Part 64 (2/2)
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”Ira! Galahad! Got him?”
”Yes! Hoist us in! Oh, what a mess! Ish, about two liters and lots of jelly.”
”Get him inside and let me see him. Lor, you can get us out of here now.”
”Seal up, Dora, and bounce it!”
”Sealed and zooming! Screens down! What the G.o.dd.a.m.n h.e.l.l have they done to Boss?”
”I'm trying to find out, Dora. Be ready with the tank; I may freeze him.”
”Ready now, Ish. Laz-Lor, I told you we should pick him up sooner. I told told you.” you.”
”Pipe down, Dora. We told told him he'd get his a.s.s shot off. But he was having more fun than kittens-” him he'd get his a.s.s shot off. But he was having more fun than kittens-”
”-and wouldn't have thanked us-”
”-and wouldn't have come-”
”-you know how stubborn he is.”
”Tamara,” said Ishtar, ”cuddle his head and talk to him. Keep him alive. I don't want to freeze him-if at all-until I've made temporary repairs. Hamadryad, clamp there! Mm Galahad, one slug hit the Finder. That's how his intestines got so chopped up.”
”Clone-trans?”
”Perhaps. The way he regenerates, repair and support may be enough. Justin, you were right; the dates on his letters did prove that he didn't last through it; losing the Finder's signal pinpointed when and where. Galahad, are you finding more fragments? I want to close him. Tamara, rouse him, make him talk! I don't don't want to have to freeze him. The rest of you shut up and get want to have to freeze him. The rest of you shut up and get out! out! Go help Minerva with the children.” Go help Minerva with the children.”
”Glad to,” Justin said hoa.r.s.ely. ”I'm about to throw up.”
”Maureen?” Lazarus murmured.
”I'm here, darling,” Tamara answered, cradling his head against her b.r.e.a.s.t.s.
”Bad . . dream. Thought . . I was . . dead.”
”Just a dream, Beloved. You cannot die.”
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Gregorian Terran dates are used throughout, as no other calendar, not even Standard Galactic, is certain to be known to scholars of every planet. Translators should add local dates for clarification.
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When the Howard Families seized the Stars.h.i.+p New Frontiers New Frontiers only a few were more than a century and a quarter old; all of that few-save the Senior-are dead, at times and places on record. (I except the strange and possibly mythical case of life-in-death of Elder Mary Sperling.) Despite genetic advantage and access to the longevity therapies known collectively as ”the immortality option,” the last died in 3003 Gregorian. By the records it would seem that most of them died through refusing further rejuvenation-that being still the second commonest cause of death today. only a few were more than a century and a quarter old; all of that few-save the Senior-are dead, at times and places on record. (I except the strange and possibly mythical case of life-in-death of Elder Mary Sperling.) Despite genetic advantage and access to the longevity therapies known collectively as ”the immortality option,” the last died in 3003 Gregorian. By the records it would seem that most of them died through refusing further rejuvenation-that being still the second commonest cause of death today.
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(1) Ira Johnson was less than eighty at the time the Senior claims (elsewhere) to have left home. Ira Johnson was himself a Doctor of Medicine. How long he practiced, and whether or not he ever let another Doctor of Medicine attend him, are not known.
J.F. 45th (2) Ira Ira Howard- Howard-Ira Johnson-This appears to be a chance coincidence of given names at a time when Biblical names were common. Families' genealogists have been unable to trace any consanguinity. Johnson-This appears to be a chance coincidence of given names at a time when Biblical names were common. Families' genealogists have been unable to trace any consanguinity.
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Ira Johnson was seventy when Lazarus Long was ten.
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