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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/license - - -Title: The Connoisseur - -Author: Frank Banta - -Release Date: December 22, 2019 [EBook #60991] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CONNOISSEUR *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/cover.jpg" width="347" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="titlepage"> - -<h1>The Connoisseur</h1> - -<h2>By FRANK BANTA</h2> - -<p class="ph1">He said I was the biggest knuckle-head<br /> -he ever saw, but I didn't trust him.<br /> -Sooner or later I knew he'd insult me!</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Worlds of If Science Fiction, May 1961.<br /> -Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that<br /> -the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>It is infinitely more satisfactory to purchase wives when they are -young. They are vastly more respectful.</p> - -<p>Twelve is a good purchasing age. Lisa was twelve when I bargained for -her, and she is an illustrious argument for the system.</p> - -<p>I recall her excellent father and I facing each other across his -gleaming synthol marble table that day. On the table were small metal -shells of sweet liquor. And beside the shells were the sedulously -gathered treasures I was formally offering for Lisa: A control knob, -and a folded painting of one of our Navigator's other-ship visions.</p> - -<p>Lisa's father eagerly examined the mirror-bright, chrome surface -of the control knob—which I had handed to him with a pretense of -casualness—trying to still the trembling of his fingers.</p> - -<p>"The last knob on the control board!" he said in an emotion-cracked -voice. "How could you have broken it off? We've all been tugging at it -for years."</p> - -<p>I answered—I hope with no more than legitimate pride—"I managed to -get a thin hacksaw blade between the knob and the control board. Then I -sawed off the shaft."</p> - -<p>He nodded approvingly. "With knuckle-headed men like you aboard ship we -will certainly all go to <i>Hell</i>."</p> - -<p>I bowed, but I did not let his flattery relax my caution. After all, we -were bargaining for his prettiest daughter. What flattering words bear -weight in the midst of a sale? He, of course, referred to the ringing -sincerity of our Navigator's dying words: "If you knuckle-heads all -want to go to <i>Hell</i>, just keep dismantling the ship!"</p> - -<p>Swinging adroitly to my other item of barter, I mused aloud, "Our -Navigator! What a strange, frantic creature he was. Full of the wild, -lovely visions which effervesced from his books of fantasy. Imploring -us not only to read the books but to believe them—and, failing that, -drawing immortal paintings of the fantasies for us to see."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Therewith I opened the folded painting and handed it reverently to him. -It showed a large globular ship with people living on the <i>outside</i> of -it. The title of the painting was <i>Planet</i>.</p> - -<p>Privately I had always thought the thing was wholly unnatural—a -curious off-beat of the master's imagination. I was quite willing, -despite its great beauty and its origin, to exchange it for something -which to me was far more attractive at the moment. Namely a woman.</p> - -<p>Lisa lay curled up on the narrow, in-wall couch, with her head propped -up by a slim arm. She chewed her synthel-gum lazily and surveyed me -with mild interest. She was a tender-featured girl, with shimmering -black, shoulder-length hair. It was possible to forecast that she would -some day be a lovely and gentle-hearted woman.</p> - -<p>Her father, notwithstanding his habitually rigid integrity, saw my -lively interest in her and tried to increase my generous bid for her by -an artifice of delay.</p> - -<p>Holding the painting of the master at arm's length, he grumbled -critically, "A vision of <i>Hell</i> would have been more to my liking. -Unhappily our Navigator did not paint one of his radiant visions of -that ship. Now, why would he prefer <i>Planet</i> to <i>Hell</i>—particularly -when he described <i>Hell</i> as warm and enclosed like our own ship?"</p> - -<p>I did not answer his frivolous complaint, knowing full well it was only -bartering talk.</p> - -<p>He handled the immortal painting with crudely feigned indifference. He -could not quite bring himself to let go of it. He was determined to own -it, I knew, and he sensed also my resolve to offer no more for Lisa. -Yet slyly he determined on an evil course.</p> - -<p>For, incredibly, he turned to tranquil Lisa and asked: "What is your -value, lovely child? Does he offer enough?"</p> - -<p>And slowly lifting her candid eyes to him she shook her head NO!</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>"Shall I bargain with <i>her</i> then?" I asked my friend caustically. I -will own I was vexed.</p> - -<p>Shrewdly he nodded. "Whatever she accepts will be our bargain." Then, -laughing at my undignified discomfiture, "It is manifest she is more -aware of her value than I."</p> - -<p>"Will you be serious? It is not kindly to banter with a woman-child in -such an important matter as her future."</p> - -<p>But greed now fully possessed him. "I do not joke. Whatever she demands -shall be her price." He sipped his sweet wine, hiding his eyes from my -displeasure.</p> - -<p>Concealing my fury, I turned to Lisa, who now sat up straight on the -narrow couch with her long, slender legs folded under her. In the pace -of grievous mortification I was not bitter toward her. It was not her -fault. For her I extended the tolerance due the innocent.</p> - -<p>"What is your cost, child?" I asked. "This control knob and other-ship -vision of our Navigator are sufficient to purchase any girl-woman. What -will you have?"</p> - -<p>Lisa chewed her gum slowly while she formed her serene thought. Then, -shaking her oval head, she let fall in a dreamy, singsong voice, -"Neither of these! Neither of these!"</p> - -<p>Her father leaned forward anxiously. I told her, "There is a limit to -your value. I will not give all of my treasures for you, lovely though -you are. Choose what thing you will have, and if I can procure it, your -father shall have it."</p> - -<p>"I'll know it when I see it!" she said, smiling impudently.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>There was nothing for me to do but go to my apartments and look for -other treasures to show her. My thoughts were exceedingly bitter as I -gathered the coveted articles one by one in my arms.</p> - -<p>"Here." I displayed it to her when I had arrived back at her father's -abode. "It is the steering wheel from the lifeboat. Feel its smooth -texture, see its ebony luster. It is the only lifeboat steering wheel -aboard ship. I had a terrible struggle with it until I broke off the -shaft."</p> - -<p>She seemed interested. I passed hurriedly on to another object. "Here -is the handle of the atomic-pile damping rod. It was threaded inside. -However, I have managed to grind the interior smooth."</p> - -<p>She seemed definitely interested, but I did not linger. I unrolled the -last treasure I had brought with me. At the sight of it her father -burst into merry chuckles.</p> - -<p>"Yes," I said, smiling with a hint of sadness. "It is the inscrutable -message we found protruding from the mouth of a machine some years ago. -The machine has the name Teletype engraved upon it. We cannot imagine -who put the message inside the machine—if indeed it is a message. -But listen to the poetry of its words! I shall read it to you as -though it were properly set out on paper instead of being cramped into -continuous, senseless lines:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> -<p>"Colony ship, colony ship,<br /> -Turn around before it is too late.<br /> -You have left the Galaxy.<br /> -We are the last planetary system<br /> -You will encounter,<br /> -For ten thousand years."</p></div> - -<p>Then, seeing her puzzlement, I said hastily, "But, of course, it is -too adult for you, Lisa. Its mystery is for the scholar, its abstract -beauty for the man of mature years. Come, let us turn back to these -other treasures...."</p> - -<p>It was not easy for her to choose, seemingly, with so much wealth about -her. The control knob, the painting, the lifeboat steering wheel, the -atomic-pile damping-rod handle, the inscrutable poetry—all claimed her -interest. But in the end she chose as I wanted her to, and the bargain -was struck.</p> - -<p>Lisa went to live in the compartment of my concubines that day, and at -maturity became a concubine of exotic beauty. She bore her dark-haired -children well.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>By the excellence of her father, he and I continued to be good friends. -At least once a year I invite him to view the master's painting of -<i>Planet</i>. We spend many contented hours together. Often through a -porthole we watch the rapid movement of distant ships which our -Navigator called <i>stars</i>, revolving in tiny circles at the side of the -ship, making a complete circle in about two minutes. What prompts the -behavior of these ships? It is all very curious, and I account myself -fortunate that I have in my friend an intense capacity for speculation. -Like myself, he is a scholar of honor, capable of long sustained -discourse on lofty subjects which round out and deepen the mind. I -forgive him his greed.</p> - -<p>As I had intended, Lisa took the teletype nonsense message to be -her value to her father. May I reiterate, it is infinitely more -satisfactory to purchase wives when they are very young ladies? They -are vastly more respectful. 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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/license - - -Title: The Connoisseur - -Author: Frank Banta - -Release Date: December 22, 2019 [EBook #60991] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CONNOISSEUR *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - -The Connoisseur - -By FRANK BANTA - -He said I was the biggest knuckle-head -he ever saw, but I didn't trust him. -Sooner or later I knew he'd insult me! - -[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from -Worlds of If Science Fiction, May 1961. -Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that -the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -It is infinitely more satisfactory to purchase wives when they are -young. They are vastly more respectful. - -Twelve is a good purchasing age. Lisa was twelve when I bargained for -her, and she is an illustrious argument for the system. - -I recall her excellent father and I facing each other across his -gleaming synthol marble table that day. On the table were small metal -shells of sweet liquor. And beside the shells were the sedulously -gathered treasures I was formally offering for Lisa: A control knob, -and a folded painting of one of our Navigator's other-ship visions. - -Lisa's father eagerly examined the mirror-bright, chrome surface -of the control knob--which I had handed to him with a pretense of -casualness--trying to still the trembling of his fingers. - -"The last knob on the control board!" he said in an emotion-cracked -voice. "How could you have broken it off? We've all been tugging at it -for years." - -I answered--I hope with no more than legitimate pride--"I managed to -get a thin hacksaw blade between the knob and the control board. Then I -sawed off the shaft." - -He nodded approvingly. "With knuckle-headed men like you aboard ship we -will certainly all go to _Hell_." - -I bowed, but I did not let his flattery relax my caution. After all, we -were bargaining for his prettiest daughter. What flattering words bear -weight in the midst of a sale? He, of course, referred to the ringing -sincerity of our Navigator's dying words: "If you knuckle-heads all -want to go to _Hell_, just keep dismantling the ship!" - -Swinging adroitly to my other item of barter, I mused aloud, "Our -Navigator! What a strange, frantic creature he was. Full of the wild, -lovely visions which effervesced from his books of fantasy. Imploring -us not only to read the books but to believe them--and, failing that, -drawing immortal paintings of the fantasies for us to see." - - * * * * * - -Therewith I opened the folded painting and handed it reverently to him. -It showed a large globular ship with people living on the _outside_ of -it. The title of the painting was _Planet_. - -Privately I had always thought the thing was wholly unnatural--a -curious off-beat of the master's imagination. I was quite willing, -despite its great beauty and its origin, to exchange it for something -which to me was far more attractive at the moment. Namely a woman. - -Lisa lay curled up on the narrow, in-wall couch, with her head propped -up by a slim arm. She chewed her synthel-gum lazily and surveyed me -with mild interest. She was a tender-featured girl, with shimmering -black, shoulder-length hair. It was possible to forecast that she would -some day be a lovely and gentle-hearted woman. - -Her father, notwithstanding his habitually rigid integrity, saw my -lively interest in her and tried to increase my generous bid for her by -an artifice of delay. - -Holding the painting of the master at arm's length, he grumbled -critically, "A vision of _Hell_ would have been more to my liking. -Unhappily our Navigator did not paint one of his radiant visions of -that ship. Now, why would he prefer _Planet_ to _Hell_--particularly -when he described _Hell_ as warm and enclosed like our own ship?" - -I did not answer his frivolous complaint, knowing full well it was only -bartering talk. - -He handled the immortal painting with crudely feigned indifference. He -could not quite bring himself to let go of it. He was determined to own -it, I knew, and he sensed also my resolve to offer no more for Lisa. -Yet slyly he determined on an evil course. - -For, incredibly, he turned to tranquil Lisa and asked: "What is your -value, lovely child? Does he offer enough?" - -And slowly lifting her candid eyes to him she shook her head NO! - - * * * * * - -"Shall I bargain with _her_ then?" I asked my friend caustically. I -will own I was vexed. - -Shrewdly he nodded. "Whatever she accepts will be our bargain." Then, -laughing at my undignified discomfiture, "It is manifest she is more -aware of her value than I." - -"Will you be serious? It is not kindly to banter with a woman-child in -such an important matter as her future." - -But greed now fully possessed him. "I do not joke. Whatever she demands -shall be her price." He sipped his sweet wine, hiding his eyes from my -displeasure. - -Concealing my fury, I turned to Lisa, who now sat up straight on the -narrow couch with her long, slender legs folded under her. In the pace -of grievous mortification I was not bitter toward her. It was not her -fault. For her I extended the tolerance due the innocent. - -"What is your cost, child?" I asked. "This control knob and other-ship -vision of our Navigator are sufficient to purchase any girl-woman. What -will you have?" - -Lisa chewed her gum slowly while she formed her serene thought. Then, -shaking her oval head, she let fall in a dreamy, singsong voice, -"Neither of these! Neither of these!" - -Her father leaned forward anxiously. I told her, "There is a limit to -your value. I will not give all of my treasures for you, lovely though -you are. Choose what thing you will have, and if I can procure it, your -father shall have it." - -"I'll know it when I see it!" she said, smiling impudently. - - * * * * * - -There was nothing for me to do but go to my apartments and look for -other treasures to show her. My thoughts were exceedingly bitter as I -gathered the coveted articles one by one in my arms. - -"Here." I displayed it to her when I had arrived back at her father's -abode. "It is the steering wheel from the lifeboat. Feel its smooth -texture, see its ebony luster. It is the only lifeboat steering wheel -aboard ship. I had a terrible struggle with it until I broke off the -shaft." - -She seemed interested. I passed hurriedly on to another object. "Here -is the handle of the atomic-pile damping rod. It was threaded inside. -However, I have managed to grind the interior smooth." - -She seemed definitely interested, but I did not linger. I unrolled the -last treasure I had brought with me. At the sight of it her father -burst into merry chuckles. - -"Yes," I said, smiling with a hint of sadness. "It is the inscrutable -message we found protruding from the mouth of a machine some years ago. -The machine has the name Teletype engraved upon it. We cannot imagine -who put the message inside the machine--if indeed it is a message. -But listen to the poetry of its words! I shall read it to you as -though it were properly set out on paper instead of being cramped into -continuous, senseless lines: - - "Colony ship, colony ship, - Turn around before it is too late. - You have left the Galaxy. - We are the last planetary system - You will encounter, - For ten thousand years." - -Then, seeing her puzzlement, I said hastily, "But, of course, it is -too adult for you, Lisa. Its mystery is for the scholar, its abstract -beauty for the man of mature years. Come, let us turn back to these -other treasures...." - -It was not easy for her to choose, seemingly, with so much wealth about -her. The control knob, the painting, the lifeboat steering wheel, the -atomic-pile damping-rod handle, the inscrutable poetry--all claimed her -interest. But in the end she chose as I wanted her to, and the bargain -was struck. - -Lisa went to live in the compartment of my concubines that day, and at -maturity became a concubine of exotic beauty. She bore her dark-haired -children well. - - * * * * * - -By the excellence of her father, he and I continued to be good friends. -At least once a year I invite him to view the master's painting of -_Planet_. We spend many contented hours together. Often through a -porthole we watch the rapid movement of distant ships which our -Navigator called _stars_, revolving in tiny circles at the side of the -ship, making a complete circle in about two minutes. What prompts the -behavior of these ships? It is all very curious, and I account myself -fortunate that I have in my friend an intense capacity for speculation. -Like myself, he is a scholar of honor, capable of long sustained -discourse on lofty subjects which round out and deepen the mind. I -forgive him his greed. - -As I had intended, Lisa took the teletype nonsense message to be -her value to her father. May I reiterate, it is infinitely more -satisfactory to purchase wives when they are very young ladies? They -are vastly more respectful. 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