Robert A Heinlein - All You Zombies

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Robert A. Heinlein. All you zombies
2217 Time Zone V (EST) 7 Nov. 1970-NTC- "Pop's Place":
I was polishing a brandy snifter when the Unmarried Mother came
in. I noted the time-10: 17 P. M. zone five, or eastern time,
November 7th, 1970. Temporal agents always notice time and
date; we must.
The Unmarried Mother was a man twenty-five years old,
no taller than I am, childish features and a touchy temper. I
didn't like his looks - I never had - but he was a lad I was
here to recruit, he was my boy. I gave him my best barkeep's
smile.
Maybe I'm too critical. He wasn't swish; his nickname
came from what he always said when some nosy type asked him his
line: "I'm an unmarried mother. -- If he felt less than
murderous he would add: "at four cents a word. I write
confession stories. --
If he felt nasty, he would wait for somebody to make
something of it. He had a lethal style of infighting, like a
female cop - reason I wanted him. Not the only one.
He had a load on, and his face showed that he despised
people more than usual. Silently I poured a double shot of Old
Underwear and left the bottle. He drank it, poured another.
I wiped the bar top. -- How's the "Unmarried Mother"
racket? --
His fingers tightened on the glass and he seemed about
to throw it at me; I felt for the sap under the bar. In
temporal manipulation you try to figure everything, but there
are so many factors that you never take needless risks.
I saw him relax that tiny amount they teach you to
watch for in the Bureau's training school. -- Sorry, " I said.
-- Just asking, "How's business? " Make it "How's the weather?
--
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He looked sour. -- Business is okay. I write "em, they
print "em, I eat. --
I poured myself one, leaned toward him. -- Matter of
fact, " I said, "you write a nice stick - I've sampled a few.
You have an amazingly sure touch with the woman's angle. --
It was a slip I had to risk; he never admitted what
pen-names he used. But he was boiled enough to pick up only the
last: "'Woman's angle! "" he repeated with a snort. -- Yeah, I
know the woman's angle. I should. --
"So? -- I said doubtfully. -- Sisters? --
"No. You wouldn't believe me if I told you. --
"Now, now, " I answered mildly, "bartenders and
psychiatrists learn that nothing is stranger than truth. Why,
son, if you heard the stories I do-well, you'd make yourself
rich. Incredible. --
"You don't know what "incredible" means! "
"So? Nothing astonishes me. I've always heard worse. --
He snorted again. -- Want to bet the rest of the
bottle? --
"I'll bet a full bottle. -- I placed one on the bar.
"Well-" I signaled my other bartender to handle the
trade. We were at the far end, a single-stool space that I kept
private by loading the bar top by it with jars of pickled eggs
and other clutter. A few were at the other end watching the
fights and somebody was playing the juke box-private as a bed
where we were.
"Okay, " he began, "to start with, I'm a bastard. --
"No distinction around here, " I said.
"I mean it, " he snapped. -- My parents weren't
married. --
"Still no distinction, " I insisted. -- Neither were
mine. --
"When-" He stopped, gave me the first warm look I ever
saw on him. -- You mean that? --
"I do. A one-hundred-percent bastard. In fact, " I
added, "no one in my family ever marries. All bastards.
"Oh, that. -- I showed it to him. -- It just looks like
a wedding ring; I wear it to keep women off. -- It is an
antique I bought in 1985 from a fellow operative - he had
fetched it from pre-Christian Crete. -- The Worm Ouroboros...
the World Snake that eats its own tail, forever without end. A
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