Crompton Divided
“‘I wish to remind you that we are engaged in an important and dangerous enterprise. We must find and incorporate Dan Stack, and do it quickly, for our own situation is delicate and precarious in the extreme. We have no time for drunkenness and fun; all that will be possible in due time. But for now there is work to be done. There must be no repetition of last night. Do I make myself clear?’ Loomis’s thoughtform expressed a civilized and rueful weariness. ‘Alistair, you really are difficult to g...et along with. I know it’s all terribly serious, but right now we’re sitting in a spaceship without anything to do.’ ‘I have thought about that,’ Crompton said. ‘We can employ our time most usefully at present by learning haut-Yggal, the main language of the planet we are going to.’ ‘Learn a language, just like that? I have no aptitude for that sort of thing.’ ‘Then you can watch quietly while I learn.’ In the ship’s library, Crompton found a copy of Bender’s Dialectical Variations of Various Common Expressions in Haut-Yggal.MoreLess
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