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By Katherine Anne MacLean
12 Feb, 2019
Excerpt.......
Why were they apologetic?
It wasn't their fault that they came to Earth much too late.
THE beings stood around my bed in air suits like ski suits, with globes over their heads like upside-down fishbowls. It was all like a mas
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Excerpt.......
Why were they apologetic?
It wasn't their fault that they came to Earth much too late.
THE beings stood around my bed in air suits like ski suits, with globes over their heads like upside-down fishbowls. It was all like a masquerade, with odd costumes and funny masks.
I know that the masks are their faces, but I argue with them and find I think as if I am arguing with humans behind the masks. They are people. I recognize people and whether I am going to like this person or that person by something in the way they move and how they get excited when they talk; and I know that I like these people in a motherly sort of way. You have to feel motherly toward them, I guess.
They all remind me of Ronny, a medical student I knew once. He was small and round and eager. You had to like him, but you couldn't take him very seriously. He was a pacifist; he wrote poetry and pulled it out to read aloud at ill-timed moments; and he stuttered when he talked too fast.
They are like that, all fright and gentleness. Less
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