Avram Davidson - Love Called This Thing

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Avram Davidson: Love Called This Thing

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"Embarasse de richesse," the French count had said when

he looked at all the pretty girls on the high school swim

team, and explained what it meant in English. Penny wasn't

really in love with him; she only thought she was, after pre-

tending she was, to make David jealous, which she certainly

did. But after the count gently explained to her, she and

David made up just in time for the Spring From, which

made the distant observer very happy.

At least he thought it did. "What is happy?" he often

asked himself. Maybe just pretend. You never really loved

me Rick it was just a pretense wasn't it? Like the distant

observer thinking of himself as "him" when, really, he knew

nowhad known longhe was only an "it." it's about time

we faced up to reality, Alison. Yes. It was about time. We

can't go on like this. No, certainly not. It was time.

In the beginning, there was no time. There was sight

here dark, there bright. He did not know then, of course

and how long had "then" lasted? Memory did not tell that

the bright was stars. And there was soundwhispering,

crackling, shrilling. What do you mean. Professor, when you

say that outer space is not a place of silence? And then (he

knew now that this "then" was about fifty years ago) there

had begun a new kind of sound. Not steady, but interrupted,

and interrupted according to patterns. Awareness had

stirred, gradually, and wonder. He knew later that this was

"wireless." CQ, CQ, CQ . . . SOS, SOS, SOS ...

And then the other kinds of sounds, oh, very different.

These were voices. This was "radio." And music. It was too

different; the distant observer knew distress without even

knowing that it was distress. But he grew used to itthat

is, distress ceased: but not wonder. Urgency came with the

voices. What? What? He groped for meaning, not even

knowing what meaning was.

Presently there was another kind of sight, not just the

dark and the stars any longer, but picturesflickering, fad-

ing, dancing, clear, pictures upon pictures. Gradually he

learned selectivityhow to concentrate upon one, how to

not-see, not-hear the others. Still later: how to see and hear

all without confusion. How to match sound and sight. That

things had names. What people were, who made the voices

and the music. What meaning was.

Aboat himself, he learned nothing directly. For a while,

he had tried to speak to them, but it was apparent that

nothing of him reached Earth. He had learned Earth, yes.

And knew what this place was, where he was. An asteroid.

How had he come to be there? This was in space. There

were spaceshipshe saw the scenes on television. Meteors

were dangerous to spaceships. He knew meteors. Some-

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