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The Alchemist, v. 1, issue 5, February 1941
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30 ----- ALCHEMIST ----- It so happened that on that night when the Ruler of Robots had experimented with a new variety of ray a space warper-Narodny had been weaving the rays of Moon, Jupiter and Saturn into Beethoven's Moonlight Symphony. The moon was a four day crescent. Jupiter was at one cusp, and Saturn hung like a pendant below the bow. Shortly Orion would stride across the Heavens and bringh Regulus and red Aldebaran, the Eye of the Bull, would furnish him with ether chords of starlight remoulded into sounds. Suddenly the woven rhythms were ripped-hideously, a devastating indescribable dissonance invaded the cavern. Beneath it, the nymphs who had been dancing languorously to the strains quivvered like mist wraiths in a sudden blast and were gone; the little moons flared, then ceased to glow. The tonal instruments were dead. And Narodny was felled as though by a blow. After a time the little moons began to glow again, but dimly; and from the tonal mechanisms came broken crippled music. Narodny stirred and set up, his lean, high cheeked face more Satanic than ever. every nerve was numb; then as they revived, agony crept along them. He sat, fighting the agony, until he could summon help. He was answered by one of the Chinese. Narodny said: "It was a spatial disturbance, Lao. And it was like nothing I have ever known. The Ruler of Robots is perfecting a ray with which to annihilate mankind." Narodny smiled: "I care nothing for mankind-yet I would not harm them, willingly. And it has occurred to me that I owe them, a great debt. Except for them I would not be. Also, it occurs to me that the robots have never produced a poet, a musician, an artist--" He laughed. "But it is in my mind that
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30 ----- ALCHEMIST ----- It so happened that on that night when the Ruler of Robots had experimented with a new variety of ray a space warper-Narodny had been weaving the rays of Moon, Jupiter and Saturn into Beethoven's Moonlight Symphony. The moon was a four day crescent. Jupiter was at one cusp, and Saturn hung like a pendant below the bow. Shortly Orion would stride across the Heavens and bringh Regulus and red Aldebaran, the Eye of the Bull, would furnish him with ether chords of starlight remoulded into sounds. Suddenly the woven rhythms were ripped-hideously, a devastating indescribable dissonance invaded the cavern. Beneath it, the nymphs who had been dancing languorously to the strains quivvered like mist wraiths in a sudden blast and were gone; the little moons flared, then ceased to glow. The tonal instruments were dead. And Narodny was felled as though by a blow. After a time the little moons began to glow again, but dimly; and from the tonal mechanisms came broken crippled music. Narodny stirred and set up, his lean, high cheeked face more Satanic than ever. every nerve was numb; then as they revived, agony crept along them. He sat, fighting the agony, until he could summon help. He was answered by one of the Chinese. Narodny said: "It was a spatial disturbance, Lao. And it was like nothing I have ever known. The Ruler of Robots is perfecting a ray with which to annihilate mankind." Narodny smiled: "I care nothing for mankind-yet I would not harm them, willingly. And it has occurred to me that I owe them, a great debt. Except for them I would not be. Also, it occurs to me that the robots have never produced a poet, a musician, an artist--" He laughed. "But it is in my mind that
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