| Then I turned and chucked the
gun to the Old Man; he plucked it out of the air. ‘What happened?’ he asked. ‘Uh? I don’t know. When I got to it, it was enough to know that I could.’ ‘I figured it would be.’ I felt warm and relaxed, as if I had just killed a man or had a woman – as if I had just killed it. I was able to turn my back on it. Heinlein 1951 [1974], p.64 |