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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Beside Still Waters + +Author: Robert Sheckley + +Illustrator: Virgil Finlay + +Release Date: July 18, 2009 [EBook #29446] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BESIDE STILL WATERS *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<h1><big>BESIDE<br /> +STILL<br /> +WATERS</big></h1> + +<h2><small>BY ROBERT SHECKLEY</small></h2> + +<div class="bq"><p><i>When people talk about getting away from it all, they +are usually thinking about our great open spaces out +west. But to science fiction writers, that would be +practically in the heart of Times Square. When a man +of the future wants solitude he picks a slab of rock +floating in space four light years east of Andromeda. +Here is a gentle little story about a man who sought +the solitude of such a location. And who did he take +along for company? None other than Charles the Robot.</i></p></div> + +<p class="cap"><span class="smcap">Mark Rogers</span> was a prospector, +and he went to the +asteroid belt looking for radioactives +and rare metals. He +searched for years, never finding +much, hopping from fragment to +fragment. After a time he settled +on a slab of rock half a mile +thick.</p> + +<p>Rogers had been born old, and +he didn't age much past a point. +His face was white with the pallor +of space, and his hands shook a +little. He called his slab of rock +Martha, after no girl he had ever +known.</p> + +<p>He made a little strike, enough +to equip Martha with an air +pump and a shack, a few tons of +dirt and some water tanks, and a +robot. Then he settled back and +watched the stars.</p> + +<p>The robot he bought was a +standard-model all-around +worker, with built-in memory and +a thirty-word vocabulary. Mark +added to that, bit by bit. He was +something of a tinkerer, and he +enjoyed adapting his environment +to himself.</p> + +<p>At first, all the robot could +say was "Yes, sir," and "No, +sir." He could state simple problems: +"The air pump is laboring, +sir." "The corn is budding, sir." +He could perform a satisfactory +salutation: "Good morning, sir."</p> + +<p>Mark changed that. He eliminated +the "sirs" from the robot's +vocabulary; equality was the rule +on Mark's hunk of rock. Then he +dubbed the robot Charles, after a +father he had never known.</p> + +<p>As the years passed, the air +pump began to labor a little as it +converted the oxygen in the planetoid's +rock into a breathable atmosphere. +The air seeped into +space, and the pump worked a +little harder, supplying more.</p> + +<p>The crops continued to grow +on the tamed black dirt of the +planetoid. Looking up, Mark +could see the sheer blackness of +the river of space, the floating +points of the stars. Around him, +under him, overhead, masses of +rock drifted, and sometimes the +starlight glinted from their black +sides. Occasionally, Mark caught +a glimpse of Mars or Jupiter. +Once he thought he saw Earth.</p> + +<p>Mark began to tape new responses +into Charles. He added +simple responses to cue words. +When he said, "How does it +look?" Charles would answer, +"Oh, pretty good, I guess."</p> + +<p>At first the answers were what +Mark had been answering himself, +in the long dialogue held +over the years. But, slowly, he +began to build a new personality +into Charles.</p> + +<p>Mark had always been suspicious +and scornful of women. +But for some reason he didn't +tape the same suspicion into +Charles. Charles' outlook was +quite different.</p> + +<hr /> + +<p>"What do you think of girls?" +Mark would ask, sitting on a +packing case outside the shack, +after the chores were done.</p> + +<p>"Oh, I don't know. You have +to find the right one." The robot +would reply dutifully, repeating +what had been put on its tape.</p> + +<p>"I never saw a good one yet," +Mark would say.</p> + +<p>"Well, that's not fair. Perhaps +you didn't look long enough. +There's a girl in the world for +every man."</p> + +<p>"You're a romantic!" Mark +would say scornfully. The robot +would pause—a built-in pause—and +chuckle a carefully constructed +chuckle.</p> + +<p>"I dreamed of a girl named +Martha once," Charles would +say. "Maybe if I would have +looked, I would have found her."</p> + +<p>And then it would be bedtime. +Or perhaps Mark would want +more conversation. "What do you +think of girls?" he would ask +again, and the discussion would +follow its same course.</p> + +<div class="figright"><img src="images/001.png" width="376" height="550" alt="" title="" /></div> + +<p>Charles grew old. His limbs +lost their flexibility, and some of +his wiring started to corrode. +Mark would spend hours keeping +the robot in repair.</p> + +<p>"You're getting rusty," he +would cackle.</p> + +<p>"You're not so young yourself," +Charles would reply. He +had an answer for almost everything. +Nothing involved, but an +answer.</p> + +<p>It was always night on Martha, +but Mark broke up his time into +mornings, afternoons and evenings. +Their life followed a simple +routine. Breakfast, from vegetables +and Mark's canned store. +Then the robot would work in +the fields, and the plants grew +used to his touch. Mark would +repair the pump, check the water +supply, and straighten up the +immaculate shack. Lunch, and +the robot's chores were usually +finished.</p> + +<hr /> + +<p>The two would sit on the packing +case and watch the stars. +They would talk until supper, +and sometimes late into the endless +night.</p> + +<p>In time, Mark built more complicated +conversations into +Charles. He couldn't give the +robot free choice, of course, but +he managed a pretty close approximation +of it. Slowly, Charles' +personality emerged. But it was +strikingly different from Mark's.</p> + +<p>Where Mark was querulous, +Charles was calm. Mark was +sardonic, Charles was naive. Mark +was a cynic, Charles was an +idealist. Mark was often sad; +Charles was forever content.</p> + +<p>And in time, Mark forgot he +had built the answers into +Charles. He accepted the robot +as a friend, of about his own age. +A friend of long years' standing.</p> + +<p>"The thing I don't understand," +Mark would say, "is why +a man like you wants to live here. +I mean, it's all right for me. No +one cares about me, and I never +gave much of a damn about anyone. +But why you?"</p> + +<p>"Here I have a whole world," +Charles would reply, "where on +Earth I had to share with billions. +I have the stars, bigger and +brighter than on Earth. I have +all space around me, close, like +still waters. And I have you, +Mark."</p> + +<p>"Now, don't go getting sentimental +on me—"</p> + +<p>"I'm not. Friendship counts. +Love was lost long ago, Mark. +The love of a girl named Martha, +whom neither of us ever met. +And that's a pity. But friendship +remains, and the eternal night."</p> + +<p>"You're a bloody poet," Mark +would say, half admiringly. "A +poor poet."</p> + +<hr /> + +<p>Time passed unnoticed by the +stars, and the air pump hissed +and clanked and leaked. Mark +was fixing it constantly, but the +air of Martha became increasingly +rare. Although Charles labored in +the fields, the crops, deprived of +sufficient air, died.</p> + +<p>Mark was tired now, and barely +able to crawl around, even without +the grip of gravity. He stayed +in his bunk most of the time. +Charles fed him as best he could, +moving on rusty, creaking limbs.</p> + +<p>"What do you think of girls?"</p> + +<p>"I never saw a good one yet."</p> + +<p>"Well, that's not fair."</p> + +<p>Mark was too tired to see the +end coming, and Charles wasn't +interested. But the end was on +its way. The air pump threatened +to give out momentarily. There +hadn't been any food for days.</p> + +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/002.png" width="205" height="268" alt="" title="" /></div> + +<p>"But why you?" Gasping in +the escaping air. Strangling.</p> + +<p>"Here I have a whole world—"</p> + +<p>"Don't get sentimental—"</p> + +<p>"And the love of a girl named +Martha."</p> + +<p>From his bunk Mark saw the +stars for the last time. Big, bigger +than ever, endlessly floating in +the still waters of space.</p> + +<p>"The stars ..." Mark said.</p> + +<p>"Yes?"</p> + +<p>"The sun?"</p> + +<p>"—shall shine as now."</p> + +<p>"A bloody poet."</p> + +<p>"A poor poet."</p> + +<p>"And girls?"</p> + +<p>"I dreamed of a girl named +Martha once. Maybe if—"</p> + +<p>"What do you think of girls? +And stars? And Earth?" And it +was bedtime, this time forever.</p> + +<p>Charles stood beside the body +of his friend. He felt for a pulse +once, and allowed the withered +hand to fall. He walked to a +corner of the shack and turned +off the tired air pump.</p> + +<p>The tape that Mark had prepared +had a few cracked inches +left to run. "I hope he finds his +Martha," the robot croaked, and +then the tape broke.</p> + +<p>His rusted limbs would not +bend, and he stood frozen, staring +back at the naked stars. Then he +bowed his head.</p> + +<p>"The Lord is my shepherd," +Charles said. "I shall not want. +He maketh me to lie down in +green pastures; he leadeth +me ..."</p> + +<div class="trn"><div class="figt"><a href="images/003-2.jpg"><img src="images/003-1.jpg" width="144" height="200" alt="" title="" /></a></div> + +<p><b><big>Transcriber's Note:</big></b></p> + +<p>This etext was produced from <i>Amazing Stories</i> Oct.-Nov. 1953. +Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. +copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and +typographical errors have been corrected without note.</p></div> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Beside Still Waters, by Robert Sheckley + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BESIDE STILL WATERS *** + +***** This file should be named 29446-h.htm or 29446-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/2/9/4/4/29446/ + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Beside Still Waters + +Author: Robert Sheckley + +Illustrator: Virgil Finlay + +Release Date: July 18, 2009 [EBook #29446] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BESIDE STILL WATERS *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + + BESIDE + STILL + WATERS + + BY ROBERT SHECKLEY + + + _When people talk about getting away from it all, they are usually + thinking about our great open spaces out west. But to science + fiction writers, that would be practically in the heart of Times + Square. When a man of the future wants solitude he picks a slab of + rock floating in space four light years east of Andromeda. Here is a + gentle little story about a man who sought the solitude of such a + location. And who did he take along for company? None other than + Charles the Robot._ + + +Mark Rogers was a prospector, and he went to the asteroid belt looking +for radioactives and rare metals. He searched for years, never finding +much, hopping from fragment to fragment. After a time he settled on a +slab of rock half a mile thick. + +Rogers had been born old, and he didn't age much past a point. His face +was white with the pallor of space, and his hands shook a little. He +called his slab of rock Martha, after no girl he had ever known. + +He made a little strike, enough to equip Martha with an air pump and a +shack, a few tons of dirt and some water tanks, and a robot. Then he +settled back and watched the stars. + +The robot he bought was a standard-model all-around worker, with +built-in memory and a thirty-word vocabulary. Mark added to that, bit +by bit. He was something of a tinkerer, and he enjoyed adapting his +environment to himself. + +At first, all the robot could say was "Yes, sir," and "No, sir." He +could state simple problems: "The air pump is laboring, sir." "The corn +is budding, sir." He could perform a satisfactory salutation: "Good +morning, sir." + +Mark changed that. He eliminated the "sirs" from the robot's vocabulary; +equality was the rule on Mark's hunk of rock. Then he dubbed the robot +Charles, after a father he had never known. + +As the years passed, the air pump began to labor a little as it +converted the oxygen in the planetoid's rock into a breathable +atmosphere. The air seeped into space, and the pump worked a little +harder, supplying more. + +The crops continued to grow on the tamed black dirt of the planetoid. +Looking up, Mark could see the sheer blackness of the river of space, +the floating points of the stars. Around him, under him, overhead, +masses of rock drifted, and sometimes the starlight glinted from their +black sides. Occasionally, Mark caught a glimpse of Mars or Jupiter. +Once he thought he saw Earth. + +Mark began to tape new responses into Charles. He added simple responses +to cue words. When he said, "How does it look?" Charles would answer, +"Oh, pretty good, I guess." + +At first the answers were what Mark had been answering himself, in the +long dialogue held over the years. But, slowly, he began to build a new +personality into Charles. + +Mark had always been suspicious and scornful of women. But for some +reason he didn't tape the same suspicion into Charles. Charles' outlook +was quite different. + + * * * * * + +"What do you think of girls?" Mark would ask, sitting on a packing case +outside the shack, after the chores were done. + +"Oh, I don't know. You have to find the right one." The robot would +reply dutifully, repeating what had been put on its tape. + +"I never saw a good one yet," Mark would say. + +"Well, that's not fair. Perhaps you didn't look long enough. There's a +girl in the world for every man." + +"You're a romantic!" Mark would say scornfully. The robot would pause--a +built-in pause--and chuckle a carefully constructed chuckle. + +"I dreamed of a girl named Martha once," Charles would say. "Maybe if I +would have looked, I would have found her." + +And then it would be bedtime. Or perhaps Mark would want more +conversation. "What do you think of girls?" he would ask again, and +the discussion would follow its same course. + +[Illustration] + +Charles grew old. His limbs lost their flexibility, and some of his +wiring started to corrode. Mark would spend hours keeping the robot in +repair. + +"You're getting rusty," he would cackle. + +"You're not so young yourself," Charles would reply. He had an answer +for almost everything. Nothing involved, but an answer. + +It was always night on Martha, but Mark broke up his time into mornings, +afternoons and evenings. Their life followed a simple routine. +Breakfast, from vegetables and Mark's canned store. Then the robot would +work in the fields, and the plants grew used to his touch. Mark would +repair the pump, check the water supply, and straighten up the +immaculate shack. Lunch, and the robot's chores were usually finished. + + * * * * * + +The two would sit on the packing case and watch the stars. They would +talk until supper, and sometimes late into the endless night. + +In time, Mark built more complicated conversations into Charles. He +couldn't give the robot free choice, of course, but he managed a pretty +close approximation of it. Slowly, Charles' personality emerged. But it +was strikingly different from Mark's. + +Where Mark was querulous, Charles was calm. Mark was sardonic, Charles +was naive. Mark was a cynic, Charles was an idealist. Mark was often +sad; Charles was forever content. + +And in time, Mark forgot he had built the answers into Charles. He +accepted the robot as a friend, of about his own age. A friend of long +years' standing. + +"The thing I don't understand," Mark would say, "is why a man like you +wants to live here. I mean, it's all right for me. No one cares about +me, and I never gave much of a damn about anyone. But why you?" + +"Here I have a whole world," Charles would reply, "where on Earth I had +to share with billions. I have the stars, bigger and brighter than on +Earth. I have all space around me, close, like still waters. And I have +you, Mark." + +"Now, don't go getting sentimental on me--" + +"I'm not. Friendship counts. Love was lost long ago, Mark. The love of a +girl named Martha, whom neither of us ever met. And that's a pity. But +friendship remains, and the eternal night." + +"You're a bloody poet," Mark would say, half admiringly. "A poor poet." + + * * * * * + +Time passed unnoticed by the stars, and the air pump hissed and clanked +and leaked. Mark was fixing it constantly, but the air of Martha became +increasingly rare. Although Charles labored in the fields, the crops, +deprived of sufficient air, died. + +Mark was tired now, and barely able to crawl around, even without the +grip of gravity. He stayed in his bunk most of the time. Charles fed him +as best he could, moving on rusty, creaking limbs. + +"What do you think of girls?" + +"I never saw a good one yet." + +"Well, that's not fair." + +Mark was too tired to see the end coming, and Charles wasn't interested. +But the end was on its way. The air pump threatened to give out +momentarily. There hadn't been any food for days. + +[Illustration] + +"But why you?" Gasping in the escaping air. Strangling. + +"Here I have a whole world--" + +"Don't get sentimental--" + +"And the love of a girl named Martha." + +From his bunk Mark saw the stars for the last time. Big, bigger than +ever, endlessly floating in the still waters of space. + +"The stars ..." Mark said. + +"Yes?" + +"The sun?" + +"--shall shine as now." + +"A bloody poet." + +"A poor poet." + +"And girls?" + +"I dreamed of a girl named Martha once. Maybe if--" + +"What do you think of girls? And stars? And Earth?" And it was bedtime, +this time forever. + +Charles stood beside the body of his friend. He felt for a pulse once, +and allowed the withered hand to fall. He walked to a corner of the +shack and turned off the tired air pump. + +The tape that Mark had prepared had a few cracked inches left to run. "I +hope he finds his Martha," the robot croaked, and then the tape broke. + +His rusted limbs would not bend, and he stood frozen, staring back at +the naked stars. Then he bowed his head. + +"The Lord is my shepherd," Charles said. "I shall not want. He maketh me +to lie down in green pastures; he leadeth me ..." + + + + +Transcriber's Note: + + This etext was produced from _Amazing Stories_ Oct.-Nov. 1953. + Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. + copyright on this publication was renewed. 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