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Satellite, v. 1, issue 1, October 1938
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10 got a revelation for you -- I've found how to control this phenomena! Oh, just think of it -- I can walk through a wall at will. And I've just thought of a marvelous thing I can do. I'll be over in a minute -- don't go away -- I'll leave the power on, and then I can walk through walls without bothering to get everything, and take a few short cuts to your place." I said something, but he had hung up. For a few minutes I was undecided. My hat looked very inviting, lying on the table, with the theatre ticket beside it. But the lure of curiosity proved the stronger. After all, this was a very unusual phenomenon, and I might make quite a name for myself in the near future as the first man to see Arthur Harris in his present condition. So, with a good deal of annoyance and a good deal of wonder, I took my coat off and sat down, trying to concentrate on an article on electrons. After an hour I was very much annoyed. Once the gas flickered, and I could have sworn I heard a voice calling me, but it was only my imagination. But it was not imagination that accounted for the scream outside the house, or the confused hubbub that was gradually growing. I flung the book down, and went to the window. A little way away from the sickly splash of light thrown by the street lamp was a little crowd of people, all clustered round something in the road; yet shrinking back, as though interested but shocked, I could not see much, so I went to the front door and down into the street. "What's the matter?" I asked of one of the men on the fringe of the crowd, "Someone hurt?" He looked at me with a peculiar look of horror in his eyes, and shook his head dismally. "I don't know what it is," he said, "But I don't like it at all. It looks -- it looks -- oh, it can't be that, can it?" I pushed my way forward and people gave way very readily, as though glad to find someone who seemed in a position to show authority and take charge -- they
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10 got a revelation for you -- I've found how to control this phenomena! Oh, just think of it -- I can walk through a wall at will. And I've just thought of a marvelous thing I can do. I'll be over in a minute -- don't go away -- I'll leave the power on, and then I can walk through walls without bothering to get everything, and take a few short cuts to your place." I said something, but he had hung up. For a few minutes I was undecided. My hat looked very inviting, lying on the table, with the theatre ticket beside it. But the lure of curiosity proved the stronger. After all, this was a very unusual phenomenon, and I might make quite a name for myself in the near future as the first man to see Arthur Harris in his present condition. So, with a good deal of annoyance and a good deal of wonder, I took my coat off and sat down, trying to concentrate on an article on electrons. After an hour I was very much annoyed. Once the gas flickered, and I could have sworn I heard a voice calling me, but it was only my imagination. But it was not imagination that accounted for the scream outside the house, or the confused hubbub that was gradually growing. I flung the book down, and went to the window. A little way away from the sickly splash of light thrown by the street lamp was a little crowd of people, all clustered round something in the road; yet shrinking back, as though interested but shocked, I could not see much, so I went to the front door and down into the street. "What's the matter?" I asked of one of the men on the fringe of the crowd, "Someone hurt?" He looked at me with a peculiar look of horror in his eyes, and shook his head dismally. "I don't know what it is," he said, "But I don't like it at all. It looks -- it looks -- oh, it can't be that, can it?" I pushed my way forward and people gave way very readily, as though glad to find someone who seemed in a position to show authority and take charge -- they
tenho uma revelação pra você - descobri como controlar esse fenômeno! Ah, pense só nisso - posso atravesar uma parede à vontade. E acabei de pensar em uma coisa maravilhosa que posso fazer. Estarei aí em um minuto- não vá embora - vou deixar a energia ativada, e então posso atravessar as paredes sem me preocupar em pegar tudo, e tomar uns desvios pra sua casa." Eu ainda disse alguma coisa, mas ele ja tinha desligado. Por alguns minutos fiquei indeciso. Meu chapéu parecia muito convidativo, repousado sobre a mesa, com o ingresso para o teatro ao seu lado. Mas a semente de curiosidade se provou mais forte. Afinal, esse era um fenômeno bem incomum, e eu tinha que fazer meu nome em um futuro próximo como o primeiro homem a ter visto Arthur Harris em sua situação atual. Então, com uma boa dose de aborrecimento e uma boa dose de admiração eu tirei meu casaco e me sentei, tentando me concentrar em um artigo sobre elétrons. Depois de uma hora eu estava muito aborrecido. Quando o gás tremeluziu, eu poderia jurar ter ouvido uma voz me chamando, mas isso era apenas minha imaginação. Mas a imaginação não poderia explicar o grito que veio lá de fora, ou o burburinho confuso que crescia gradualmente. Eu deixei cair o livro e fui para janela. Um pouco a frente do tênue feixo de luz que vinha do poste de iluminação, estava uma peguena multidão de pessoa, todas amontoadas ao redor de algo na estrada; mesmo encolhido, ainda que interessado mas chocado, não podia ver muito, então fui para porta da frente e segui pela rua. "Qual o problema?" eu perguntei para um dos homens a beira da multidão, "alguem machucado?" "Ele olhou para mim com um peculiar olhar de assombro em seus olhos e sacudiu sua cabeça tristemente. "Eu não sei o que é," ele disse, "mas não gosto nem um pouco disso. Parece que - parece - ah, não poderia ser isso, poderia?" Eu tentei me aprosximar e as pessoas prontamente abriram caminho, como se gratos por encontrar alguém que parecesse estar em posição de demonstrar autoridade e tomar a frente - eles
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