Lafferty, R A - Among the Hairy Earthmen

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gaze back on those several hundred years and ask: "Was that

ourselves who behaved so?"

Well, no, as a matter of fact, it wasn't. It was beings of another

sort who visited us briefly and who acted so gloriously and

abominably.

This is the way it was:

The Children had a Long Afternoon free. They could go to any of

a dozen wonderful places, but they were already in one.

Seven of them - full to the craw of wonderful places decided to go

to Eretz.

"Children are attracted to the oddest and most shambling

things," said the Mothers. "Why should they want to go to Eretz?"

"Let them go," said the Fathers. "Let them see - before they be

gone - one of the few simple peoples left. We ourselves have become

a contrived and compromised people. Let the Children be children

for half a day."

Eretz was the Planet of the Offense, and therefore it was to be

(perhaps it recently had been) the Planet of the Restitution also. But

in no other way was it distinguished. The Children had received the

tradition of Eretz as children receive all traditions - like lightning.

Hobble, Michael Goodgrind, Ralpha, Lonnie, Laurie, Bea and

Joan they called themselves as they came down on Eretz for these

were their idea of Eretzi names. But they could have as many

names as they wished in their games.

An anomalous intrusion of great heat and force! The rocks ran

like water where they came down, and there was formed a scarp-

pebble enclave.

It was all shanty country and shanty towns on Eretz clumsy

hills, badly done plains and piedmonts, ragged fields, uncleansed

rivers, whole weedpatches of provinces - not at all like Home. And

the Towns! Firenze, Praha, Venezia, Londra, Colonia, Gant, Roma -

why, they were nothing but towns made out of stone and wood! And

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