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+                           sales resistance
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+                            BY HENRY STILL
+
+             _When Consumption means prosperity, when the
+            Pulitzer Prize is awarded to advertising copy,
+            when the Salesman is the most respected citizen
+           in the land.... What chance has a non-consumer?_
+
+           [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
+              Worlds of If Science Fiction, August 1956.
+         Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
+         the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
+
+
+On his way home from the concert, Perry Mansfield whistled a pleasant
+melody from an old Stravinsky classic. But then, troubled by his
+conscience and that of his psychiatrist, he stopped to study the
+program again.
+
+What was that modern symphony? Oh yes, "The Flivver". The music was
+supposed to have its roots in antiquity when someone started converting
+the metal wealth of the earth on an assembly line. Those screeching
+noises were drill presses and lathes and automatic hammers. The syrupy
+melody was the saintly salesman who disbursed the wealth of gadget and
+machine like melted butter across the bread of the land.
+
+Perry tried to like it. But he didn't. And that disturbed him. It meant
+his psychotherapy wasn't working. Dr. Stone would run him through the
+mechanical analyzer again and scold over the results.
+
+His simple act of walking home instead of riding an anti-gravity
+putterseat labeled him as a misfit. But it seemed silly to rent a
+flying stool just to travel two blocks.
+
+The fact was, he liked to walk.
+
+Perry sighed, discouraged, as he waited for the fluorescent scanner to
+identify his insides and open his front door.
+
+It opened. The lights came on. Recorded music, somewhat tuned to his
+mood, poured from concealed amplifiers.
+
+And then he noticed the note clipped to the door.
+
+His hand trembled as he took it down. The beautiful pastel gray of the
+enclosing envelope was an anachronism itself, and therefore marked
+unmistakably its almost priestly origin.
+
+The platinum engraved card inside said simply:
+
+_A Master Salesman has chosen you for his next call._
+
+Perry placed the note carefully on a plastic table. He inhaled deeply
+and held it for a moment to steady his nerves.
+
+A _Master_ salesman. No one of that stature had ever called upon him
+before. It was an honor like--like a mayor or a bishop. It meant
+he had attained top level on the universal measuring stick--an
+A-number-1-plus-plus credit rating.
+
+The prospect should have saturated him with pleasure. But, like the
+sharp new music, it didn't.
+
+This card also meant he was expected to buy something. Something big
+and expensive. And he didn't want or need something big and expensive.
+
+He wished they'd leave him alone.
+
+Perry clapped his hand to his mouth as though someone might have heard
+the thought.
+
+What was wrong with him anyway? He wasn't a recluse. He _wanted_ to
+indulge and enjoy the polished luxury of his world. He _wanted_ to be
+conventional. He was young and handsome and tall and dark. He had a
+good job. He had a pleasant and comfortable legal arrangement with a
+girl in the next block.
+
+But truly, what he had was all he wanted.
+
+He glanced at the card on the table. He could always say _no_. It
+wouldn't be easy, but he could say _no_.
+
+Perry thumbed through the Pulitzer prize winning work for 2087 which
+had been delivered yesterday as part of his book club subscription.
+He had seen it already, of course, in a dozen magazines and a hundred
+copies of his facsimile newspaper. It was the advertising copy for
+Cor-T-Zan foundation garments. But he didn't need a corset and the
+spartan simplicity of the fragile, lovely words bored him.
+
+He switched on television. A phrenetic band was hammering out the new
+top jingle on the Hit Parade:
+
+    _Tootsie gum, tootsie gum
+    Ooh yum-yum, it's touched with rum;
+    Love that girl with eyes so hot,
+    TOOTSIE GUM hits the spot._
+
+Perry switched off the set.
+
+He was alone. He could be honest with himself. The whole damned
+business irritated him. If he was out of step with the times, to hell
+with the times.
+
+Mr. Master Salesman didn't even say _when_ he would call. You were
+expected to sit on the edge of your chair, waiting for the great man to
+appear.
+
+Finally Perry decided what he'd do. He'd simply not open the door when
+the MS came knocking.
+
+Upon that decision, he slept well.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Sometime later he dreamed of frying bacon over an open fire in the
+woods, although he hadn't been out to the park in three years.
+
+When he opened his eyes, the sun was up. He still smelled bacon frying.
+
+Perry crawled out of bed, fumbled into his robe and followed his nose
+to the kitchen-bar.
+
+There, in his favorite chair, sat a handsomely-dressed, distinguished
+man with florid complexion, iron gray hair and a fashionable paunch.
+
+Strips of bacon were frying on the bright, spotless steel of the
+cooking shield.
+
+"How did you get in here?" Perry asked crossly.
+
+"Serve-All does all," his visitor said cryptically and smiled the smile
+that's known around the world. Perry would have no opportunity to shut
+out the Master Salesman. He was in.
+
+"You are Mr. Mansfield?"
+
+"Yes sir," Perry said, uncertain of decorum.
+
+"My name is Marlboro," the MS said in melodius tones. "Master is the
+proper term used in addressing us. Please sit down."
+
+"Yes, Master," Perry said. He felt like a fool and sat down.
+
+"Breakfast will be served in a few moments," Marlboro said. "I hope you
+don't mind, I examined your excellent library before you came in." He
+pulled a volume off the shelf. "This is a beautiful old first edition.
+Wherever did you find it?"
+
+It was Perry's copy of "Basic Sales Techniques" with Burton footnotes
+on vacuum cleaner sales charts for the last half of the 20th century.
+
+"I've read it, of course," Marlboro continued, "but I've never owned a
+copy." He caressed the dogeared cardboard cover. "Isn't it fantastic?
+In that barbaric century the customers sometimes refused to buy from
+our predecessors in the Guild. It seems impossible that anyone could
+have been so crude as to turn away one of those sturdy pioneers at the
+door."
+
+Perry shifted uncomfortably. He had been prepared to turn away one of
+the Great Men at _his_ door.
+
+"Ah!" Marlboro exclaimed. "Your bacon is ready, young man."
+
+At a flick of the salesman's finger, the golden strips of meat lifted
+into the air and floated to an absorbent mat on the table. Perry
+stared. Not a bubble of fat had fallen to the floor in passage.
+
+"How did you do that?"
+
+"Serve-All does all," the MS said coyly.
+
+"Mine doesn't," Perry said.
+
+"Of course not!" Marlboro moved deftly into the opening. "You need a
+new one."
+
+So he had tumbled for the first trap. Perry blushed and ate a piece of
+bacon.
+
+The Master hefted an object to the table top. It was a hemisphere about
+18 inches in diameter, smooth and featureless except for a handle on
+the curved top. It was painted psychological green.
+
+"This is the _new_ Serve-All," Marlboro said glibly. "Notice its smooth
+unobtrusive shape. No working parts exposed, but inside is a mass of
+circuits and servos around a baby reactor ready to do everything for
+you."
+
+"The bacon," Perry persisted. "How?"
+
+He was aware that the first step in successful selling is to arouse
+curiosity. But he was confident he could refuse to buy, though it be
+contrary to convention and good taste.
+
+"Fingers of energy," the MS said. "Invisible, sensitive fingers of
+energy reach out of here--" He tapped the Serve-All dome. "--and
+they'll do anything that needs doing, at your mental command. Right
+now this one's tuned to me, but a minor adjustment will fit it to your
+personal needs. Here, let me show you something else."
+
+Perry felt a gentle, firm pressure on his left cheekbone. It moved down
+his cheeks, across his upper lip and up the other side. Then under his
+chin.
+
+Marlboro whipped out a pocket mirror.
+
+Perry had just been shaved.
+
+"See?" the Master beamed. "Wonderful isn't it?" Perry nodded. That was
+calculated to put him in a yes mood.
+
+While they talked the Serve-All cleared the breakfast clutter and
+cleaned the cooking shield without visible remains or waste. Marlboro
+pulled a contract pad out of his pocket.
+
+"I presume I can put you down for one of these."
+
+"I don't need it," Perry said. "My old one is good enough."
+
+"Ridiculous!" Marlboro said indignantly and then chuckled
+good-humoredly. "Oh, I see what you're doing. You're trying some of the
+old tricks from the 20th century. Well, I like a game of wits, too.
+Look what else this model will do."
+
+While Perry watched, the Serve-All repaired a broken knob on a plastic
+chest, cleaned the rug and etched a mural of a voluptuous nude on one
+blank wall.
+
+"If you'll excuse me," Perry murmured, "it's time for me to go to work."
+
+"Of course, of course," the Master laughed jovially.
+
+In rapid succession a comb dressed Perry's hair, his robe and pajamas
+were whisked off and his street clothes came floating out of the closet
+on more invisible fingers of energy.
+
+Before he knew it, he was ready for work.
+
+"I really must be going, too," Marlboro said, "if you'll just sign
+here."
+
+"How much is it?"
+
+The Master Salesman sighed.
+
+"You're really very difficult. It's $9,785, plus tax."
+
+"I can't afford it."
+
+"Now, Mr. Mansfield. A joke's a joke. If your credit rating wasn't
+the finest, I wouldn't be here. I know, and you know, your income is
+mortgaged for only 15 more years and your life expectancy is at least
+50."
+
+Perry moved uneasily toward the bathroom. An invisible finger of energy
+opened the door for him.
+
+"If you don't mind," he said angrily, "this is something I'm quite
+capable of doing for myself." He slammed the door.
+
+But the Serve-All flushed the toilet for him.
+
+When he emerged, Marlboro's patience also was gone.
+
+"Sign," he said firmly.
+
+"I don't want it."
+
+"Young man," the Master said thinly. "You don't realize what dangerous
+ground you're on. If you do not cease this rudeness at once, I'll
+report you to the council."
+
+"Report and be damned! I don't need your gadget and I'm not going to
+buy it. Now get out!"
+
+Marlboro was blue with rage. He backed uncertainly toward the door and
+stopped.
+
+"This borders on sacrilege," he whispered. "You'll hear from me again.
+Soon."
+
+Perry slammed that door, too, and walked jauntily to work.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+He heard from the Master Salesman again--exactly two hours later. The
+message tube delivered a summons ordering him into City Court. That
+afternoon.
+
+Perry went. He had never been in court before. He was frightened and
+regretful that he had been so abrupt with Marlboro. But he resented the
+invasion of his privacy and to bolster his courage, he built that anger
+into a fair rage by the time he reached the courtroom.
+
+Marlboro was there. A judge was there. And on each of two tables
+squatted a metal box with voice tubes. A bailiff guided him to his
+table and placed the voice tube in his hand.
+
+"You're late Mr. Mansfield," the judge snapped. "Justice must be swift
+and you're impeding it." He lifted a printed card and scanned it
+near-sightedly for a moment. "You're here charged with violating the
+public interest by failing to purchase an item which you are able to
+consume and which you can afford to buy."
+
+"There's no law against--" Perry began indignantly.
+
+"Don't tell me your troubles, young man," the judge interrupted.
+"That's what your lawyer's for." His gesture indicated the metal box.
+Perry held the voice tube dumbly. The bailiff leaned over his shoulder.
+
+"You tell your side of the story in there," he whispered.
+
+Marlboro was muttering rapidly and at great length into his "lawyer."
+Perry did likewise, relating all he could remember of the morning
+fiasco. When he finished, the machine whirred, whistled and harrumphed
+twice before spewing out several yards of perforated tape.
+
+The plaintiff's counsel did the same, except the tape was longer.
+
+"Now Mr. Bailiff," the judge said, "you may bring in the jury."
+
+Perry was no longer surprised when the jury was rolled in. It was a
+large gray analog computor mounted on wheels. The judge stepped down
+from the bench and fed in the two conflicting tapes.
+
+The jury digested the information noisily.
+
+"It's an old model," the judge apologized, but just then a white card
+popped out on a small metal tray. The bailiff delivered it to the judge.
+
+He studied the card. Perry's heart thumped painfully during the
+calculated period of suspense.
+
+"As you attempted to inform the court earlier, Mr. Mansfield," the
+judge said somberly, "there is no law in the land which forces you
+to buy any item from our distinguished colleagues of distribution."
+Perry's heart brightened and he slid back from the edge of the chair.
+
+"However," the judge peered down, "it has been held by many courts that
+when the public interest is to be served by the individual purchase
+of a piece of merchandise which that individual can consume and which
+that individual is able to buy without financial hardship, then that
+individual _must_ sacrifice his emotional reluctance to the good of
+society."
+
+The jurist paused thoughtfully.
+
+"I think, Mr. Mansfield, that you should relearn the basic tenets of
+our society and economy. First, Consumption is Prosperity and that
+derives from the ancient law of Supply and Demand. S & D means, in
+simple terms, that when there is a supply of something, a demand must
+be created to consume it. That is why we have Master Salesmen. That is
+why they are the staunchest and most highly-respected citizens in our
+land."
+
+He bowed to Marlboro who assumed a benevolent smile.
+
+"This court decrees," the judge said sternly, "that you are to purchase
+an item known as the 2087 Serve-All from Master Salesman Marlboro and
+customary steps will be taken to attach your future salary to satisfy
+the stipulated payment schedule. Court dismissed."
+
+Perry was too stunned to move. His petty rebellion had collapsed into a
+pot of embarrassment. He was vaguely aware of Marlboro shaking his hand
+with a moist, jovial palm.
+
+"No hard feelings, young man," the MS said. "It was really quite
+interesting. I haven't had a case like this in five years."
+
+The condescension stirred Perry's anger again.
+
+"I demand an appeal!"
+
+The judge was leaving the bench, but he turned back.
+
+"Appeal bond is $2000."
+
+"No appeal," Perry said glumly.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+He walked home. The 2087 Serve-All was there waiting for him, in the
+middle of his living room floor.
+
+Marlboro had tied a gay red ribbon around it to cheer him.
+
+He wasn't cheered. The thing must have been delivered even while he was
+in court. There had never been a doubt that he would lose the case.
+Rage began to crawl its acid path through his stomach again.
+
+The Serve-All was tuned to him now. It removed his hat and coat and put
+them in the closet. It loosened his tie, patted a sofa cushion to his
+shape and brought him a drink.
+
+Perry might just possibly have adjusted to the situation, but the
+Serve-All was over anxious.
+
+He liked to sip a drink. But when he lifted the glass to his lips, an
+invisible finger of energy pushed helpfully on the bottom.
+
+Perry strangled.
+
+When he recovered, his rage had crystallized in a definite course of
+action.
+
+He looked at the Serve-All and he looked at his hands. Not enough. He
+needed something much more. His memory of history recalled such items
+as an axe and a sledge hammer, but such no longer existed.
+
+But the plastic table had legs of substantial heft. A low growl rose in
+his throat as he grabbed the table and ripped it to pieces.
+
+The dismayed Serve-All scuttled across the room to repair the damage.
+
+Perry fended it off with his new club and then smashed downward, again
+and again, delighting in the screech of crushed metal and the tinkling
+death of transistors, vacuum tubes and servos.
+
+At the center was the tiny reactor box, but that was of solid lead
+and steel, that, fortunately, was virtually impervious for radiation
+safety. But he didn't care. It was also inert and needn't be destroyed.
+
+So Perry was free; as free as an aging husband who has just dispatched
+his jaded wife. He sang a little and danced around the shattered scraps
+of plastic and wire and metal.
+
+Then he heard the plaintive bleating beep of sound issuing from the
+central core of the Serve-All. He bent over it and read engraved
+lettering on the steel: "Central Registry No. C187-D69."
+
+Good God! Any idiot would know that every piece of equipment was
+centrally registered and carried a built-in signal to summon repair
+machinery.
+
+And destruction of mortgaged property was a criminal offense.
+
+So what now?
+
+Escape?
+
+Escape! He must be out of the house when the repair machine arrived.
+He must run and keep running, from the law and the Master Salesman and
+Serve-All, Inc.
+
+How much time did he have? Not more than a few minutes for the smooth
+central machinery to reach across the city to him; machinery which even
+now was on its way to rescue a damaged brother.
+
+Perry snatched his coat from the closet and ran to the door.
+
+Food. If he would hide from the methodical meat grinder of society, he
+must have food to live. He raced to the kitchen bar.
+
+There was food there, but he didn't know how to get at it. He had never
+before needed to do more than dial up portions for a meal, but he must
+have food in containers, food that would not spoil while he conserved
+his life on its dwindling supply.
+
+He ripped open a locked panel on the wall. There was food. But the
+large containers were locked in place. He clawed at the metal, but only
+tore his flesh and dripped blood on the immaculate counter top.
+
+The club he had used on the Serve-All! He recovered the plastic
+bludgeon and went to work.
+
+Five minutes later he had dislodged two of the large tins. One said
+_beans_; the other said _meat_.
+
+_Beans_ dripped a trail of juice across the floor as he ran to the door.
+
+He threw it open.
+
+A repair robot scuttled in and knocked him sprawling on the living room
+floor.
+
+Perry stared wildly at the mechanical beast. It hummed anxiously,
+retrieving bits of wreckage like a mother bird repairing a broken egg.
+
+Mansfield belly-crawled stealthily back toward the door. He might make
+it yet. The robot probably wasn't geared for cop duty.
+
+But the door was blocked.
+
+Perry looked up past the knees and the belted paunch to the face. It
+was Master Marlboro.
+
+Perry rose wearily to his feet and dropped the tins of food to the
+floor.
+
+"All right," he said, "I give up."
+
+"Really, Mr. Mansfield," Marlboro's lips curled with delicate disgust.
+"Isn't this a childish way to treat a beautiful machine?"
+
+"What will you do with me?"
+
+The MS didn't answer. He pulled a contract pad out of his pocket and
+started writing.
+
+"You mean you're going to sell me another one?"
+
+Marlboro shoved the pad in his hand.
+
+"I'm quite sure you'll sign this one," he said firmly.
+
+Perry read the sales contract:
+
+_For standard consideration, this entitles one Perry Mansfield to all
+required services and exclusive use of private quarters in Airy Hills
+Sanatarium._
+
+Perry signed.
+
+
+
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-                           sales resistance
-
-                            BY HENRY STILL
-
-             _When Consumption means prosperity, when the
-            Pulitzer Prize is awarded to advertising copy,
-            when the Salesman is the most respected citizen
-           in the land.... What chance has a non-consumer?_
-
-           [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
-              Worlds of If Science Fiction, August 1956.
-         Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
-         the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
-
-
-On his way home from the concert, Perry Mansfield whistled a pleasant
-melody from an old Stravinsky classic. But then, troubled by his
-conscience and that of his psychiatrist, he stopped to study the
-program again.
-
-What was that modern symphony? Oh yes, "The Flivver". The music was
-supposed to have its roots in antiquity when someone started converting
-the metal wealth of the earth on an assembly line. Those screeching
-noises were drill presses and lathes and automatic hammers. The syrupy
-melody was the saintly salesman who disbursed the wealth of gadget and
-machine like melted butter across the bread of the land.
-
-Perry tried to like it. But he didn't. And that disturbed him. It meant
-his psychotherapy wasn't working. Dr. Stone would run him through the
-mechanical analyzer again and scold over the results.
-
-His simple act of walking home instead of riding an anti-gravity
-putterseat labeled him as a misfit. But it seemed silly to rent a
-flying stool just to travel two blocks.
-
-The fact was, he liked to walk.
-
-Perry sighed, discouraged, as he waited for the fluorescent scanner to
-identify his insides and open his front door.
-
-It opened. The lights came on. Recorded music, somewhat tuned to his
-mood, poured from concealed amplifiers.
-
-And then he noticed the note clipped to the door.
-
-His hand trembled as he took it down. The beautiful pastel gray of the
-enclosing envelope was an anachronism itself, and therefore marked
-unmistakably its almost priestly origin.
-
-The platinum engraved card inside said simply:
-
-_A Master Salesman has chosen you for his next call._
-
-Perry placed the note carefully on a plastic table. He inhaled deeply
-and held it for a moment to steady his nerves.
-
-A _Master_ salesman. No one of that stature had ever called upon him
-before. It was an honor like--like a mayor or a bishop. It meant
-he had attained top level on the universal measuring stick--an
-A-number-1-plus-plus credit rating.
-
-The prospect should have saturated him with pleasure. But, like the
-sharp new music, it didn't.
-
-This card also meant he was expected to buy something. Something big
-and expensive. And he didn't want or need something big and expensive.
-
-He wished they'd leave him alone.
-
-Perry clapped his hand to his mouth as though someone might have heard
-the thought.
-
-What was wrong with him anyway? He wasn't a recluse. He _wanted_ to
-indulge and enjoy the polished luxury of his world. He _wanted_ to be
-conventional. He was young and handsome and tall and dark. He had a
-good job. He had a pleasant and comfortable legal arrangement with a
-girl in the next block.
-
-But truly, what he had was all he wanted.
-
-He glanced at the card on the table. He could always say _no_. It
-wouldn't be easy, but he could say _no_.
-
-Perry thumbed through the Pulitzer prize winning work for 2087 which
-had been delivered yesterday as part of his book club subscription.
-He had seen it already, of course, in a dozen magazines and a hundred
-copies of his facsimile newspaper. It was the advertising copy for
-Cor-T-Zan foundation garments. But he didn't need a corset and the
-spartan simplicity of the fragile, lovely words bored him.
-
-He switched on television. A phrenetic band was hammering out the new
-top jingle on the Hit Parade:
-
-    _Tootsie gum, tootsie gum
-    Ooh yum-yum, it's touched with rum;
-    Love that girl with eyes so hot,
-    TOOTSIE GUM hits the spot._
-
-Perry switched off the set.
-
-He was alone. He could be honest with himself. The whole damned
-business irritated him. If he was out of step with the times, to hell
-with the times.
-
-Mr. Master Salesman didn't even say _when_ he would call. You were
-expected to sit on the edge of your chair, waiting for the great man to
-appear.
-
-Finally Perry decided what he'd do. He'd simply not open the door when
-the MS came knocking.
-
-Upon that decision, he slept well.
-
-       *       *       *       *       *
-
-Sometime later he dreamed of frying bacon over an open fire in the
-woods, although he hadn't been out to the park in three years.
-
-When he opened his eyes, the sun was up. He still smelled bacon frying.
-
-Perry crawled out of bed, fumbled into his robe and followed his nose
-to the kitchen-bar.
-
-There, in his favorite chair, sat a handsomely-dressed, distinguished
-man with florid complexion, iron gray hair and a fashionable paunch.
-
-Strips of bacon were frying on the bright, spotless steel of the
-cooking shield.
-
-"How did you get in here?" Perry asked crossly.
-
-"Serve-All does all," his visitor said cryptically and smiled the smile
-that's known around the world. Perry would have no opportunity to shut
-out the Master Salesman. He was in.
-
-"You are Mr. Mansfield?"
-
-"Yes sir," Perry said, uncertain of decorum.
-
-"My name is Marlboro," the MS said in melodius tones. "Master is the
-proper term used in addressing us. Please sit down."
-
-"Yes, Master," Perry said. He felt like a fool and sat down.
-
-"Breakfast will be served in a few moments," Marlboro said. "I hope you
-don't mind, I examined your excellent library before you came in." He
-pulled a volume off the shelf. "This is a beautiful old first edition.
-Wherever did you find it?"
-
-It was Perry's copy of "Basic Sales Techniques" with Burton footnotes
-on vacuum cleaner sales charts for the last half of the 20th century.
-
-"I've read it, of course," Marlboro continued, "but I've never owned a
-copy." He caressed the dogeared cardboard cover. "Isn't it fantastic?
-In that barbaric century the customers sometimes refused to buy from
-our predecessors in the Guild. It seems impossible that anyone could
-have been so crude as to turn away one of those sturdy pioneers at the
-door."
-
-Perry shifted uncomfortably. He had been prepared to turn away one of
-the Great Men at _his_ door.
-
-"Ah!" Marlboro exclaimed. "Your bacon is ready, young man."
-
-At a flick of the salesman's finger, the golden strips of meat lifted
-into the air and floated to an absorbent mat on the table. Perry
-stared. Not a bubble of fat had fallen to the floor in passage.
-
-"How did you do that?"
-
-"Serve-All does all," the MS said coyly.
-
-"Mine doesn't," Perry said.
-
-"Of course not!" Marlboro moved deftly into the opening. "You need a
-new one."
-
-So he had tumbled for the first trap. Perry blushed and ate a piece of
-bacon.
-
-The Master hefted an object to the table top. It was a hemisphere about
-18 inches in diameter, smooth and featureless except for a handle on
-the curved top. It was painted psychological green.
-
-"This is the _new_ Serve-All," Marlboro said glibly. "Notice its smooth
-unobtrusive shape. No working parts exposed, but inside is a mass of
-circuits and servos around a baby reactor ready to do everything for
-you."
-
-"The bacon," Perry persisted. "How?"
-
-He was aware that the first step in successful selling is to arouse
-curiosity. But he was confident he could refuse to buy, though it be
-contrary to convention and good taste.
-
-"Fingers of energy," the MS said. "Invisible, sensitive fingers of
-energy reach out of here--" He tapped the Serve-All dome. "--and
-they'll do anything that needs doing, at your mental command. Right
-now this one's tuned to me, but a minor adjustment will fit it to your
-personal needs. Here, let me show you something else."
-
-Perry felt a gentle, firm pressure on his left cheekbone. It moved down
-his cheeks, across his upper lip and up the other side. Then under his
-chin.
-
-Marlboro whipped out a pocket mirror.
-
-Perry had just been shaved.
-
-"See?" the Master beamed. "Wonderful isn't it?" Perry nodded. That was
-calculated to put him in a yes mood.
-
-While they talked the Serve-All cleared the breakfast clutter and
-cleaned the cooking shield without visible remains or waste. Marlboro
-pulled a contract pad out of his pocket.
-
-"I presume I can put you down for one of these."
-
-"I don't need it," Perry said. "My old one is good enough."
-
-"Ridiculous!" Marlboro said indignantly and then chuckled
-good-humoredly. "Oh, I see what you're doing. You're trying some of the
-old tricks from the 20th century. Well, I like a game of wits, too.
-Look what else this model will do."
-
-While Perry watched, the Serve-All repaired a broken knob on a plastic
-chest, cleaned the rug and etched a mural of a voluptuous nude on one
-blank wall.
-
-"If you'll excuse me," Perry murmured, "it's time for me to go to work."
-
-"Of course, of course," the Master laughed jovially.
-
-In rapid succession a comb dressed Perry's hair, his robe and pajamas
-were whisked off and his street clothes came floating out of the closet
-on more invisible fingers of energy.
-
-Before he knew it, he was ready for work.
-
-"I really must be going, too," Marlboro said, "if you'll just sign
-here."
-
-"How much is it?"
-
-The Master Salesman sighed.
-
-"You're really very difficult. It's $9,785, plus tax."
-
-"I can't afford it."
-
-"Now, Mr. Mansfield. A joke's a joke. If your credit rating wasn't
-the finest, I wouldn't be here. I know, and you know, your income is
-mortgaged for only 15 more years and your life expectancy is at least
-50."
-
-Perry moved uneasily toward the bathroom. An invisible finger of energy
-opened the door for him.
-
-"If you don't mind," he said angrily, "this is something I'm quite
-capable of doing for myself." He slammed the door.
-
-But the Serve-All flushed the toilet for him.
-
-When he emerged, Marlboro's patience also was gone.
-
-"Sign," he said firmly.
-
-"I don't want it."
-
-"Young man," the Master said thinly. "You don't realize what dangerous
-ground you're on. If you do not cease this rudeness at once, I'll
-report you to the council."
-
-"Report and be damned! I don't need your gadget and I'm not going to
-buy it. Now get out!"
-
-Marlboro was blue with rage. He backed uncertainly toward the door and
-stopped.
-
-"This borders on sacrilege," he whispered. "You'll hear from me again.
-Soon."
-
-Perry slammed that door, too, and walked jauntily to work.
-
-       *       *       *       *       *
-
-He heard from the Master Salesman again--exactly two hours later. The
-message tube delivered a summons ordering him into City Court. That
-afternoon.
-
-Perry went. He had never been in court before. He was frightened and
-regretful that he had been so abrupt with Marlboro. But he resented the
-invasion of his privacy and to bolster his courage, he built that anger
-into a fair rage by the time he reached the courtroom.
-
-Marlboro was there. A judge was there. And on each of two tables
-squatted a metal box with voice tubes. A bailiff guided him to his
-table and placed the voice tube in his hand.
-
-"You're late Mr. Mansfield," the judge snapped. "Justice must be swift
-and you're impeding it." He lifted a printed card and scanned it
-near-sightedly for a moment. "You're here charged with violating the
-public interest by failing to purchase an item which you are able to
-consume and which you can afford to buy."
-
-"There's no law against--" Perry began indignantly.
-
-"Don't tell me your troubles, young man," the judge interrupted.
-"That's what your lawyer's for." His gesture indicated the metal box.
-Perry held the voice tube dumbly. The bailiff leaned over his shoulder.
-
-"You tell your side of the story in there," he whispered.
-
-Marlboro was muttering rapidly and at great length into his "lawyer."
-Perry did likewise, relating all he could remember of the morning
-fiasco. When he finished, the machine whirred, whistled and harrumphed
-twice before spewing out several yards of perforated tape.
-
-The plaintiff's counsel did the same, except the tape was longer.
-
-"Now Mr. Bailiff," the judge said, "you may bring in the jury."
-
-Perry was no longer surprised when the jury was rolled in. It was a
-large gray analog computor mounted on wheels. The judge stepped down
-from the bench and fed in the two conflicting tapes.
-
-The jury digested the information noisily.
-
-"It's an old model," the judge apologized, but just then a white card
-popped out on a small metal tray. The bailiff delivered it to the judge.
-
-He studied the card. Perry's heart thumped painfully during the
-calculated period of suspense.
-
-"As you attempted to inform the court earlier, Mr. Mansfield," the
-judge said somberly, "there is no law in the land which forces you
-to buy any item from our distinguished colleagues of distribution."
-Perry's heart brightened and he slid back from the edge of the chair.
-
-"However," the judge peered down, "it has been held by many courts that
-when the public interest is to be served by the individual purchase
-of a piece of merchandise which that individual can consume and which
-that individual is able to buy without financial hardship, then that
-individual _must_ sacrifice his emotional reluctance to the good of
-society."
-
-The jurist paused thoughtfully.
-
-"I think, Mr. Mansfield, that you should relearn the basic tenets of
-our society and economy. First, Consumption is Prosperity and that
-derives from the ancient law of Supply and Demand. S & D means, in
-simple terms, that when there is a supply of something, a demand must
-be created to consume it. That is why we have Master Salesmen. That is
-why they are the staunchest and most highly-respected citizens in our
-land."
-
-He bowed to Marlboro who assumed a benevolent smile.
-
-"This court decrees," the judge said sternly, "that you are to purchase
-an item known as the 2087 Serve-All from Master Salesman Marlboro and
-customary steps will be taken to attach your future salary to satisfy
-the stipulated payment schedule. Court dismissed."
-
-Perry was too stunned to move. His petty rebellion had collapsed into a
-pot of embarrassment. He was vaguely aware of Marlboro shaking his hand
-with a moist, jovial palm.
-
-"No hard feelings, young man," the MS said. "It was really quite
-interesting. I haven't had a case like this in five years."
-
-The condescension stirred Perry's anger again.
-
-"I demand an appeal!"
-
-The judge was leaving the bench, but he turned back.
-
-"Appeal bond is $2000."
-
-"No appeal," Perry said glumly.
-
-       *       *       *       *       *
-
-He walked home. The 2087 Serve-All was there waiting for him, in the
-middle of his living room floor.
-
-Marlboro had tied a gay red ribbon around it to cheer him.
-
-He wasn't cheered. The thing must have been delivered even while he was
-in court. There had never been a doubt that he would lose the case.
-Rage began to crawl its acid path through his stomach again.
-
-The Serve-All was tuned to him now. It removed his hat and coat and put
-them in the closet. It loosened his tie, patted a sofa cushion to his
-shape and brought him a drink.
-
-Perry might just possibly have adjusted to the situation, but the
-Serve-All was over anxious.
-
-He liked to sip a drink. But when he lifted the glass to his lips, an
-invisible finger of energy pushed helpfully on the bottom.
-
-Perry strangled.
-
-When he recovered, his rage had crystallized in a definite course of
-action.
-
-He looked at the Serve-All and he looked at his hands. Not enough. He
-needed something much more. His memory of history recalled such items
-as an axe and a sledge hammer, but such no longer existed.
-
-But the plastic table had legs of substantial heft. A low growl rose in
-his throat as he grabbed the table and ripped it to pieces.
-
-The dismayed Serve-All scuttled across the room to repair the damage.
-
-Perry fended it off with his new club and then smashed downward, again
-and again, delighting in the screech of crushed metal and the tinkling
-death of transistors, vacuum tubes and servos.
-
-At the center was the tiny reactor box, but that was of solid lead
-and steel, that, fortunately, was virtually impervious for radiation
-safety. But he didn't care. It was also inert and needn't be destroyed.
-
-So Perry was free; as free as an aging husband who has just dispatched
-his jaded wife. He sang a little and danced around the shattered scraps
-of plastic and wire and metal.
-
-Then he heard the plaintive bleating beep of sound issuing from the
-central core of the Serve-All. He bent over it and read engraved
-lettering on the steel: "Central Registry No. C187-D69."
-
-Good God! Any idiot would know that every piece of equipment was
-centrally registered and carried a built-in signal to summon repair
-machinery.
-
-And destruction of mortgaged property was a criminal offense.
-
-So what now?
-
-Escape?
-
-Escape! He must be out of the house when the repair machine arrived.
-He must run and keep running, from the law and the Master Salesman and
-Serve-All, Inc.
-
-How much time did he have? Not more than a few minutes for the smooth
-central machinery to reach across the city to him; machinery which even
-now was on its way to rescue a damaged brother.
-
-Perry snatched his coat from the closet and ran to the door.
-
-Food. If he would hide from the methodical meat grinder of society, he
-must have food to live. He raced to the kitchen bar.
-
-There was food there, but he didn't know how to get at it. He had never
-before needed to do more than dial up portions for a meal, but he must
-have food in containers, food that would not spoil while he conserved
-his life on its dwindling supply.
-
-He ripped open a locked panel on the wall. There was food. But the
-large containers were locked in place. He clawed at the metal, but only
-tore his flesh and dripped blood on the immaculate counter top.
-
-The club he had used on the Serve-All! He recovered the plastic
-bludgeon and went to work.
-
-Five minutes later he had dislodged two of the large tins. One said
-_beans_; the other said _meat_.
-
-_Beans_ dripped a trail of juice across the floor as he ran to the door.
-
-He threw it open.
-
-A repair robot scuttled in and knocked him sprawling on the living room
-floor.
-
-Perry stared wildly at the mechanical beast. It hummed anxiously,
-retrieving bits of wreckage like a mother bird repairing a broken egg.
-
-Mansfield belly-crawled stealthily back toward the door. He might make
-it yet. The robot probably wasn't geared for cop duty.
-
-But the door was blocked.
-
-Perry looked up past the knees and the belted paunch to the face. It
-was Master Marlboro.
-
-Perry rose wearily to his feet and dropped the tins of food to the
-floor.
-
-"All right," he said, "I give up."
-
-"Really, Mr. Mansfield," Marlboro's lips curled with delicate disgust.
-"Isn't this a childish way to treat a beautiful machine?"
-
-"What will you do with me?"
-
-The MS didn't answer. He pulled a contract pad out of his pocket and
-started writing.
-
-"You mean you're going to sell me another one?"
-
-Marlboro shoved the pad in his hand.
-
-"I'm quite sure you'll sign this one," he said firmly.
-
-Perry read the sales contract:
-
-_For standard consideration, this entitles one Perry Mansfield to all
-required services and exclusive use of private quarters in Airy Hills
-Sanatarium._
-
-Perry signed.
-
-
-
-
-
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