Lost Kafoozalum
The Lost Kafoozalum
作者：Ashwell, Pauline, 1928-2015; Schoenherr, John, 1935-2010 [Illustrator]
体例：题 章数：66
字数：97,603 来源：Project Gutenberg
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- 篇幅分布
- 平均每题 1,478 字。
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章节目录
共 66 题- THE LOST KAFOOZALUM
- Illustrated by Schoenherr
- I do not care for this at all.
- I spit out the bit I am biting and it drops away so that I can see.
- I confirm this statement and ask for explanations.
- I ask him what kind of a melodramatic shenanigan is this?
- I wait till my stomach settles, then rise to explore.
- I guess I was tired, at that.
- D. J. M'Clare.
- I seize my styler and write the decision down.
- I twiddle the note and think Well nobody asked for it yet.
- I pick up the coin and juggle it around.
- I am suddenly immensely hungry and dial breakfast all over again.
- I guess he is real, at that.
- WHAT?
- I disembowel it with one jerk. It is from my Dad and runs like this:
- Be seeing you Lizzie girl, your affectionate Dad
- I say like Hell I will.
- I say he is just as responsible for everyone else on this ship.
- Pavel: "How would BEMs learn to write?"
- The Crow: "Huh. Why write letters? Invaders just invade."
- Whereupon another voice says, "Really! Am I expected to swallow this?"
- Lennie says "_G-Gilgamesh_ was lost three hundred years ago!"
- B says, "When was she found again?"
- Lennie says The Explorer Class were all armed--
- I say, "Shall I tell you something?"
- I say this does not surprise me, at all.
- I say Whoever wrote that it was not me anyway.
- I see their point if it's all like this--
- I say, "There ought to be twenty-three."
- He lifts his gaze ceilingwards. "I'm asking for three volunteers."
- I see nothing and say so.
- I see nothing and say so.
- I stare downwards and fancy I can see a metallic gleam.
- B says numbly, "But it wasn't a meteor. It can't have been."
- B says, "Lizzie, who was it? Do you know?"
- B whispers, "You're just guessing."
- I dive in and start to pass up the package. B shakes her head.
- I bring back my feet ready to kick off on a dive through that doorway.
- The sound was--
- Like a--
- I turn up the light.
- I say not to worry, we will soon be out of here.
- I say things are under control and just keep quiet a bit.
- His eyes close. After a moment he whispers, "Something hit the ship."
- I left the kit spread out right next to him.
- I look at my chrono and see that in five minutes the hopper will come.
- Like a dancer--
- I have covered half the distance.
- There is a clatter and other sounds--
- I think the valve is still moving--
- I push the stick through and the wind snatches it away and it is gone.
- After that--
- I sit up and say "How--"
- I forgot about the broadcaster.
- I say, "Is M'Clare--"
- A voice says distantly, without emphasis, "M'Clare? He's dead."
- I sit up and say, "They said you were _dead_!"
- I say "Hey! Cut that out!"
- I say, "Hell's feathers, it was _you_!"
- Not that I know of, but--
- I inquire after his injuries and learn they are healing nicely.
- I look at him and he is frowning.
- Silence, then he says wearily, "I talked nonsense, did I?"
- I get nearly to the door when
- He says, "Golden Liz."