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diff --git a/59150-0.txt b/59150-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fca1020 --- /dev/null +++ b/59150-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,279 @@ +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 59150 *** + + + + + + + + + + + + + LOST ART + + BY G. K. HAWK + + _They lived by and for push + buttons and machines, and + knew nothing else. But Endicott + remembered about the + old, old days--when a man + could save a life without a + push-button...._ + + [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from + Worlds of If Science Fiction, March 1955. + Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that + the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] + + +Stiff fingers of icy, wind-driven snow beat a tattoo on the hull of the +cargo ship, filtered through the jagged tears in the metal skin, sifted +down over the useless control board with its dead gauges and bank upon +bank of pushbuttons. Amidship, a wind-thrashed branch screechingly +scraped the reverberating hull, and the sound, like the rasp of sliding +hatch covers, echoed through the ship. + +Dazedly, Allison watched the sifting snow settle on the buttons, each +one acquiring a grotesque, lop-sided, conical hat which grew as he +stared. He reached forward an already stiffening finger and brushed one +of the hats away, and almost idly watched another one form in its place. + +"Come on, Allison, come on. Snap out of it." Endicott came out of the +passageway into the control room, returned from his inspection of the +machinery. "You hurt in the landing?" + +Allison didn't answer. He shivered and pushed another inquisitive +finger at the control board; the finger selected a certain button and +pushed it steadily. There was no click of a hidden relay, no whir of +little motors springing to life. + +"You can punch that button or any of the others from now until--It +won't do any good. We're dead." The plume of Endicott's frozen breath +drifted over Allison's shoulder, merged with the sifting snow. + +"Dead?" Allison echoed in a sleepwalker's voice. "Dead," he repeated +and jabbed the button again and again. + +"In a manner of speaking," Endicott's white-sandy brows drew together +in a frown. "We're off the powercast--our receiver, I guess." + +"No power." Allison was following better, was waking up. "That +means--Can't you fix it, Chief?" + +"Nope. I tried, but something in its guts is burned out. No power." +Endicott beat his old blue-veined hands together. + +Allison's frost-numbed fingers picked at the straps on his reclining +geeseat, and he stepped to the light metal deck. He shivered and +punched the button on the control board again. He was seized by a spasm +of uncontrollable shaking. "No power means--no heat!" Panic crept into +his voice. + +Endicott said nothing but looked at the tier upon tier of buttons, +functionless now. + +Allison looked at the board, too, his narrow shoulders hunched. +"They've never failed before," he muttered through chattering teeth. + +"What?" Endicott seemed bemused. + +"The buttons. Punch 'em, and you always get what you want--except now!" + +"Now, now," Endicott said soothingly. "Panic isn't going to help us +any. All we have to do is sit tight--and wait. They'll send a relief +ship out--" + +"When?" + +"In the morning. Morning, sure. They had us on the 'viewer, don't +forget. They'll know exactly where to look." + +"They won't be able to locate us in this white stuff." + +"I tell you they know precisely where we are. And anyway the scanviewer +will pick us up." + +"I don't think they'll ever find us." Allison slumped down on his +transverse geeseat, stared wide-eyed at the drift forming slowly inside +the torn metal of the windward side of the control room. "This white +stuff scares me." He shivered, then got up hastily, his boots slipping +slightly on the snow-slick decking, and punched the button again. "It's +got to work!" he cried and beat on the board with his fist. + +"Stop that!" Endicott said sharply. + +There was a crack of a slap in the control room, then silence. + +In a moment Endicott said in his soothing voice, "Sorry, Allison. +Everything'll be all right. Don't you worry." + +"If you say so, Chief." Allison stood in the center of the control +room, his arms slack by his sides. + +"We'll be all right," Endicott said. "We have food capsules--" + +"Sure, Chief." + +"We'll be all right, except--" Endicott peered through the rents in the +hull into the storm outside. "All we have to do is sit tight," he added +hastily. + +"We'll freeze tonight without heat." Allison's voice was still +breathless with panic. + +"Yeah. Yeah, I've been thinking about that. There's some thing +'way down deep in my mind--something I can't quite get--" Endicott +still looked out at the storm-thrashed trees, a puzzled expression +wrinkling his face. "Something from my childhood--I was born a long +time before you, you know, before they set up state conditioning homes +for children. Long before they set up this 'everything-from-buttons' +business. Lived with my own people, I did, and I seem to remember--seem +to remember--" The puzzled expression became a frown of concentration. +"Or maybe it was something I read a long time ago," he mused. + +"Did what?" Allison perked up. + +"Read. You wouldn't know what that was. Everything comes from buttons +now, entertainment, food, light, heat--everything.... No, it was from +my childhood, I'm sure. I remember my people used to take me out in +the country--" Endicott mused on while a cloak of snow grew on the +shoulders of his jacket, and the light began to fade. + +"Out in the country? What for? Nobody goes out there." Allison's eyes +gleamed slightly in the growing dusk. + +"--for picnics. And--" Endicott's eyes brightened, and one hand +clenched. + +"For what?" Allison's head thrust forward. + +"What?" Endicott snapped, irritated at having his train of thought +broken. + +"What did your people take you in the country for?" + +"A picnic.... Yes, yes, that's it! I remember now!" Endicott's words +poured out. + +"You know it is forbidden to think of the old days." + +"Shut up! Let me think. You want heat, don't you?" + +"It's forbidden to think of the old days," Allison repeated stubbornly. +"You'll get heat when I report this--in a different way." + +"Shut up! Look, you want to keep from freezing tonight?" Endicott +glared. "All right. Come with me and do as I say." Without a backward +glance Endicott crossed the slippery deck and entered the passageway. +At the midship cargo natch he stopped. + +"How are you going to open it without power?" Allison's breath-plume +shot over Endicott's shoulder. "It's locked and unlocked by a button on +the control board. Remember Chief?" + +"Stop gloating, Allison. This is for your benefit as well as mine. +There's an escape hatch in the control room." + +"That's controlled by power, too." + +"Yes, but in these older models the hatch also has a manual control, as +I remember." Endicott moved off toward the control room. + +Allison hesitated, then followed, and joined Endicott as he began to +search the control board. Endicott found the emergency lever for the +escape hatch and tugged on it, turning his head to watch the hatch +in the side of the hull, back of his seat. The hatch, big enough for +one man to pass through at a time, popped, crackling with frost, and +stirred slightly. + +"Now, Allison, my boy, let's put our shoulders to it." Endicott was in +high spirits again. + +As soon as the hatch swung open, Endicott put his head and shoulders +through the opening, squinting his eyes against the icy snow which +swirled past him. He grabbed a handhold on the outside of the hull and +pulled his legs through, and dropped into the snow alongside the ship. + +Allison's head and shoulders appeared in the opening, and in a moment +he was beside Endicott. "Now what?" Allison yelled above the wind. + +Endicott looked toward the clearing in which they had landed, then +turned to face the trees around the disabled ship. He waded through the +snow to the nearest one and reflectively took hold of a dry branch over +his head, tugged it several times as though judging its resiliency, +before snapping it off. + +"Now, Allison, you see what I did? Well, you do the same, only gather +an armload of branches. When you have them, bring them to me at the +ship. And keep on gathering them until I tell you to stop." + +Allison stood still in the deep snow, peering suspiciously at Endicott +through the snow-swirl. "Is this something from the old--?" + +"Never mind that now, Allison," Endicott said patiently. "Let's not +worry about all that twaddle. You want to be warm, don't you? So, just +do as I say." + +Allison's eyebrows shot up and lowered instantly, and his face set in +stubborn planes. "If this is from the old days I'm not sure I want any +part of it." He looked furtively over his shoulders at the gloomy woods. + +"There are no Conditioning Committees here, Allison," Endicott said +testily. "Get on with it." + +Allison took a few reluctant steps toward the nearest tree. Endicott +started back to the ship with his branch, looking back over his +shoulder. + +"No, no, Allison. See those green needles? It won't do at all. +Dry branches, Allison, _dry_ branches." The whipping wind carried +Endicott's words over the few yards. + +"I can't see how these--branches?--are going to keep us warm. It seems +like a lot of useless trouble getting them," Allison said sulkily, +suspicion and fear unabated. + +Endicott didn't answer. Instead, he went to the side of the ship away +from the wind and began tramping the snow down into a flat, hard +floor. He broke his branch into short lengths over his knee, then, in +a nearly forgotten gesture, slapped at his uniform until he remembered +that he had no pockets. For a moment he stood still, his eyes roving +over the side of the ship until it came to one of the jagged tears. +With a little self-congratulatory chuckle, he began scraping one of +the lengths of wood over the torn metal, catching the splinters and +shavings in the palm of one hand. + +Allison dropped his armload of branches by the ship, waged an inner +battle between fear of the unknown and curiosity in which curiosity +won, and stood watching Endicott arrange the branches in a crib around +the neatly piled shavings. Endicott, on one knee by the crib, worked +steadily, laying the pieces of wood with care and a returning sense +of sureness, with only brief pauses to flex his freezing fingers. +Finally, with a smile of satisfaction on his face, Endicott got to his +feet, and the nearly forgotten gesture at the pocketless uniform was +repeated. + +Slowly, Endicott's lined face altered. He looked hastily at the +watchful Allison and hastily looked away; he looked at the completed +crib, and his tongue licked his lips; he looked along the side of the +damaged ship, and his eyes narrowed thoughtfully; finally, he looked +into the swirl of the icy snow, and he shivered. His hands ceased their +pawing, fell slowly, to hang slack by his sides. He was not smiling as +he turned away. + +"What were you looking for?" Allison asked curiously. + +"I just remembered something else," said Endicott, his voice was very +soft in the stillness, "we used to have something called a match to +start those picnic fires." + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Lost Art, by G. K. Hawk + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 59150 *** diff --git a/59150-h/59150-h.htm b/59150-h/59150-h.htm index c81b468..18a1e7f 100644 --- a/59150-h/59150-h.htm +++ b/59150-h/59150-h.htm @@ -75,41 +75,7 @@ div.titlepage p { <body> -<pre> - -The Project Gutenberg EBook of Lost Art, by G. K. 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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: Lost Art - -Author: G. K. Hawk - -Release Date: March 29, 2019 [EBook #59150] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LOST ART *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - LOST ART - - BY G. K. HAWK - - _They lived by and for push - buttons and machines, and - knew nothing else. But Endicott - remembered about the - old, old days--when a man - could save a life without a - push-button...._ - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Worlds of If Science Fiction, March 1955. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -Stiff fingers of icy, wind-driven snow beat a tattoo on the hull of the -cargo ship, filtered through the jagged tears in the metal skin, sifted -down over the useless control board with its dead gauges and bank upon -bank of pushbuttons. Amidship, a wind-thrashed branch screechingly -scraped the reverberating hull, and the sound, like the rasp of sliding -hatch covers, echoed through the ship. - -Dazedly, Allison watched the sifting snow settle on the buttons, each -one acquiring a grotesque, lop-sided, conical hat which grew as he -stared. He reached forward an already stiffening finger and brushed one -of the hats away, and almost idly watched another one form in its place. - -"Come on, Allison, come on. Snap out of it." Endicott came out of the -passageway into the control room, returned from his inspection of the -machinery. "You hurt in the landing?" - -Allison didn't answer. He shivered and pushed another inquisitive -finger at the control board; the finger selected a certain button and -pushed it steadily. There was no click of a hidden relay, no whir of -little motors springing to life. - -"You can punch that button or any of the others from now until--It -won't do any good. We're dead." The plume of Endicott's frozen breath -drifted over Allison's shoulder, merged with the sifting snow. - -"Dead?" Allison echoed in a sleepwalker's voice. "Dead," he repeated -and jabbed the button again and again. - -"In a manner of speaking," Endicott's white-sandy brows drew together -in a frown. "We're off the powercast--our receiver, I guess." - -"No power." Allison was following better, was waking up. "That -means--Can't you fix it, Chief?" - -"Nope. I tried, but something in its guts is burned out. No power." -Endicott beat his old blue-veined hands together. - -Allison's frost-numbed fingers picked at the straps on his reclining -geeseat, and he stepped to the light metal deck. He shivered and -punched the button on the control board again. He was seized by a spasm -of uncontrollable shaking. "No power means--no heat!" Panic crept into -his voice. - -Endicott said nothing but looked at the tier upon tier of buttons, -functionless now. - -Allison looked at the board, too, his narrow shoulders hunched. -"They've never failed before," he muttered through chattering teeth. - -"What?" Endicott seemed bemused. - -"The buttons. Punch 'em, and you always get what you want--except now!" - -"Now, now," Endicott said soothingly. "Panic isn't going to help us -any. All we have to do is sit tight--and wait. They'll send a relief -ship out--" - -"When?" - -"In the morning. Morning, sure. They had us on the 'viewer, don't -forget. They'll know exactly where to look." - -"They won't be able to locate us in this white stuff." - -"I tell you they know precisely where we are. And anyway the scanviewer -will pick us up." - -"I don't think they'll ever find us." Allison slumped down on his -transverse geeseat, stared wide-eyed at the drift forming slowly inside -the torn metal of the windward side of the control room. "This white -stuff scares me." He shivered, then got up hastily, his boots slipping -slightly on the snow-slick decking, and punched the button again. "It's -got to work!" he cried and beat on the board with his fist. - -"Stop that!" Endicott said sharply. - -There was a crack of a slap in the control room, then silence. - -In a moment Endicott said in his soothing voice, "Sorry, Allison. -Everything'll be all right. Don't you worry." - -"If you say so, Chief." Allison stood in the center of the control -room, his arms slack by his sides. - -"We'll be all right," Endicott said. "We have food capsules--" - -"Sure, Chief." - -"We'll be all right, except--" Endicott peered through the rents in the -hull into the storm outside. "All we have to do is sit tight," he added -hastily. - -"We'll freeze tonight without heat." Allison's voice was still -breathless with panic. - -"Yeah. Yeah, I've been thinking about that. There's some thing -'way down deep in my mind--something I can't quite get--" Endicott -still looked out at the storm-thrashed trees, a puzzled expression -wrinkling his face. "Something from my childhood--I was born a long -time before you, you know, before they set up state conditioning homes -for children. Long before they set up this 'everything-from-buttons' -business. Lived with my own people, I did, and I seem to remember--seem -to remember--" The puzzled expression became a frown of concentration. -"Or maybe it was something I read a long time ago," he mused. - -"Did what?" Allison perked up. - -"Read. You wouldn't know what that was. Everything comes from buttons -now, entertainment, food, light, heat--everything.... No, it was from -my childhood, I'm sure. I remember my people used to take me out in -the country--" Endicott mused on while a cloak of snow grew on the -shoulders of his jacket, and the light began to fade. - -"Out in the country? What for? Nobody goes out there." Allison's eyes -gleamed slightly in the growing dusk. - -"--for picnics. And--" Endicott's eyes brightened, and one hand -clenched. - -"For what?" Allison's head thrust forward. - -"What?" Endicott snapped, irritated at having his train of thought -broken. - -"What did your people take you in the country for?" - -"A picnic.... Yes, yes, that's it! I remember now!" Endicott's words -poured out. - -"You know it is forbidden to think of the old days." - -"Shut up! Let me think. You want heat, don't you?" - -"It's forbidden to think of the old days," Allison repeated stubbornly. -"You'll get heat when I report this--in a different way." - -"Shut up! Look, you want to keep from freezing tonight?" Endicott -glared. "All right. Come with me and do as I say." Without a backward -glance Endicott crossed the slippery deck and entered the passageway. -At the midship cargo natch he stopped. - -"How are you going to open it without power?" Allison's breath-plume -shot over Endicott's shoulder. "It's locked and unlocked by a button on -the control board. Remember Chief?" - -"Stop gloating, Allison. This is for your benefit as well as mine. -There's an escape hatch in the control room." - -"That's controlled by power, too." - -"Yes, but in these older models the hatch also has a manual control, as -I remember." Endicott moved off toward the control room. - -Allison hesitated, then followed, and joined Endicott as he began to -search the control board. Endicott found the emergency lever for the -escape hatch and tugged on it, turning his head to watch the hatch -in the side of the hull, back of his seat. The hatch, big enough for -one man to pass through at a time, popped, crackling with frost, and -stirred slightly. - -"Now, Allison, my boy, let's put our shoulders to it." Endicott was in -high spirits again. - -As soon as the hatch swung open, Endicott put his head and shoulders -through the opening, squinting his eyes against the icy snow which -swirled past him. He grabbed a handhold on the outside of the hull and -pulled his legs through, and dropped into the snow alongside the ship. - -Allison's head and shoulders appeared in the opening, and in a moment -he was beside Endicott. "Now what?" Allison yelled above the wind. - -Endicott looked toward the clearing in which they had landed, then -turned to face the trees around the disabled ship. He waded through the -snow to the nearest one and reflectively took hold of a dry branch over -his head, tugged it several times as though judging its resiliency, -before snapping it off. - -"Now, Allison, you see what I did? Well, you do the same, only gather -an armload of branches. When you have them, bring them to me at the -ship. And keep on gathering them until I tell you to stop." - -Allison stood still in the deep snow, peering suspiciously at Endicott -through the snow-swirl. "Is this something from the old--?" - -"Never mind that now, Allison," Endicott said patiently. "Let's not -worry about all that twaddle. You want to be warm, don't you? So, just -do as I say." - -Allison's eyebrows shot up and lowered instantly, and his face set in -stubborn planes. "If this is from the old days I'm not sure I want any -part of it." He looked furtively over his shoulders at the gloomy woods. - -"There are no Conditioning Committees here, Allison," Endicott said -testily. "Get on with it." - -Allison took a few reluctant steps toward the nearest tree. Endicott -started back to the ship with his branch, looking back over his -shoulder. - -"No, no, Allison. See those green needles? It won't do at all. -Dry branches, Allison, _dry_ branches." The whipping wind carried -Endicott's words over the few yards. - -"I can't see how these--branches?--are going to keep us warm. It seems -like a lot of useless trouble getting them," Allison said sulkily, -suspicion and fear unabated. - -Endicott didn't answer. Instead, he went to the side of the ship away -from the wind and began tramping the snow down into a flat, hard -floor. He broke his branch into short lengths over his knee, then, in -a nearly forgotten gesture, slapped at his uniform until he remembered -that he had no pockets. For a moment he stood still, his eyes roving -over the side of the ship until it came to one of the jagged tears. -With a little self-congratulatory chuckle, he began scraping one of -the lengths of wood over the torn metal, catching the splinters and -shavings in the palm of one hand. - -Allison dropped his armload of branches by the ship, waged an inner -battle between fear of the unknown and curiosity in which curiosity -won, and stood watching Endicott arrange the branches in a crib around -the neatly piled shavings. Endicott, on one knee by the crib, worked -steadily, laying the pieces of wood with care and a returning sense -of sureness, with only brief pauses to flex his freezing fingers. -Finally, with a smile of satisfaction on his face, Endicott got to his -feet, and the nearly forgotten gesture at the pocketless uniform was -repeated. - -Slowly, Endicott's lined face altered. He looked hastily at the -watchful Allison and hastily looked away; he looked at the completed -crib, and his tongue licked his lips; he looked along the side of the -damaged ship, and his eyes narrowed thoughtfully; finally, he looked -into the swirl of the icy snow, and he shivered. His hands ceased their -pawing, fell slowly, to hang slack by his sides. He was not smiling as -he turned away. - -"What were you looking for?" Allison asked curiously. - -"I just remembered something else," said Endicott, his voice was very -soft in the stillness, "we used to have something called a match to -start those picnic fires." - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Lost Art, by G. K. 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