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diff --git a/58721-0.txt b/58721-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ac3a51d --- /dev/null +++ b/58721-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,399 @@ +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 58721 *** + + + + + + + + + + + + + + UNWELCOMED VISITOR + + BY WILLIAM MORRISON + + _Xhanph was the fully accredited ambassador from Gfun, + and Earth's first visitor from outer space. + History and the amenities called for a tremendous + reception. But earth people are funny people...._ + + [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from + Worlds of If Science Fiction, October 1954. + Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that + the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] + + +All the way over, all through the loneliness of the long trip, he had +consoled himself with the thought of the reception he would get. How +they would crowd around him, how they would gape and cheer! All the +most prominent and most important Earthlings would rush to see him, +to touch their own appendages to his tentacles, to receive his report +of interplanetary good will. His arrival would certainly be the most +celebrated occasion in all the history of Earth.... + +He was coming in for a landing, and it was no time for day-dreaming. +He brought the ship down slowly, in the middle of a large square, as +carefully as if he were settling down among his own people. He gave +them a chance to get out from under him before making contact with the +ground. When the ship finally rested firmly on the strange planet, he +gave a sigh of relief, and for a few long seconds sat there motionless. +And then he began to move toward the door. + +The increased gravity did not affect him as badly as he had thought it +would. For the dense atmosphere, with its high oxygen content, he had +of course been prepared. He injected another dose of respiratory enzyme +into his bloodstream just to make sure, and then swung open the door. +The inrush of air caused only a momentary dizziness. + +Then he climbed over the side and stared about in surprise. + +No one was paying any attention to him. + +Their indifference was so enormous that it struck him like a blow. +Individuals of both sexes--he could easily distinguish them by the +difference in their clothing--were going about their own business as +if he simply were not there. A small animal running about on all fours +had its forepart to the ground. It trotted from one place to another, +making a slight noise with an organ that he felt sure was used for the +intake of oxygen. When it came to him, it sniffed slightly, without +any especial interest, and then ran off to more important business. No +other creature paid him even that much attention. + +Can it be, he asked himself incredulously, that they don't see me? +Perhaps their organs of vision make use of different wave lengths. +Perhaps to them I and the ship are not pink and gray respectively, but +a perfect black which fails to register. I must speak to them, I must +make myself known. They may be startled, but I must take the chance. + +He rolled over to an individual who towered over him a full _spard_, +and said gravely, "Greetings! I, Xhanph, bring you greetings from the +inhabitants of the planet, Gfun. I come with a message of friendship--" + +There could be no doubt that the other heard him. And saw him too. He +looked straight at Xhanph, muttered something, probably about a pink +monster, which Xhanph could guess at but not really interpret, and +moved on impatiently. Xhanph stared after him with an incredulity that +grew by the moment. + +They didn't understand his language, that he realized. But surely +they didn't have to understand in order to be interested. The very +sight of his ship, a mere glimpse of _him_, the first visitor from +interplanetary space, should have been enough to bring them flocking +around. How could they possibly greet him with such disinterest, with +such faces which even to a stranger seemed cold and chilling? + +When you have traveled as far as he had traveled, you don't give up +easily. Another, a shorter individual, was coming toward him, and he +began again, "Greetings! I, Xhanph--" + +This time the individual didn't even stop, but muttered something which +must surely have been of the nature of an oath. And hurried on. + +Xhanph tried five more times before he gave up. If there had been the +slightest indication of interest, he would have kept on. But there +wasn't. The only feeling he could detect was one of impatience at being +annoyed. And he saw that there was nothing else to do but go back to +his ship. + +For a while he sat there, brooding. One possible solution struck +him, although it didn't seem at all probable. These people were not +representative of their kind. Perhaps this entire area he had taken for +a city was nothing more than a retreat for the mentally disabled, for +those who had found the strain of living too much and had sunk back +into a kind of stupor. Perhaps elsewhere the people were more normal. + +At the thought, he brightened for a moment. Yes, that must be it. +Convincing himself against his own better judgment, he lifted the ship +into the air again and set it down a few dozen _grolls_ away. + +But there was no difference. Here, too, the faces looked at him +blankly, and people hurried away impatiently when he tried to stop them. + +He knew now that it was useless to pick up the ship still another time +and set it down elsewhere. If there was some rational explanation +for such irrational behavior, it could be found here just as well as +anywhere else. And explanation there must be. But he would have to look +for it. It would not come to him if he simply sat there in the ship and +waited for it. + +He got out and locked the ship so that in case some one finally did +show curiosity, no harm would come to it. Then he began to roll around +the city. + + * * * * * + +Everywhere he met the same indifference as at first. Even the children +stared at him without curiosity, and went on with their games. He +stopped to watch--and to listen. + +They bounced balls, and as they bounced, they recited words. When +something interrupted the even tenor of the game and they had to begin +again, they went back to the start of the recitation. Surely, they were +counting. Listening carefully, he learned the fundamentals of their +system of numerals. At the same time, for the sake of permanence, he +made pictorial and auditory records. + +Every now and then the game would be interrupted by a quarrel. And a +childish quarrel, of course, was sure to be full of recriminations. +You did this, I did that. He learned the names of the objects with +which they played, he learned the words for first and second persons in +their different forms. He learned the word for the maternal parent, who +seemed to stand in the closest relation to the young ones. + +By evening he had acquired a fairly good child's grasp of the language. +He rolled back in the direction of the ship. When he came to the place +where it should be, he had a sudden feeling of panic. The ship was gone. + +They must have dragged it away. Their whole pretense of indifference +must have been a trick, he thought excitedly. They had waited until +they could tamper with it without his interference, in order to learn +its secrets. What had they done with it? Perhaps they had harmed it, +possibly they had ruined the drive. How could he ever get off this +accursed planet, how would he ever get back to Gfun? + +He rolled hastily over to the nearest man and tried to put his newfound +vocabulary to use. "Where--where--" He realized suddenly that he didn't +know the word for ship. "Where galenfain?" + +The man looked at him as if he were crazy, and walked on. + +Xhanph did some swearing on his own account. He began to roll +madly around the square, becoming more desperate from moment to +moment. Finally, just when he thought he would explode from rage +and frustration, he found the ship again. It had been dragged to +a neighboring street and left on a vacant lot, surrounded by rusty +cans, broken bottles, and various other forms of garbage and rubbish +indigenous to this section of the planet. + +Relief mingled with a feeling of outrage. Xhanph swore again. The +indignity of it was enough to start an interplanetary war. If they ever +heard of it back on Gfun, they would want to blast this stupid and +insulting planet out of existence. + +He hastened into the ship, and found to his joy that there had been +no damage. There was nothing to prevent him from taking off again and +getting back to Gfun. But the mystery of his reception still intrigued +him. He could not leave without solving it. + +He rolled out of the ship again and stood there watching it. Evidently +they had regarded this miracle of engineering as nothing more than so +much rubbish. They would probably leave it alone now. He could let it +remain here, and in the meantime carry on his investigating as before. + +Things would go more rapidly now that he understood some of the +elements of human speech. All he had to do was keep his hearing +appendages open and interpret the key words as he heard them. It +shouldn't take him long. One of the reasons he had been selected to +make the trip was that he had a gift for languages, and a day or two +more should suffice to establish communications. + +He left the ship again, and began to roll around the city. He listened +to traffic policemen directing the flow of helicopters, he stood +by unobtrusively while boy talked with girl--these conversations +turned out to be very limited in scope, as well as uninstructive in +syntax--and he even managed to get into a place of amusement where +three dimensional images created in him a sense of nostalgia. From his +slight knowledge of the language, he could perceive that the dialogue +was so stale that he himself could have supplied it from stories +written long ago on his native planet. After a lapse of many hours, the +majority of the people disappeared from the streets, and he decided it +was time to return to his ship and suspend animation. + +In the morning he set out again. By the end of that day he felt he +could understand the spoken language well enough. What next? + +To learn the language in written form might take too long, and besides, +to solve his mystery he would have to waste time in digging up the +recorded forms that contained the necessary information. No, he would +have to find some one to talk to, some one who would have the necessary +information at his tentacle-tips, or as they called the appendages +here, finger-tips. + +He began to approach various people again, undiscouraged by their +cold and impolite replies. Finally he found the informant he had been +seeking, an old, white-haired individual who was walking slowly, with +the aid of a cane, along one of the wider and quieter streets. + +The man looked at him with calm lack of interest as he approached. +Xhanph came to a stop, and said, "Greetings! I, Xhanph, bring you +greetings from the inhabitants of the planet, Gfun. I come with a +message of friendship." + +"Very glad to make your acquaintance, sir," said the old man politely, +but still without genuine interest. + +At last some one who had answered! Xhanph started his portable +recording machine going. + +"I wish for information. Perhaps you can give it to me." + +"Ah, my young fellow, I have seen a great deal and know a great deal. +But it isn't very often that you young ones want to find out what we +old folks know." + +"Perhaps I have not made myself clear. I am an inhabitant of the +planet, Gfun." + +"Yes, indeed. Do you intend to stay here long?" + +"I have come with a message of friendship. But I have found no one to +receive it." + +"Mmm. That's unfortunate," the old man said. "People are very impatient +nowadays. Time is money, they say. Can't spare the money to stop +and talk. Couldn't spare it myself, not so long ago. I'm retired +now, though. Used to run a stereo store, up around Mudlark Street. +Biggest store in the city. Everybody used to buy from me. Jefferson J. +Gardner's my name. You may have heard of me on--where did you say you +come from?" + +"Gfun. However, I wish to make clear--" + +"Never sold any stereos to any one on Gfun. Probably don't get good +reception up there. Sold 'em to everybody else, though. I'm well known +here, Mr.--" + +"Xhanph. But before you go further--" + +"Got into the stereo game when they first came out. Went like hotcakes +in those days. Although I don't suppose you know what a hotcake is. +Quality didn't count. Only thing that counted was size of screen and +strength of the three-dimensional effect. Mr. Gloopher--he was Mayor +then--Robert F. Gloopher--had a daughter who went in for acting...." + +Not for the first time, Xhanph cursed this damnable planet. The only +man he had found willing to talk was senile and his conversation +rambled wildly like a feather in a strong and particularly erratic +whirlwind. Still, he told himself with a touch of philosophy, I have +wasted so much time, I can afford to waste a little more. Sooner or +later this individual will tell me what I want to know. + +Half an hour later, however, when Jefferson J. Gardner began to repeat +himself, Xhanph realized that he couldn't just wait for the old man to +talk himself out. Different tactics were needed. + +He interrupted rudely. "Why don't people pay any attention to me?" + +"Eh? What's that you say?" + +"I come from the planet, Gfun. I thought that as an interplanetary +visitor I would be received with tremendous enthusiasm. Instead I find +myself disregarded." + +"I recollect that back in the old days--" + +"Never mind that. Why don't people pay any attention to me?" + +"Why should they?" + +"That is no answer!" + +"But it is, sir," said the old gentleman with dignity. "They don't find +you out of the ordinary. Why pay attention to you?" + +"You mean that you are accustomed to visitors from space?" + +"No, sir, I mean nothing of the kind. What I do mean is that we are by +now thoroughly accustomed to the idea of you. I remember--" + +"Never mind what you remember!" + +"When I was a child, stories about visitors from Mars or Venus were +already trite and stereotyped. What could a visitor do? What might a +visitor look like? All the possible answers had already been given, +and we were familiar with every one of them. We imagined visitors with +tentacles and without, with a thousand legs and no legs, with five +heads and seven feet, and eighteen stomachs. We imagined visitors who +were plants, or electrical impulses, or viruses, or energy-creatures. +They had the power to read minds, to move objects telekinetically and +to travel through impossible dimensions. Their space ships were of all +kinds, and they could race along with many times the speed of light +or crawl with the speed of molasses. I do not know, sir, in which +category you fall--whether you are animal, vegetable, mineral, or +electrical--but I know that there is nothing new about you." + +"But you are familiar merely with the ideas. I am a _real_ visitor!" + +"Young man, I am a hundred and ten years old, and the idea of you was +already ancient when I was eight. I remember reading about you in a +comic book. You are not the first visitor who has pretended to be real. +There were hundreds before you. I have seen press agent stunts by the +dozen, and advertising pictures by the hundreds about Mars, about +Venus, about the Moon, about visitors from interstellar space. Your +pretended colleagues have walked the streets of innumerable cities, +until now we are weary of the entire tribe of you. And you yourself, +sir, if you will pardon the expression, you are an anticlimax." + +"Your race must be insane," protested Xhanph. "For all you know I may +come with great gifts which I wish to confer upon you." + +"We have been fooled before. And in view of the fact, as I have +reminded you, that time is money, we do not wish to bankrupt ourselves +by investigating." + +"But suppose I'm here to harm you!" + +"If your race is capable of it, we can hardly stop you, so it is no use +trying. If incapable, you are wasting your efforts." + +"This is insanity, genuine racial insanity!" + +"You repeat yourself. The fact is, we have become blasé," said the old +man. "Thanks to the efforts of our science fiction writers, we have +experienced in imagination all there is to experience in interplanetary +contact, and the genuine article can be only a disappointment. I am +reminded of an incident that occurred when Gerald Crombie, who was City +Councilman at the time, ordered a twenty-five inch stereo set...." + + * * * * * + +Xhanph rolled away. He had his answer now, and he couldn't stand +listening any longer to the old man's babbling. He rolled aimlessly, up +one street and down another. And he thought of how they would receive +his answer when he went back to Gfun. + +Was it him or the planet that they would consider mad? Almost +certainly, they wouldn't believe him. He could imagine the exchange +of wondering glances, the first delicate hints that the long trip had +deranged him, the not so delicate hints later on when he persisted in +sticking to his story. He remembered the high hopes with which he had +departed, the messages with which he had been entrusted by the Chief +of Planetary Affairs, the Head of the Scientific Bureau, the Director +of Economic Affairs, and countless others. And he could imagine the +reception he would find when he reported that he had been unable to +deliver a single message. + +How long he rolled in this aimless fashion he did not know. After a +time he seemed to come to his senses. It was no use trying to run away +from reality, as he was doing. He had to go back to the ship and +return to Gfun. Let them believe him or not, his report would tell the +truth. And the pictorial and auditory records would confirm his story. + +What a planet, he thought again. Of all its hundreds of millions, +its billions of inhabitants, not one had the curiosity, the ordinary +intellectual decency, to be interested in him. Not one had the +imagination, the awareness-- + +"Pardon me," said a shrill voice, "Excuse me for reading thoughts, but +I could not help overhearing--I am a visitor here myself." + +He swung around. The figure before him was strange, but an aura of +friendliness came from it and he knew there was nothing to fear. +Nothing to fear--and much to be thankful for. + +With a heartfelt double sigh, while disinterested passersby spared +them not even a glance, pink tentacles and green streamers clasped +in a gesture of friendship that spanned the millions of miles of +interplanetary space. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Unwelcomed Visitor, by William Morrison + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 58721 *** diff --git a/58721-8.txt b/58721-8.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 95787be..0000000 --- a/58721-8.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,783 +0,0 @@ -The Project Gutenberg EBook of Unwelcomed Visitor, by William Morrison - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and -most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. 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But earth people are funny people...._ - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Worlds of If Science Fiction, October 1954. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -All the way over, all through the loneliness of the long trip, he had -consoled himself with the thought of the reception he would get. How -they would crowd around him, how they would gape and cheer! All the -most prominent and most important Earthlings would rush to see him, -to touch their own appendages to his tentacles, to receive his report -of interplanetary good will. His arrival would certainly be the most -celebrated occasion in all the history of Earth.... - -He was coming in for a landing, and it was no time for day-dreaming. -He brought the ship down slowly, in the middle of a large square, as -carefully as if he were settling down among his own people. He gave -them a chance to get out from under him before making contact with the -ground. When the ship finally rested firmly on the strange planet, he -gave a sigh of relief, and for a few long seconds sat there motionless. -And then he began to move toward the door. - -The increased gravity did not affect him as badly as he had thought it -would. For the dense atmosphere, with its high oxygen content, he had -of course been prepared. He injected another dose of respiratory enzyme -into his bloodstream just to make sure, and then swung open the door. -The inrush of air caused only a momentary dizziness. - -Then he climbed over the side and stared about in surprise. - -No one was paying any attention to him. - -Their indifference was so enormous that it struck him like a blow. -Individuals of both sexes--he could easily distinguish them by the -difference in their clothing--were going about their own business as -if he simply were not there. A small animal running about on all fours -had its forepart to the ground. It trotted from one place to another, -making a slight noise with an organ that he felt sure was used for the -intake of oxygen. When it came to him, it sniffed slightly, without -any especial interest, and then ran off to more important business. No -other creature paid him even that much attention. - -Can it be, he asked himself incredulously, that they don't see me? -Perhaps their organs of vision make use of different wave lengths. -Perhaps to them I and the ship are not pink and gray respectively, but -a perfect black which fails to register. I must speak to them, I must -make myself known. They may be startled, but I must take the chance. - -He rolled over to an individual who towered over him a full _spard_, -and said gravely, "Greetings! I, Xhanph, bring you greetings from the -inhabitants of the planet, Gfun. I come with a message of friendship--" - -There could be no doubt that the other heard him. And saw him too. He -looked straight at Xhanph, muttered something, probably about a pink -monster, which Xhanph could guess at but not really interpret, and -moved on impatiently. Xhanph stared after him with an incredulity that -grew by the moment. - -They didn't understand his language, that he realized. But surely -they didn't have to understand in order to be interested. The very -sight of his ship, a mere glimpse of _him_, the first visitor from -interplanetary space, should have been enough to bring them flocking -around. How could they possibly greet him with such disinterest, with -such faces which even to a stranger seemed cold and chilling? - -When you have traveled as far as he had traveled, you don't give up -easily. Another, a shorter individual, was coming toward him, and he -began again, "Greetings! I, Xhanph--" - -This time the individual didn't even stop, but muttered something which -must surely have been of the nature of an oath. And hurried on. - -Xhanph tried five more times before he gave up. If there had been the -slightest indication of interest, he would have kept on. But there -wasn't. The only feeling he could detect was one of impatience at being -annoyed. And he saw that there was nothing else to do but go back to -his ship. - -For a while he sat there, brooding. One possible solution struck -him, although it didn't seem at all probable. These people were not -representative of their kind. Perhaps this entire area he had taken for -a city was nothing more than a retreat for the mentally disabled, for -those who had found the strain of living too much and had sunk back -into a kind of stupor. Perhaps elsewhere the people were more normal. - -At the thought, he brightened for a moment. Yes, that must be it. -Convincing himself against his own better judgment, he lifted the ship -into the air again and set it down a few dozen _grolls_ away. - -But there was no difference. Here, too, the faces looked at him -blankly, and people hurried away impatiently when he tried to stop them. - -He knew now that it was useless to pick up the ship still another time -and set it down elsewhere. If there was some rational explanation -for such irrational behavior, it could be found here just as well as -anywhere else. And explanation there must be. But he would have to look -for it. It would not come to him if he simply sat there in the ship and -waited for it. - -He got out and locked the ship so that in case some one finally did -show curiosity, no harm would come to it. Then he began to roll around -the city. - - * * * * * - -Everywhere he met the same indifference as at first. Even the children -stared at him without curiosity, and went on with their games. He -stopped to watch--and to listen. - -They bounced balls, and as they bounced, they recited words. When -something interrupted the even tenor of the game and they had to begin -again, they went back to the start of the recitation. Surely, they were -counting. Listening carefully, he learned the fundamentals of their -system of numerals. At the same time, for the sake of permanence, he -made pictorial and auditory records. - -Every now and then the game would be interrupted by a quarrel. And a -childish quarrel, of course, was sure to be full of recriminations. -You did this, I did that. He learned the names of the objects with -which they played, he learned the words for first and second persons in -their different forms. He learned the word for the maternal parent, who -seemed to stand in the closest relation to the young ones. - -By evening he had acquired a fairly good child's grasp of the language. -He rolled back in the direction of the ship. When he came to the place -where it should be, he had a sudden feeling of panic. The ship was gone. - -They must have dragged it away. Their whole pretense of indifference -must have been a trick, he thought excitedly. They had waited until -they could tamper with it without his interference, in order to learn -its secrets. What had they done with it? Perhaps they had harmed it, -possibly they had ruined the drive. How could he ever get off this -accursed planet, how would he ever get back to Gfun? - -He rolled hastily over to the nearest man and tried to put his newfound -vocabulary to use. "Where--where--" He realized suddenly that he didn't -know the word for ship. "Where galenfain?" - -The man looked at him as if he were crazy, and walked on. - -Xhanph did some swearing on his own account. He began to roll -madly around the square, becoming more desperate from moment to -moment. Finally, just when he thought he would explode from rage -and frustration, he found the ship again. It had been dragged to -a neighboring street and left on a vacant lot, surrounded by rusty -cans, broken bottles, and various other forms of garbage and rubbish -indigenous to this section of the planet. - -Relief mingled with a feeling of outrage. Xhanph swore again. The -indignity of it was enough to start an interplanetary war. If they ever -heard of it back on Gfun, they would want to blast this stupid and -insulting planet out of existence. - -He hastened into the ship, and found to his joy that there had been -no damage. There was nothing to prevent him from taking off again and -getting back to Gfun. But the mystery of his reception still intrigued -him. He could not leave without solving it. - -He rolled out of the ship again and stood there watching it. Evidently -they had regarded this miracle of engineering as nothing more than so -much rubbish. They would probably leave it alone now. He could let it -remain here, and in the meantime carry on his investigating as before. - -Things would go more rapidly now that he understood some of the -elements of human speech. All he had to do was keep his hearing -appendages open and interpret the key words as he heard them. It -shouldn't take him long. One of the reasons he had been selected to -make the trip was that he had a gift for languages, and a day or two -more should suffice to establish communications. - -He left the ship again, and began to roll around the city. He listened -to traffic policemen directing the flow of helicopters, he stood -by unobtrusively while boy talked with girl--these conversations -turned out to be very limited in scope, as well as uninstructive in -syntax--and he even managed to get into a place of amusement where -three dimensional images created in him a sense of nostalgia. From his -slight knowledge of the language, he could perceive that the dialogue -was so stale that he himself could have supplied it from stories -written long ago on his native planet. After a lapse of many hours, the -majority of the people disappeared from the streets, and he decided it -was time to return to his ship and suspend animation. - -In the morning he set out again. By the end of that day he felt he -could understand the spoken language well enough. What next? - -To learn the language in written form might take too long, and besides, -to solve his mystery he would have to waste time in digging up the -recorded forms that contained the necessary information. No, he would -have to find some one to talk to, some one who would have the necessary -information at his tentacle-tips, or as they called the appendages -here, finger-tips. - -He began to approach various people again, undiscouraged by their -cold and impolite replies. Finally he found the informant he had been -seeking, an old, white-haired individual who was walking slowly, with -the aid of a cane, along one of the wider and quieter streets. - -The man looked at him with calm lack of interest as he approached. -Xhanph came to a stop, and said, "Greetings! I, Xhanph, bring you -greetings from the inhabitants of the planet, Gfun. I come with a -message of friendship." - -"Very glad to make your acquaintance, sir," said the old man politely, -but still without genuine interest. - -At last some one who had answered! Xhanph started his portable -recording machine going. - -"I wish for information. Perhaps you can give it to me." - -"Ah, my young fellow, I have seen a great deal and know a great deal. -But it isn't very often that you young ones want to find out what we -old folks know." - -"Perhaps I have not made myself clear. I am an inhabitant of the -planet, Gfun." - -"Yes, indeed. Do you intend to stay here long?" - -"I have come with a message of friendship. But I have found no one to -receive it." - -"Mmm. That's unfortunate," the old man said. "People are very impatient -nowadays. Time is money, they say. Can't spare the money to stop -and talk. Couldn't spare it myself, not so long ago. I'm retired -now, though. Used to run a stereo store, up around Mudlark Street. -Biggest store in the city. Everybody used to buy from me. Jefferson J. -Gardner's my name. You may have heard of me on--where did you say you -come from?" - -"Gfun. However, I wish to make clear--" - -"Never sold any stereos to any one on Gfun. Probably don't get good -reception up there. Sold 'em to everybody else, though. I'm well known -here, Mr.--" - -"Xhanph. But before you go further--" - -"Got into the stereo game when they first came out. Went like hotcakes -in those days. Although I don't suppose you know what a hotcake is. -Quality didn't count. Only thing that counted was size of screen and -strength of the three-dimensional effect. Mr. Gloopher--he was Mayor -then--Robert F. Gloopher--had a daughter who went in for acting...." - -Not for the first time, Xhanph cursed this damnable planet. The only -man he had found willing to talk was senile and his conversation -rambled wildly like a feather in a strong and particularly erratic -whirlwind. Still, he told himself with a touch of philosophy, I have -wasted so much time, I can afford to waste a little more. Sooner or -later this individual will tell me what I want to know. - -Half an hour later, however, when Jefferson J. Gardner began to repeat -himself, Xhanph realized that he couldn't just wait for the old man to -talk himself out. Different tactics were needed. - -He interrupted rudely. "Why don't people pay any attention to me?" - -"Eh? What's that you say?" - -"I come from the planet, Gfun. I thought that as an interplanetary -visitor I would be received with tremendous enthusiasm. Instead I find -myself disregarded." - -"I recollect that back in the old days--" - -"Never mind that. Why don't people pay any attention to me?" - -"Why should they?" - -"That is no answer!" - -"But it is, sir," said the old gentleman with dignity. "They don't find -you out of the ordinary. Why pay attention to you?" - -"You mean that you are accustomed to visitors from space?" - -"No, sir, I mean nothing of the kind. What I do mean is that we are by -now thoroughly accustomed to the idea of you. I remember--" - -"Never mind what you remember!" - -"When I was a child, stories about visitors from Mars or Venus were -already trite and stereotyped. What could a visitor do? What might a -visitor look like? All the possible answers had already been given, -and we were familiar with every one of them. We imagined visitors with -tentacles and without, with a thousand legs and no legs, with five -heads and seven feet, and eighteen stomachs. We imagined visitors who -were plants, or electrical impulses, or viruses, or energy-creatures. -They had the power to read minds, to move objects telekinetically and -to travel through impossible dimensions. Their space ships were of all -kinds, and they could race along with many times the speed of light -or crawl with the speed of molasses. I do not know, sir, in which -category you fall--whether you are animal, vegetable, mineral, or -electrical--but I know that there is nothing new about you." - -"But you are familiar merely with the ideas. I am a _real_ visitor!" - -"Young man, I am a hundred and ten years old, and the idea of you was -already ancient when I was eight. I remember reading about you in a -comic book. You are not the first visitor who has pretended to be real. -There were hundreds before you. I have seen press agent stunts by the -dozen, and advertising pictures by the hundreds about Mars, about -Venus, about the Moon, about visitors from interstellar space. Your -pretended colleagues have walked the streets of innumerable cities, -until now we are weary of the entire tribe of you. And you yourself, -sir, if you will pardon the expression, you are an anticlimax." - -"Your race must be insane," protested Xhanph. "For all you know I may -come with great gifts which I wish to confer upon you." - -"We have been fooled before. And in view of the fact, as I have -reminded you, that time is money, we do not wish to bankrupt ourselves -by investigating." - -"But suppose I'm here to harm you!" - -"If your race is capable of it, we can hardly stop you, so it is no use -trying. If incapable, you are wasting your efforts." - -"This is insanity, genuine racial insanity!" - -"You repeat yourself. The fact is, we have become blasé," said the old -man. "Thanks to the efforts of our science fiction writers, we have -experienced in imagination all there is to experience in interplanetary -contact, and the genuine article can be only a disappointment. I am -reminded of an incident that occurred when Gerald Crombie, who was City -Councilman at the time, ordered a twenty-five inch stereo set...." - - * * * * * - -Xhanph rolled away. He had his answer now, and he couldn't stand -listening any longer to the old man's babbling. He rolled aimlessly, up -one street and down another. And he thought of how they would receive -his answer when he went back to Gfun. - -Was it him or the planet that they would consider mad? Almost -certainly, they wouldn't believe him. He could imagine the exchange -of wondering glances, the first delicate hints that the long trip had -deranged him, the not so delicate hints later on when he persisted in -sticking to his story. He remembered the high hopes with which he had -departed, the messages with which he had been entrusted by the Chief -of Planetary Affairs, the Head of the Scientific Bureau, the Director -of Economic Affairs, and countless others. And he could imagine the -reception he would find when he reported that he had been unable to -deliver a single message. - -How long he rolled in this aimless fashion he did not know. After a -time he seemed to come to his senses. It was no use trying to run away -from reality, as he was doing. He had to go back to the ship and -return to Gfun. Let them believe him or not, his report would tell the -truth. And the pictorial and auditory records would confirm his story. - -What a planet, he thought again. Of all its hundreds of millions, -its billions of inhabitants, not one had the curiosity, the ordinary -intellectual decency, to be interested in him. Not one had the -imagination, the awareness-- - -"Pardon me," said a shrill voice, "Excuse me for reading thoughts, but -I could not help overhearing--I am a visitor here myself." - -He swung around. The figure before him was strange, but an aura of -friendliness came from it and he knew there was nothing to fear. -Nothing to fear--and much to be thankful for. - -With a heartfelt double sigh, while disinterested passersby spared -them not even a glance, pink tentacles and green streamers clasped -in a gesture of friendship that spanned the millions of miles of -interplanetary space. - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Unwelcomed Visitor, by William Morrison - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK UNWELCOMED VISITOR *** - -***** This file should be named 58721-8.txt or 58721-8.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/8/7/2/58721/ - -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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