![]() ![]() ![]() “Yesss … let’sss do it!” came the warbling, squeaky voice, at last. He closed his eyes and made the delinquent muscles relax, one by one. “Makakai… are you ready?” He tried not to sound impatient, or betray the tension he felt building in the back of his neck as he waited. Facing downward, he could see a small leopard shark swim lazily past, a bit out of place here in the deeper water offshore. The occupant of the other waldo whale, lying half submerged a few meters away, had heard every word. ![]() One more time he checked the tiny indicators on his helmet display. The water lapped gently against the bulbous nose of his mechanical whale, as he waited for an answer. OUT OF THE WHALE-DREAM Makakai, are you ready?” Jacob ignored the tiny whirrings of motors and valves in his metal cocoon. PART I … it is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star. OF LIFE AND DEATH … 16.…AND APPARITIONS PART VI 17. To my brothers Dan and Stan, to Arglebargle the IVth … and to somebody else. A Bantam Spectra Book / February 1980 All rights reserved. ![]()
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