I wonder if my thoughts are being recorded now by Carleth and Reeta
for you to read? I can't tell. I've lost them. Things around me are
blurred, and I seem to be falling down through a gray, slow rain....
* * * * *
From a midnight teleaudocast by International Information Service. New
York City. September 9, 1983:
Reporter: _The preceding has been teleod as a special interest feature,
and is not intended as a factual report, naturally. The body of the man
who appeared so mysteriously, according to reports, from the atmosphere
two miles above Manhattan, and crashed into the city, cannot be
satisfactorily identified. The metal scroll which fell after him, and
which was just narrated for your interest, is obviously the work of a
quack looking for notoriety, and a possible niche in Fortean records._
_However, the Atomic Energy Commission has ordered a complete scanning
of Uranium Pile personnel. This move is reported to be motivated by the
discovery that during the afternoon, Ronal LeStrang, President of the
Atomic Energy Commission, disappeared, and no trace of him has been
found, up to this time._
_Teleflashes will be brought to you directly from the scanning rooms as
soon as further reports come in regarding President LeStrang. Security
Police say that perhaps foreign agents are again trying to bore from
within ... though they insist that there is no proof up to this time
that any foreign State is responsible for LeStrang's disappearance._
_And now there will be an interlude of music, brought to you by
special permission of Interplanetary Cultural Foundation, through the
facilities of I.I.S.'s new Teleospan System. The first number features
the Martian folk dance cycle...._