance -shots of planet and antiquated Earth spaceship in orbit: L-1 again. -Then suborb launch drops, spirals to surface. Twenty bulky spacesuited -figures emerge--not the same as in opening shots. This looks like -actual photographic record of landing, which seems unlikely. Beautiful -damn reconstruction, if so. Narration commences with Aldebaran date. I -substitute Terran Calendar date we know for same, and accept gift of -one more Rosetta Stone.) - -This time is the year 2053. For more than six decades, this primitive -giant of space has ployed its way through the restrictive medium of -slowspace. Twice before in its travels, the great ship has paused. - -First at Procyon, where they found the system both uninhabited and -uninviting; and at the time they did not yet know what urgent cause -they had to make a landing. (Our date for Procyon exploration, from L-1 -log, is 2016, which fits.) - -Then at Saiph, two decades later, when they could provide a bare -minimum of hospitality--no more than safe footing for their launches, -in which they would live while they tried to ensure their future -survival. But this system's planets offered little hope. One Earth-size -enveloped in horror-film type gases and nasty moistures. One more with -dense atmosphere of high acid content: probe from ship corroded in -minutes. - -They limped on. A half decade later they came to a time of decision, -and determined not to try for the next nearest star system, but for the -closest one from which their radio had received signs of intelligent -life: Aldebaran. - -What they had learned between Procyon and Saiph was that those of their -crew who were born in space were not viable. The ship had been planned -to continue, if necessary, long beyond the lifespan of its first -crew. The Terran planners had ingeniously bypassed their most acute -psychosocial problem, and staffed the ship with a starting crew of just -one sex. Forty females started the journey, with a supply of sperm from -one hundred genetically selected males carefully preserved on board. - -Sex determination in this species is in the male chromosome, and most -of the supply had been selected for production of females. The plan -was to maintain the ship in transit with single sexed population, and -restore the normal balance only at the end of the journey. - -The Terrans have apparently reached a level of self-awareness that -enables them to avoid the worst dangers of their own divisive quality, -while utilizing the advantages of this special (pun intended--Prof. -Eel was sparking again) ambivalence. Their biological peculiarities -have, among other things, developed a far greater tolerance in the -females for the type of physical constraints and social pressures that -were sure to accompany the long slow voyage. Males, on the other hand, -being more aggressive, and more responsive to hostile challenges, would -be needed for colonizing a strange planet. (Dissertation on mammals -here which says nothing new, but restates from an outsider's--rather -admiring--viewpoint with some distinction. Should be a textbook -classic--if we can ever release this thing.) - -That was the plan. But when the first females born on the trip came -to maturity, and could not conceive, the plan was changed. Three male -infants were born to females of the original complement--less than -half of whom, even then, were still alive and of child-bearing age. - - * * * * * - -(Well, he tells it effectively, but adds nothing to what we know from -the log. Conflicts among the women led to death of one boy, eventual -suicide of another at adolescence. Remaining mature male fails to -impregnate known fertile women. Hope of landing while enough fertiles -remained to start again pretty well frustrated at Saiph. Decision to -try for first contact made with just five fertiles left, and nearest -system eight light years off--with Aldebaran still farther. Faint -fantastic hope still at landing, with just one child-bearer left--the -Matriarch, if you recall?) - - * * * * * - -Remembering the reasons for their choice of Aldebaran, you can imagine -the reaction when that landing party, first, lost all radio signals -as they descended; then, could find no trace whatsoever--to their -senses--of habitation. The other planets were scouted, to no avail. The -signals on the Mother Ship's more powerful radio continued to come from -VI. One wild hypothesis was followed up by a thorough and fruitless -search of the upper atmosphere. The atmosphere was barely adequate to -sustain life at the surface. Beam tracing repeatedly located the signal -beacon in a mountain of VI, which showed--to the Terrans--no other sign -of intelligent life. - -The only logical conclusion was that they had followed a "lighthouse -beacon" to an empty world. The actual explanation, of course, was in -the nature of the Arlemites, the natives of Aldebaran VI. - -Originating as a social-colonizing lichen, on a heavy planet, -with--even at its prime--a barely adequate atmosphere, the Arlemites -combined smallness of individual size with limited locomotive powers -and superior air and water retentive ability. They developed, -inevitably, as a highly psioid culture--as far to one end of the -psichophysical scale as the Terrans are to the other. (My spelling -up there. I think it represents true meaning better than "psycho".) -The constantly thinning choice between physical relocation and a -conscious evolutionary measure which this mature psioid race was far -better equipped to undertake: the Arlemites now exist as a planet-wide -diffusion of single-celled entities, comprising just one individual, -and a whole species. - - * * * * * - -(Visual stuff here helps establish concept--as if you or I just -extended the space between cells.) - - * * * * * - -It seems especially ironic that the Arlemites were not only one of -the oldest and most psioid of peoples--so that they had virtually -all the accumulated knowledge of the Galaxy at their disposal--but -were also symbiote products. This background might have enabled -them to comprehend the Terran mind and the problems confronting the -visitors--except for the accidental combination of almost total -psi-blindness in the Terrans, and the single-sexed complement of the -ship. - -The visitors could not perceive their hosts. The hosts could find no -way to communicate with the visitors. The full complement of the ship, -eventually, came down in launches, and lived in them, hopelessly, while -they learned that their viability had indeed been completely lost in -space. There was no real effort to return to the ship and continue the -voyage. The ranks thinned, discipline was lost, deaths proliferated. -Finally, it was only a child's last act of rebelliousness that -mitigated the futility of the tragedy. - -The last child saw the last adult die, and saw this immobility as an -opportunity to break the most inviolable of rules. She went out of the -launch--into near-airlessness that killed her within minutes. - -But minutes were more than enough, with the much longer time afterwards -for examination of the dead brain. It was through the mind of this one -child, young enough to be still partially free of the rigid mental -framework that made adult Terrans so inaccessible to Arlemites, that -the basis was gained for most of the knowledge we now have. - -Sorrowingly, the Arlemites generated an organism to decompose the -Terrans and their artifacts, removing all traces of tragedy from the -planet's surface. Meanwhile, they studied what they had learned, -against future needs. - - * * * * * - -The technological ingenuity of these young sexuals will be apparent -when I tell you that only four decades after the departure of that -ill-fated first ship, they were experimenting with ultra-dimensional -travel. Even at the time of the landing at Aldebaran, ultra-di scouts -were already exploring the systems closest to Sol. Eventually--within -a decade after the child's death--one of these came to Aldebaran, and -sighted the still-orbiting Mother Ship. - -A second landing was clearly imminent. The Arlemites had still devised -no way to aid this species to live in safety on their planet, nor did -they have any means to communicate adequately with psi-negatives whose -primary perceptions were aural and visual. But they did have, from the -child's mind, a working knowledge of the strongest emotional symbols -the culture knew, and they had long since devised a warning sign they -could erect for visual perception. The statue of the Woman of Earth was -constructed in an incredibly brief time through the combined efforts of -the whole Arlemite consciousness. - -They had no way to know that the new ship, designed for exploration, -not colonizing, and equipped with ultra-di drive, which obviated the -long slow traveling, was crewed entirely by males. Even had they known, -they did not yet comprehend the extreme duality of the two-sexed -double-culture. So they built their warning to the shape of the -strongest fear-and-hate symbols of a female. - -(Shot of statue, held for some time, angle moving slowly. No narration. -Assuming that emotional-projection notion--and I think we must--the -timing here is such that I believe they first project what they seem to -think a human female would feel, looking at it. I tried women on staff -here. They focused more on phallic than female component, but were -just as positive in reactions as males. ???? Anyhow, like I said, no -narration. What follows, though out of parens, is my own reaction.) - - * * * * * - -It seems more a return than a venture. - -The Woman waits, as she has waited ... always?... to greet her sons, -welcome us ... home?... She sits in beauty, in peacefulness, perfect, -complete, clean and fresh-colored ... new?... no, _forever_ ... open, -welcoming, yet so impervious ... warm and ... untouchable?... rather, -_untouched_ ... almost but never, forgotten Goddess ... Allmother, -Woman of Earth ... enveloped, enveloping, in warmth and peace ... - - * * * * * - -One stands back a bit: this is the peace of loving insight, of -unquesting womanhood, of great age and undying youth ... the peace of -the past, of life that is passed, of that immortality that nothing -mortal can ever achieve except through the frozen impression of living -consciousness that we call _art_. - -The young men are deeply moved and they make jokes. "Allmother," one -hears them say, sarcastically, "Old White Goddess, whaddya know?" - -Then they look up and are quiet under the smiling stone eyes. Even the -ancient obscenely placed spaceship in her lap is not quite absurd, as -it will seem in museum models--or tragic, as is the original overhead. - -(Prof. Eel goes on to summarize the conclusions that seem obvious to -him. Something is awfully wrong; that's obvious to me. How did they -manage to build something so powerful out of total miscomprehension? -What are we up against, anyhow? And, to get back to the matter of -channels, what do you think this little story would do to Spaserve -brass egos? Do you want to hold it top secret a while?) - -End of Transcript - - * * * * * - -TO: Dr. Shlomo Mouna, Sr. Anthropologist, Ozma XII, Pluto - -FROM: N. R. Hennessy, Solar Council Dome, Eros - -DATE: 10/10/92 - -TRANSMISSION: VIA tight beam, scrambled. SENT: 0312 hrs. RCVD: 1027 -hrs. - -Dear Shlomo: - -Absolutely, let me see the full package before we release it elsewhere. -I've got a few more questions, like: Do they know we're receiving -it? How do we straighten them out? Or should we? Instinct says yes. -Tactics says it is advantageous to be underestimated. Think best you -come with package, and we'll braintrust it. Meantime, in reply to your -bafflement---- - -"L" class ships, you should have known, are for "Lysistrata." Five of -them launched during brief Matriarchy at beginning of World Government -on Terra, following Final War. 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