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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: The Fool - -Author: David Mason - -Release Date: February 25, 2022 [eBook #67497] - -Language: English - -Produced by: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FOOL *** - - - - - - The FOOL - - By DAVID MASON - - Illustrated by WESTON - - _The Tarchiki were the universe's - worst pupils--and as a teacher, - Duncan was a first-rate carpenter!_ - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Infinity Science Fiction, August 1956. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -Duncan? No, he wasn't the Agent just before you. He was here in -2180--oh, a good thirty years back, Earth-time. The natives say -hundreds of years, but they're a short-lived lot. The way they cut -each other's throats, it's a wonder any of them live out the life span -they've got, anyway. - -I came out when Duncan did--knew him pretty well, as well as anybody -could. A perfect fool. Knowing him was a real education. Do anything -the other way from the way Duncan did it, and you'd be all right. - -You wouldn't think it to look at him. Well set-up man, around thirty -when he got here, intelligent face, good talker, had a degree--but -a fool. Seemed as if he couldn't do anything right. He told me once -that he'd been married, and that it had broken up. He more or less -implied that his wife had gotten sick of little things--broken dishes, -tactless remarks, carelessness. You wouldn't think that would be -enough to break up a marriage, but you've got no idea how that sort of -thing can add up. - -I was clerking for him then. I swear I did all the work. I had to. He -couldn't add, couldn't file a record, and couldn't have found one if -he'd managed somehow to put it away. I took Agent's inventories, I did -most of the trading with the native chiefs, I did everything. Duncan -just bumbled around the post, or listened to records, or wrote those -silly, hopeless, letters to his ex-wife. He was trying to get her to -come back to him. How do I know? Well, who do you think worked the -subspace transmitter, as well as doing everything else? - -The native thing really annoyed me, though, because it was dangerous. -You know the Tarchiki. They look human enough, except for minor -details. When it comes to a Tarchik female I'll overlook the green skin -and the pointed ears every time. But they aren't entirely like us. They -have a liking for war and torture that's really sickening. - -Our ancestors? Oh, now, really ... you're talking just like Duncan. -That was always his apology for them. He said our own ancestors were -pretty bad, too. Certainly they were, but I can't see any ancestor of -mine acting the way a Tarchik does with a captured enemy. And they -haven't the slightest sense of sportsmanship, either. They'd rather -jump you from ambush than fight in the open, and they won't fight at -all if the enemy's stronger than they are. That's why they've never -made any serious attempt to do in all the Earthmen on their world. -That, and greed; they get very good deals from us, and they know it. - -Anyway, I'm sure none of my ancestors ever acted like that. - - * * * * * - -But Duncan was always ready to forgive a Tarchik anything. That used -to upset the hell out of them, too, because they expect to be punished -when they're caught at anything. They don't understand our reluctance -to kill, but they respect a Patrolman's shock gun, and when they get -caught stealing or taking each other's tails they know they're going -to get a few months in quod, or what they hate much worse, a public -flogging. If they didn't get punished, they'd assume it was weakness on -our part. Just like kids. - -Anyway, there was Duncan, holding long confabs with the Tarchiki, -trying to teach them some sort of elementary ethics. Naturally, it -didn't take at all. They listened, because they love long speeches, but -they never acted on what he said. - -He used to tell them that if they stopped chopping each other up and -hanging up the rows of tails as war trophies, their lives would be a -lot pleasanter. They used to nod and applaud, but Duncan never caught -on to the simple fact that they thought this was meant to be a joke. -_They_ didn't think their lives weren't pleasant enough. After all, -look at their situation. They've got plenty to eat, without working -hard for it, plenty of time on their hands--why shouldn't they keep -down their surplus population? They don't know any other way, except -breaking up their eggs, and they only do that to enemy tribes. - -While he was at it, Duncan tried to tell them all about love and things -like that. Oh, no, not sex. If there's anything a Tarchik doesn't -know about _that_, there's no Earthman going to teach him. I mean the -way they treat their women. A Tarchik woman's nothing but a piece of -property as far as sex goes, but there's some kind of curious maternal -inheritance thing--anyway, it's as funny as hell to see a big Tarchik -buck get down and bump his head in front of his mother, and his aunts, -and all his other female ancestors. That's the one thing he's really -afraid of. But, till she gets to be a mother, a woman leads a fairly -rough life, getting passed around as a kind of prize of war, working -harder than the men, all that. - -So Duncan wanted them to be a bit chivalrous to their women. Share the -work, all kinds of things like that. You know what they thought of that -idea--another Earthman's joke. - -But the funniest thing of all, to them, was his idea about the kids. -Naturally, a Tarchik pup's no use to its father till it's a bit grown. -Then, if it's a boy, the old man teaches it to drink _smassi_ and file -its teeth, and go out ambushing and cutting tails with the other noble -savages. If it's a girl, the father looks around for a suitable buyer -as soon as its breasts are grown, and hopes for the best price possible. - -To the mothers, though, the kids represent a kind of investment, since -custom directs the first loyalties to the mother's clan. So they treat -them pretty well, although a bit casually, since they litter by twos -and at least once a year. - -Anyway, Duncan seemed to think highly of kids. Can't imagine why, since -he never had any of his own. He used to run a kind of school for them. -Taught them all kinds of things a Tarchik's got no use for at all, made -toys for them--badly, naturally; he couldn't have cut his initials in -a tree without slicing his thumb. But what he couldn't make in the way -of school stuff, he imported from Earth. Cost him his entire salary, -except for what he spent on those futile letters to his wife. - -Those kids were fond of him, I suppose--as fond of him as a Tarchik -ever gets of anything. They even kept the school foolishness going -awhile afterward, but I think it's gone now. - -Anything that fool Duncan said, the Tarchiki thought was a great joke. -They wouldn't have hurt his feelings for anything, for fear he'd quit -telling them tall stories. They told him quite a few things, too. He -wrote it all down, in dead earnest, as if their fairy tales and drum -poems had any value. I sent the whole lot off to his wife, after it -happened. I think it got lost in transit--I never heard from her, -anyway. Or she may have thrown it all away. I can't imagine what else -you could do with such a pile of nonsense. - -As a matter of fact, that's what led up to it--those damned legends. -Duncan got interested in their religion. Never do that, boy. Let 'em -all have their ghost stories and wooden gods, and never fool around -with their idea of what makes the planet go round. - -The Tarchiks have a lot of small time fetishes, but they also have -one big god, a fat one made out of stone, out in the jungle over near -Mount Clarke. Every so often they all go up in a body and pay him a -visit, and they take along any spare pups, usually extra girl children -or prisoners from other tribes. This god--Kachan, his name is, I -think--likes children too. He likes them best roasted, like birds on a -spit. Charming deity. - -Anyway, when Duncan found out about Kachan, he got very upset. He went -blazing out there to Mount Clarke, and he blew Kachan all to bits with -a grenade. The Tarchiki didn't care for that, naturally. - -About a week later, Duncan was on his way over to the big village near -here, to give his Tarchik kids another arithmetic lesson, I suppose. -Old Stancha--he was the local religious big shot, a kind of High -Priest--threw a spear from the bushes, Tarchik fashion, and nailed -Duncan very neatly. Nailed, yes. That's the way we found him, with his -back against a tree. - -Just another case of a man's foolishness catching up with him. But -Duncan hasn't stopped giving us trouble yet, dead or not. First thing -that happened was that old Stancha came in to the post, demanding to -be executed. He claimed he'd made a big mistake killing Duncan, the -biggest mistake of his life. I never could figure out what he meant--it -seemed to have something to do with what Duncan said to him just before -he died. - -Well, if Stancha had kept his mouth shut, we'd have had no case at -all, which would have been just fine with me. I was Agent, in Duncan's -place, and I was out to see to it that business stayed good and got -better. Can't annoy the natives by executing their high priest and -expect good trade. But I couldn't very well let Stancha go, either, -once he'd confessed. So I had him tried, all proper and correct, and -executed him in due form. - -Next thing I knew, the Tarchiks were putting Kachan back together -again. They were all up there, building a great big new version, and -having a first class party at the same time. These parties generally -lead to a tail-hunting expedition, so I expected some trouble. But it -didn't, this time. - -There was plenty of noise, though. The Tarchiki never do anything -quietly, and this seemed to be an occasion. What with drums, bagpipes, -wailing and howling, there wasn't a bird would roost for twenty miles -around. - -When they got all through, I went up to look over the new statue, out -of curiosity, and because I'd heard that they hadn't sacrificed a -single pup. I thought there must be something queer about Kachan Number -Two. There was. - -It was Duncan. They'd given him a tail, and he looked more like a -Tarchik than an Earthman, but the face was unmistakable. They aren't -half bad carvers, you know; and they'd really spread themselves this -time. The thing was forty feet tall, and it stood on a rock platform, -with some words carved in that lettering Duncan had taught them to use. -The words were something Duncan was supposed to have said as he was -dying. - -I never could read that stuff really well; all I got out of the thing -was that Duncan was forgiving the old murderer, because he didn't know -what he was doing. Pure nonsense, of course, but you don't expect a -dying man to make sense, and particularly not Duncan. But it seems -those words were what had caused all the to-do. - -I found the story in one of those ballads Duncan had collected. Seems -that the Tarchiki had been expecting a great teacher to show up, -who'd do all sorts of wonderful things for them. Nothing unusual; all -primitives have some story like that. But there was something else. - -The idea was that if the Tarchiki listened to this teacher, he'd make -them the most important people in the whole world; in the universe, -in fact, from the way the thing sounded. Just how, wasn't specified. -But if they should let him be killed, they would know who he had been -because of his last words, forgiving them. Naturally, they fitted -Duncan right in; forgiving anybody would be the least likely idea in -any Tarchik's mind if he were being speared. - -So the Tarchiki think they've made a terrible mistake, and they seem -bent on spending the rest of time making up for it. It's the leading -religion now, and it's the biggest joke I've ever come across. Poor -Duncan, wrong-headed as he was about nearly everything else, had a bit -of sense in that department; he never had any religious nonsense in him. - -Anyway, it shows you, doesn't it? I've always said you can learn a -little from practically anything. You keep Duncan in mind, any time you -get to feeling too soft on these natives. He might be a god to these -Tarchiki, but I'll tell you the real test of whether a man's got any -sense; he's dead, I'm alive, and you're alive. 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No, he wasn't the Agent just before you. He was here in -2180—oh, a good thirty years back, Earth-time. The natives say -hundreds of years, but they're a short-lived lot. The way they cut -each other's throats, it's a wonder any of them live out the life span -they've got, anyway.</p> - -<p>I came out when Duncan did—knew him pretty well, as well as anybody -could. A perfect fool. Knowing him was a real education. Do anything -the other way from the way Duncan did it, and you'd be all right.</p> - -<p>You wouldn't think it to look at him. Well set-up man, around thirty -when he got here, intelligent face, good talker, had a degree—but -a fool. Seemed as if he couldn't do anything right. He told me once -that he'd been married, and that it had broken up. He more or less -implied that his wife had gotten sick of little things—broken dishes, -tactless remarks, carelessness. You wouldn't think that would be -enough to break up a marriage, but you've got no idea how that sort of -thing can add up.</p> - -<p>I was clerking for him then. I swear I did all the work. I had to. He -couldn't add, couldn't file a record, and couldn't have found one if -he'd managed somehow to put it away. I took Agent's inventories, I did -most of the trading with the native chiefs, I did everything. Duncan -just bumbled around the post, or listened to records, or wrote those -silly, hopeless, letters to his ex-wife. He was trying to get her to -come back to him. How do I know? Well, who do you think worked the -subspace transmitter, as well as doing everything else?</p> - -<p>The native thing really annoyed me, though, because it was dangerous. -You know the Tarchiki. They look human enough, except for minor -details. When it comes to a Tarchik female I'll overlook the green skin -and the pointed ears every time. But they aren't entirely like us. They -have a liking for war and torture that's really sickening.</p> - -<p>Our ancestors? Oh, now, really ... you're talking just like Duncan. -That was always his apology for them. He said our own ancestors were -pretty bad, too. Certainly they were, but I can't see any ancestor of -mine acting the way a Tarchik does with a captured enemy. And they -haven't the slightest sense of sportsmanship, either. They'd rather -jump you from ambush than fight in the open, and they won't fight at -all if the enemy's stronger than they are. That's why they've never -made any serious attempt to do in all the Earthmen on their world. -That, and greed; they get very good deals from us, and they know it.</p> - -<p>Anyway, I'm sure none of my ancestors ever acted like that.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>But Duncan was always ready to forgive a Tarchik anything. That used -to upset the hell out of them, too, because they expect to be punished -when they're caught at anything. They don't understand our reluctance -to kill, but they respect a Patrolman's shock gun, and when they get -caught stealing or taking each other's tails they know they're going -to get a few months in quod, or what they hate much worse, a public -flogging. If they didn't get punished, they'd assume it was weakness on -our part. Just like kids.</p> - -<p>Anyway, there was Duncan, holding long confabs with the Tarchiki, -trying to teach them some sort of elementary ethics. Naturally, it -didn't take at all. They listened, because they love long speeches, but -they never acted on what he said.</p> - -<p>He used to tell them that if they stopped chopping each other up and -hanging up the rows of tails as war trophies, their lives would be a -lot pleasanter. They used to nod and applaud, but Duncan never caught -on to the simple fact that they thought this was meant to be a joke. -<i>They</i> didn't think their lives weren't pleasant enough. After all, -look at their situation. They've got plenty to eat, without working -hard for it, plenty of time on their hands—why shouldn't they keep -down their surplus population? They don't know any other way, except -breaking up their eggs, and they only do that to enemy tribes.</p> - -<p>While he was at it, Duncan tried to tell them all about love and things -like that. Oh, no, not sex. If there's anything a Tarchik doesn't -know about <i>that</i>, there's no Earthman going to teach him. I mean the -way they treat their women. A Tarchik woman's nothing but a piece of -property as far as sex goes, but there's some kind of curious maternal -inheritance thing—anyway, it's as funny as hell to see a big Tarchik -buck get down and bump his head in front of his mother, and his aunts, -and all his other female ancestors. That's the one thing he's really -afraid of. But, till she gets to be a mother, a woman leads a fairly -rough life, getting passed around as a kind of prize of war, working -harder than the men, all that.</p> - -<p>So Duncan wanted them to be a bit chivalrous to their women. Share the -work, all kinds of things like that. You know what they thought of that -idea—another Earthman's joke.</p> - -<p>But the funniest thing of all, to them, was his idea about the kids. -Naturally, a Tarchik pup's no use to its father till it's a bit grown. -Then, if it's a boy, the old man teaches it to drink <i>smassi</i> and file -its teeth, and go out ambushing and cutting tails with the other noble -savages. If it's a girl, the father looks around for a suitable buyer -as soon as its breasts are grown, and hopes for the best price possible.</p> - -<p>To the mothers, though, the kids represent a kind of investment, since -custom directs the first loyalties to the mother's clan. So they treat -them pretty well, although a bit casually, since they litter by twos -and at least once a year.</p> - -<p>Anyway, Duncan seemed to think highly of kids. Can't imagine why, since -he never had any of his own. He used to run a kind of school for them. -Taught them all kinds of things a Tarchik's got no use for at all, made -toys for them—badly, naturally; he couldn't have cut his initials in -a tree without slicing his thumb. But what he couldn't make in the way -of school stuff, he imported from Earth. Cost him his entire salary, -except for what he spent on those futile letters to his wife.</p> - -<p>Those kids were fond of him, I suppose—as fond of him as a Tarchik -ever gets of anything. They even kept the school foolishness going -awhile afterward, but I think it's gone now.</p> - -<p>Anything that fool Duncan said, the Tarchiki thought was a great joke. -They wouldn't have hurt his feelings for anything, for fear he'd quit -telling them tall stories. They told him quite a few things, too. He -wrote it all down, in dead earnest, as if their fairy tales and drum -poems had any value. I sent the whole lot off to his wife, after it -happened. I think it got lost in transit—I never heard from her, -anyway. Or she may have thrown it all away. I can't imagine what else -you could do with such a pile of nonsense.</p> - -<p>As a matter of fact, that's what led up to it—those damned legends. -Duncan got interested in their religion. Never do that, boy. Let 'em -all have their ghost stories and wooden gods, and never fool around -with their idea of what makes the planet go round.</p> - -<p>The Tarchiks have a lot of small time fetishes, but they also have -one big god, a fat one made out of stone, out in the jungle over near -Mount Clarke. Every so often they all go up in a body and pay him a -visit, and they take along any spare pups, usually extra girl children -or prisoners from other tribes. This god—Kachan, his name is, I -think—likes children too. He likes them best roasted, like birds on a -spit. Charming deity.</p> - -<p>Anyway, when Duncan found out about Kachan, he got very upset. He went -blazing out there to Mount Clarke, and he blew Kachan all to bits with -a grenade. The Tarchiki didn't care for that, naturally.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>About a week later, Duncan was on his way over to the big village near -here, to give his Tarchik kids another arithmetic lesson, I suppose. -Old Stancha—he was the local religious big shot, a kind of High -Priest—threw a spear from the bushes, Tarchik fashion, and nailed -Duncan very neatly. Nailed, yes. That's the way we found him, with his -back against a tree.</p> - -<p>Just another case of a man's foolishness catching up with him. But -Duncan hasn't stopped giving us trouble yet, dead or not. First thing -that happened was that old Stancha came in to the post, demanding to -be executed. He claimed he'd made a big mistake killing Duncan, the -biggest mistake of his life. I never could figure out what he meant—it -seemed to have something to do with what Duncan said to him just before -he died.</p> - -<p>Well, if Stancha had kept his mouth shut, we'd have had no case at -all, which would have been just fine with me. I was Agent, in Duncan's -place, and I was out to see to it that business stayed good and got -better. Can't annoy the natives by executing their high priest and -expect good trade. But I couldn't very well let Stancha go, either, -once he'd confessed. So I had him tried, all proper and correct, and -executed him in due form.</p> - -<p>Next thing I knew, the Tarchiks were putting Kachan back together -again. They were all up there, building a great big new version, and -having a first class party at the same time. These parties generally -lead to a tail-hunting expedition, so I expected some trouble. But it -didn't, this time.</p> - -<p>There was plenty of noise, though. The Tarchiki never do anything -quietly, and this seemed to be an occasion. What with drums, bagpipes, -wailing and howling, there wasn't a bird would roost for twenty miles -around.</p> - -<p>When they got all through, I went up to look over the new statue, out -of curiosity, and because I'd heard that they hadn't sacrificed a -single pup. I thought there must be something queer about Kachan Number -Two. There was.</p> - -<p>It was Duncan. They'd given him a tail, and he looked more like a -Tarchik than an Earthman, but the face was unmistakable. They aren't -half bad carvers, you know; and they'd really spread themselves this -time. The thing was forty feet tall, and it stood on a rock platform, -with some words carved in that lettering Duncan had taught them to use. -The words were something Duncan was supposed to have said as he was -dying.</p> - -<p>I never could read that stuff really well; all I got out of the thing -was that Duncan was forgiving the old murderer, because he didn't know -what he was doing. Pure nonsense, of course, but you don't expect a -dying man to make sense, and particularly not Duncan. But it seems -those words were what had caused all the to-do.</p> - -<p>I found the story in one of those ballads Duncan had collected. Seems -that the Tarchiki had been expecting a great teacher to show up, -who'd do all sorts of wonderful things for them. Nothing unusual; all -primitives have some story like that. But there was something else.</p> - -<p>The idea was that if the Tarchiki listened to this teacher, he'd make -them the most important people in the whole world; in the universe, -in fact, from the way the thing sounded. Just how, wasn't specified. -But if they should let him be killed, they would know who he had been -because of his last words, forgiving them. Naturally, they fitted -Duncan right in; forgiving anybody would be the least likely idea in -any Tarchik's mind if he were being speared.</p> - -<p>So the Tarchiki think they've made a terrible mistake, and they seem -bent on spending the rest of time making up for it. It's the leading -religion now, and it's the biggest joke I've ever come across. Poor -Duncan, wrong-headed as he was about nearly everything else, had a bit -of sense in that department; he never had any religious nonsense in him.</p> - -<p>Anyway, it shows you, doesn't it? I've always said you can learn a -little from practically anything. You keep Duncan in mind, any time you -get to feeling too soft on these natives. He might be a god to these -Tarchiki, but I'll tell you the real test of whether a man's got any -sense; he's dead, I'm alive, and you're alive. That's enough proof for -me.</p> - -<div style='display:block; margin-top:4em'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FOOL ***</div> -<div style='text-align:left'> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will -be renamed. -</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -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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