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Updated: July 13, 2025
He struck a light with his cigarette lighter. He touched it to the fibre of metal. There was a burst of flame. His sleeve was singed. "Mostly magnesium," he said detachedly. "It's possible that they don't think of fire as a danger. They may not use fire any more. We don't light our houses with open flames any longer. They may not use flames at all. But I'm a savage. I do."
We must learn to use the things of life very lightly and detachedly; and to entrench ourselves in trivial associations is simply to court dreariness and to fall into a stupor of the spirit. And thus even our old memories must be treated with the same lightness and unaffectedness. We must do all we can to forget grief and disaster.
It was, of course, but as a vaguely outlined vision that these recognitions floated through what could only be alleged to be Feather's mind because there was no other name for it. The dark little staircase, the rejected and despised third floor, and Coombe detachedly announcing his plans for the house, had set the so to speak rather malarious mist flowing around her.
"The United States," said Joe awkwardly, "is going to take over the Moon. I can't miss having a hand in that! Not if it's at all possible!" "I'm afraid you will miss it, Joe," Major Holt said detachedly. "The occupation of the Moon will be a Navy enterprise. Space Exploration Project facilities are being used to prepare for it, but the Navy won the latest battle of the Pentagon.
And he was ashamed, and he was infuriated, and he yawned more violently than seemed possible. "A man's been known to dislocate his jaw, yawning like that," said Calhoun detachedly. A bland voice spoke behind him. "But if this man's jaw is dislocated, no one can help him. He is a para. We cannot join him." Calhoun turned.
"This isn't the first time," said Major Holt detachedly, "that a man has been blackmailed into trying sabotage. If he's got a family somewhere abroad, and they're threatened with death or torture unless he does such-and-such here, he's in a bad fix. It's happened. Of course he can't tell me! He's watched. But he sometimes finds an out." Joe was puzzled. His face showed it.
I have an idea what they mean, but you tell me." The four looked uncomfortable. There was a long pause. "They could be," said Calhoun detachedly, "cultures to be dumped on Weald. Weald is making plans to wipe out Dara. So some fool has decided to get Weald too busy fighting a plague of its own to bother with you. Is that right?" The young men stirred unhappily.
He had taken in shabby carpets, furniture, faded walls, general dim dinginess. "It's an unholy den for anything to spend its days in that third floor," he made the statement detachedly, in a way. "If she's six, she has lived six years there and known nothing else." "All London top floors are like it," said Feather, "and they are all nurseries and school rooms where there are children."
He went up the steps which would be pulled down before the Platform's launching and went actually inside the Space Platform for the first time. It was a moment of extreme vividness for him. Within the past hour he'd come to think detachedly of the possibility of death for himself, and then had learned that he would live for a while yet.
All through this time I had been working to the very limit of my mental and physical faculties, and my only moments of rest had been devoted to snatches of sleep. Now came this rare, unexpected interlude, and I could look detachedly upon what I was doing and feel something of its infinite wonderfulness.
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