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The moons were male and female, and when they--ah--united their light, the Martians held feasts, fertility rituals--highly symbolic rites." -"Only symbolic?" said Mrs. Ericson, pretending blase disappointment. +"Only symbolic?" said Mrs. Ericson, pretending blasé disappointment. "Well," grinned Don, "the Martians were only human. Just as--ah--well--I must say that a number of tourists have a tendency to chuck their @@ -791,360 +757,4 @@ though it was the end of the world. 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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: The Mating of the Moons - -Author: Kenneth O'Hara - -Release Date: October 7, 2012 [EBook #40969] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MATING OF THE MOONS *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - - - The Mating of the Moons - - _by Kenneth O'Hara_ - -[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Orbit volume 1 -number 2, 1953. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that -the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - -[Sidenote: _SHE CAME TO MARS IN SEARCH OF SOMETHING, SHE KNEW NOT WHAT, -TO GIVE HER LIFE MEANING. SHE FOUND IT ... IN A WAY...._] - - -The sun glared, fiercely detached. The thin air suddenly seemed -friendless, empty, a vast lake of poison and glassy water. All at once, -the stretching plains of sand began to waver with a terrible -insubstantiality before Madeleine's eyes. - -[Illustration] - -Even the Ruins of Taovahr were false. And for Madeleine, even if they -were not false, there was no sign of the outer garments of dream with -which, on a thousand lonely nights back home on the Earth, she had -clothed those dusty scattered skeletons of crumbled stone. - -Don, one of the brightest and most handsomely uniformed of all the -bright young guide-hosts at Martian Haven, droned on to the finish of -his machine-tooled lecture about the Ruins of Taovahr. He, of course, -was the biggest chunk of falseness on Mars. - -"And so folks, this is all that's left of a once great civilization. A -few columns and worn pieces of stone. And we can never know now how they -lived and loved and died--for no trace whatsoever of an ancient people -remain. The dim, dark seas of time have swept their age-old secrets into -the backwash of eternity--" - -"Oh God," whispered Madeleine. - -"Shhhh!" said her father. And her mother blinked at her with a resigned -tolerance. - -"But he's a living cliche," she said, trying to control the faintness, -the dizziness, the dullness coming back as the last illusion drained -away. "Even if the ruins were real, he'd make them seem trite." - -"Madeleine!" her mother gasped, but in a subdued way. - -"But there ought to be something special about a Martian ruin, Mother." - -Don had heard her. His smile was uneasy, though politely tolerant, as -all good hosts were to rich tourists. "You're hard to please, Miss -Ericson. Maybe too hard." His lingering glance stopped just short of -crudity. But the look made it clear that if she wanted the romance all -women were assumed to expect at Martian Haven, he could provide it, as -he did everything else--discreetly, efficiently and most memorably. - -Mrs. Ericson giggled. She had long since abandoned any hope of Madeleine -being, even by stretching the norm, a well-adjusted girl. But much faith -had been placed in a Martian vacation, and hope that it would provide -Madeleine with some sort of emotional preoccupation, even an affair, if -need be--something, anything, that would at least make her seem faintly -capable of a normal relationship with a male. Even this fellow Don. For -Madeleine was past thirty-five--how far past no one discussed any -more--and was becoming more tightly withdrawn every day. - -Don shouted. "All right, folks! Now we wend our way back to Martian -Haven, over a trail that's the oldest in the Solar System, a trail that -was once a mighty highway stretching from the inland city to the great -ocean that once rolled where now there is only thousands of miles of -wind-blown sands!" - -The long line of exclaiming and sickeningly gullible tourists, either -too young and wide-eyed to know better, or too old and desperate to -admit the phoniness, ooohhhed and ahhhhed, and the rickshaws and camels, -plus a few hardy adventurers on foot, turned with him as Don twisted his -own beast toward Martian Haven. - -Even the Ruins, she thought--they were like imported props lying in the -sand, like old abandoned bits of a set for a TV production. - -"Madeleine," her father said, still trying to be a big brother after -years of failure. "I really don't understand this at all. Coming all the -way to Mars, and you act like--well--like we'd just stepped around the -corner in Chicago to some ridiculous carnival!" - -"I am cursed," she whispered. "I'm tortured." - -"What?" her mother said, and stared, with that child-like curiosity with -which she had greeted Madeleine's advent into the world, and which she -had never lost. - -"Tortured by the insight that both enables and compels me to see through -the sham and pretense." - -Her father grunted and blinked twice. He almost always blinked twice -when she began sounding pedantic like that. He suspected that she did it -deliberately to show off his ignorance. - -"Funny," she said, mostly to herself, "that I allowed myself to be sold -this--Mars--the biggest piece of ersatz junk of all!" - -"Madeleine!" her mother exclaimed. - -"The advertisers got here first," Madeleine said, glancing at Don. "The -hucksters." She stopped talking. Mars offered none of itself, but the -others didn't understand. Mars was only what the hucksters wanted it to -be. - -She wondered how she could hang on to the end of the season--even though -it was only three more days. They had committed themselves to a -rigidly-planned schedule, a clockwork program that had them and the -other "vacationing" tourists jumping and squeaking like automatons: -Exotic Martian sports. Martian tennis played on a hundred-yard court -with the players hopping through the rarified air and lower gravity with -an almost obscene abandon. Swimming in a strangely buoyant water, -called, of course, Martian water. Sandsled racing. Air-hopping with the -de-gravity balloons. Spectator sports, including gladiators who leaped -into the phony canals and fought to the death against the -hideous-looking Martian rat-fish. There were many other "activities", in -none of which Madeleine had been able to interest herself. - -This last three days promised something called the "Martian Love Ritual -under the Double Moons." And a climactic treasure hunt among the -subterranean Martian labyrinths. They too, Madeleine was sure, were -artificial. - -Mrs. Ericson adjusted her polaroid glasses and waved her rickshaw boy -into his harness, where his thighs tensed for the long haul. He was an -incredibly huge man, taller even than those specially-bred movie stars, -who averaged eight feet tall. Madeleine felt faint and clung to her -camel. The Martian camels were coughing and wheezing and the sun glared -horribly in the early afternoon. - -Mr. Ericson looked with guarded apprehension at the six-legged camel. -Don pulled him aboard. "What a helluva beast!" laughed Ericson. Earth -camels specially bred by the big travel agencies to have a so-called -"unearthly" appearance. Sad creatures with two extra, dangling limbs and -a single, half-blind, blood-shot eye, watery and humbly resentful. - -Pathetic mutation, Madeleine thought. Like those horrid rat-fish, like -the canals and the games and the ruins and those silly rituals. All -ersatz. - -The caravan moved along the high ridge, a narrow trail that wound back -toward Martian Haven along the edge of the eroded cliffs. - -"Maybe the only thing that would satisfy Madeleine," her father said, -"would be a real Martian." - -"But that's not in the brochure," Don said. - -"What's Mars without a Martian?" giggled Mrs. Ericson. - -In her own insular little world, which had been the only one Madeleine -had ever been able to tolerate at all, she swayed and bumped to the -camel's movements. "One thing sure, Don," she said softly. "There were -_real_ Martians once. So why all the phony props? You can't tell me this -nonsense is better than the facts about the real Martians." - -"Ask the boys who built this place. They hired me, they make the rules," -Don said. He did not look at her. - -"How did you ever end up with a job like this, Don?" - -"The outfit that built the Haven hired all the old Martian colonists and -their descendants, any who wanted to work for them. So I took a job. -Pay's good. It's seasonal. Anyway, I like Mars." - -"Sure," she said. "You must love it--to corrupt it like this." - -"Mars was here, it'll still be here after the last tourist goes." - -She laughed thinly. Don, with her, was trying to play another role, one -he hoped she might find interesting. "You're a symbol of the phoniness, -Don. Trained in the special host schools. Selected for your beautiful -resemblance to a statue of Adonis. Artificially created to be an -ever-smiling host of good-will, just like these pathetic camels have -been bred for an exotic touch. No real intelligence, Don, nor -originality. And everything you do or say is right out of the text book -on how to make friends and influence tourists." - -Don didn't look at her. His fingers trembled on the camel's reins. - -"What is this fascinating-sounding 'Ritual of Love' going to be like?" -giggled Mrs. Ericson. - -"It's an authentic exploitation of actual rituals once held by the -Martians," Don said. "It has a pagan religious significance. The moons -were male and female, and when they--ah--united their light, the -Martians held feasts, fertility rituals--highly symbolic rites." - -"Only symbolic?" said Mrs. Ericson, pretending blasé disappointment. - -"Well," grinned Don, "the Martians were only human. Just as--ah--well--I -must say that a number of tourists have a tendency to chuck their -inhibitions during the rituals. But if not on Mars, then where?" - -"I still say," yelled Mr. Ericson from his camel, "that you should -spring a live Martian on us." - -"We get plenty of calls for them," Don said. "But so far we haven't been -able to scare up any." - -"What did they look like?" asked Mrs. Ericson. - -"Nobody knows. The only Martians around now are--ghosts," Don said, with -a strange softness. "A few old prospectors, fakirs, beggars live in -these hills--hermits. They claim they see Martians, know they're here. -They believe in ghosts. The Martian sun drives them crazy." - -"Like that old man we saw coming out here," said Mr. Ericson. - -Don nodded. "They're dangerous. You must stay away from them, you -understand. Or you'll get the contamination." - -For the first time, Madeleine felt that Don was touching something real. -She straightened. "Contamination?" - -"Those crazy old guys are like lepers. They stay apart from everybody -else. But if you go to them, you pay for it. And if you're contaminated, -it'll cost. If you really get it, you can't be cured at all. You die." - -No one said anything. Odd, Madeleine thought, his coming out with scare -talk. Didn't seem to be good propaganda. Then she got it, and laughed a -little. "Sensationalism," she said. "Pure bunk." - -"What is this contamination?" Mr. Ericson said. - -"An alien virus. Martian. Nobody's been able to isolate it. If a case -isn't too bad we cure it in the antiseptic wards, but otherwise--well, -you just wither away and die in a few hours. You're all shriveled up and -look like a mummy." - -"That's horrible!" whispered Mrs. Ericson. - -"They're diseased fakirs who say they can read the sands, predict your -future, bring you paradise, for five credits. But stay away from them!" - -And just at that moment, as though on cue, Madeleine thought, the old -man stepped out about fifty feet in front of Don's camel, and blocked -the narrow trail. - -"Caravan halt!" Don yelled and raised his hand. - -Not knowing why, laughing and exclaiming, the long line of the caravan -halted. And Madeleine stared ahead into the old man's face. The old man -was dirty, bent and very ancient and hairless, with only a soiled robe -of crude but heavy cloth hanging on his frame. There was nothing that -seemed very much alive about him except his eyes. - -Even he was a stereotype, she thought. The classic old hermit character. -The yogi, the magi, the wise old man, the Hindu Rope Trick, look into my -crystal ball, I am the teller of the sands-- - -But her heart was pounding extraordinarily loud. His eyes-- - -Don jumped from his camel. His hands were shaking as he raised his -quirt. "Out of the way!" he shouted, then turned slightly. "Don't come -any nearer, folks! It'll be all right. I'll have him out of the way in a -minute." - -"We'll all be contaminated," whispered Mrs. Ericson. - -"Just stay clear. You have to contact them directly to be contaminated," -Don said. - -He stopped five feet from the old man and raised his quirt. The old man -looked only at Madeleine, then shook his head slowly up and down as -though reaffirming some special secret. As though he shared some secret -with her. - -"Five credits," the old man said, in a loud whisper. "And I'll read the -sands for you. The Martian sands know all your secrets and the -timelessness of your dreams. Let them speak to you, through me, for five -credits." - -Don swung the quirt savagely. It was heavy, and it thudded and smacked -across the old man's face and chest. He fell in the middle of the trail. - -The sun wheeled crazily. Madeleine could hear her mother screaming and -her father yelling as she moved, as though in a trance, toward the old -man. Her feet slipped, stumbled in the shale. The old man crawled a -little, got up, fell again. - -She was screaming at Don to stop. - -The old man had fallen to one side and the trail was clear now. - -"Let him alone! Let him alone!" Madeleine screamed. "He's out of the -way!" - -"Madeleine!" Mr. Ericson shouted. "Come back! Get away from that beggar, -right now, or we return to Earth in the morning!" - -For the first time in her life, that she could remember, her father's -threats meant nothing. But the old fear was there as she moved toward -the Martian hermit, on a painful tightwire of impulse between threat and -desire. She had learned that for any real feeling--fear, joy, pain or -even the dimmest-remembered pleasure, you paid a dear price. But she -moved on. - -The old man's face was bleeding. She saw the long welts of red on the -flesh, and the blood-flecks and tortured little broken channels of blood -crossing it. Sound roared around her as she eluded Don's hands and knelt -down, took the old man's head in her arms. She tilted her canteen to his -lips. - -There was a kind of strange triumph in the old man's eyes as he -peered past her for only a moment and looked at Don. And from -somewhere--Madeleine couldn't even tell whether it was real--came a -thought. - -"_Madeleine--come back. Come back when you can. And you will find joy._" - -Later she knew how she kicked and screamed at them as they dragged her -away. How Mrs. Ericson was embarrassed by the display, and how her -father refused to touch her because of the fear of contamination. And -her mother weeping, later, because of the disgrace and because of what -the other guests would think. - -In the shiny antiseptic ward at Martian Haven, the virus was burned out -by a certain number of roentgens of carefully proportioned X-rays, gamma -rays and neutron bombardment. She kept thinking of the old man's eyes, -of the stray thought that promised joy. - -She kept seeing the old man lying off the trail among the rocks, how he -had raised himself on his elbow, and how he waggled the blood-clot of -his head in the glaring sun as they dragged Madeleine away. - -Occasionally she thought of the whole project--in Mars, Mecca of Earth -tourists, Martian Haven, Dream City of the Solar System--that was so -colorful and impressive and exotic to others, and she wondered if it was -all really as ridiculous as it seemed to her. - -She lay there in the dark of the room as evening reached over the dead -sea bottom toward the edifice that was Martian Haven. Out there in the -big amphitheatre, resurrected supposedly from old Martian ruins, Martian -Haven, with all of its rich, efficient facilities and staff, was -preparing the stage, props and guests for the Love Ritual of the Double -Moons. - -The core and centerpiece of Martian Haven was a great cubistic hotel, -with the two Martian canals on two sides, renovated, of course, and a -five-mile-long artificial lake on a third side. It was somehow designed, -in the middle of all that vast emptiness of dead sea, sand and eroded -rock, to have a not-ungraceful look of insubstantiality, as though at -any moment it might open great wings of some sort and take off into the -Martian nowhere by which it was so overwhelmingly surrounded. The side -that faced the lake curved in a half-moon, so that it commanded a wide -prospect to the eroded hills that had once been mountains to the west -and to the east thousands of unbroken miles of desert, that had once, -they said, been an ocean. - -When Madeleine opened her eyes, it was night. On many a starry night she -had lain inside walls not so different from these, and felt much the -same, she thought, surrounded by a desert of her own. Away off there in -the blackness, Earth shone palely--and she might as well never have left -it at all. - -And then again she saw the old hermit's eyes out there in the dark, his -burning eyes where there should be only sterile emptiness in the night. -And his voice calling where there would otherwise have been only the -dusty echoes of an arid past. - -Outside now the tourists were gathering in the double moonlight. The -weird extrapolation of Earth music that was supposed to be the strains -of Martian rhythms drifted to her, and lights flickered from burning -tapers where dancers undulated and writhed fitfully. A libidinous -expectancy was as heavy as a thick scent in the night. - -Then, only for a moment, she despised herself for not being with the -others, for never having been able to participate in the futile -make-believe. She felt like a child who had never grown beyond the stage -of the most old-fashioned fairy tales. Someone who had gone beyond the -looking-glass and had never been able to get back, but who had never -quite been able to forget the world from which she had come. - -She could hear her parents and Don talking in the next room. - -"It's a shame for her to miss the ritual of the double moons," Don said. - -"She's always been that way," Mr. Ericson said. "Staying by herself." - -"We've tried everything," said Mrs. Ericson. - -"She's spent half her life on an analyst's couch," said Mr. Ericson. - -"She wouldn't even," Mrs. Ericson said, "fall in love with her -_analyst_!" - -"She was only in love once," said Mr. Ericson, "and that had to be with -an idiot who was always writing sonnets." - -[Illustration] - -"A poet," said Don. "There used to be a lot of poets." - -"But not in my life," said Mr. Ericson. - -"Maybe," Don said, "your daughter expected a little bit too much from -Mars." - -"Don," Mrs. Ericson pleaded, "maybe _you_ can do something." - -"I'll be glad to try," Don said. - -So Madeleine lay there and waited for Don, the perfect host, who could -supply everyone at Martian Haven with whatever was necessary to insure a -pleasant day. - -Later, though she did not turn or make any sign of noticing, she knew he -had entered the room and was standing over her. She could see the -periphery of his giant shadow projected by moonlight over the colored -glass. - -"Madeleine--we've got a date for the ritual tonight." - -"That's odd, Don. I don't remember it." - -"But you didn't say you _wouldn't_ attend it with me, when I suggested -it this morning." - -"Well, Don, this is an official rejection of your proposal." - -She saw his shadow bend, his body drop down beside the couch. She felt -his hands on her arm. The peculiar fright went through her. - -"You won't listen, Madeleine, but whatever you're looking for -here--please forget it! The rituals will help you forget. Try it, -Madeleine! Please--" - -Why did he, all at once, sound so desperate? - -"With you?" - -"Why not?" - -"You're just an artificial dream, Don, that comes true seasonally for -people so sick that they can convince themselves you're real--for a -price." - -"Well, Madeleine--are you so different?" - -"I guess I am." - -"You just want the impossible. The others--they want little dreams we -can give them easily." - -There was a strain, a tension in him, in his hands, in his voice. -Suddenly, his hands held her, and his face was close above her lips. -"You're still young and beautiful to me," he whispered. - -She turned her face away, and gazed at the tattered and splendid veils -of moonlight as Deimos and Phobos neared one another, with undying -eagerness to consummate the timeless ritual. - -Dimly, she could hear the communal voices rising to desire. - - - "_Twin Moons, Love Moons, whirling bright, - Bring me Martian love tonight!_" - - -If you could expect too much from Mars, then where could one find the -answer to the intangible wish? Sirius. Far Centauris. And at the end of -it, the hucksters, the phony props, would be there first. - -Some people should stay on Earth, she thought, those who are so hard to -please. There the veils of space and time might keep the last illusions -living. Once you find that even the farthest star is illusory, there's -no place left to go. - -His lips were near her lips. His voice was low. "You are different!" His -throat trembled. "You really are. But--I wonder if you're different -enough." - -She was aware of the awful gnawing emptiness within her that was only -intense desire too frightened to be free. And then his lips were -crushing to hers and she allowed it, for she knew what was to be her -only way out, and the promise of union was a haze in the room like the -veils of light from the moons of Mars that joined against the starlight -of heaven. - -There was more than the ardent in his intensity. A kind of desperation, -his desire to please going beyond the line of duty. The old consuming -terror returned. - -She pushed him away. His hands reached, his body crushed. Panic. She -felt unable to breathe, and she started to scream. His hand was over her -mouth. - -"Don't look any deeper, don't probe any farther!" he said, like a -suddenly terrible threat. "I beg you, don't do it! You're -different--beautifully different, Madeleine. But not different enough! -None of them ever are!" - -She squirmed away, onto the floor between the glass and the couch, and -scurried toward the door. She could hear the gasping, the sobbing -desperation in his voice, and his shadow lengthened across the walls. - -Then, as she hesitated in the doorway, he was gone. - -She put on a nylon hiking suit and left the room. The silence of the -hall was not real, and the emptiness was not really emptiness. It was -like waking and being exasperatingly aware of only the fleeting end of a -dream. And as she slipped out a side entrance, even the wailing of -exotic musical instruments seemed in a sense not real. Even the silence, -the feeling of being followed, watched, even that seemed artificial--it -was impossible to substantiate the suspicion. - -Her palms were wet as she slipped along the wall toward the garage where -the sandsleds were kept. From the amphitheatre she could hear the -rituals, the intercessions, comminations, hymns, libations, -incense-burning, and who knew what else. She saw the reflection of -chrome and artificial glitter disguised as Martian authenticity, the -lights hanging like a grove of pastel moons, and the shrill empty -laughter of girls uncoiling as bright as tinsel through the sluggish -Martian evening. And in spite of the sound and elaborate pretension, it -all had the undying feel of lugubrious solitude. - -It had, for a doomed generation driven into inescapable conformity, the -necessary quality of a dream in which a stubborn unconsciousness seeks -ever for truth. And later, back on Earth, in the rut and groove, it -would remain only a dream no one ever talked about to anyone else. After -all, it would simply be something that happened on another world. - -She gave one brief, bitter laugh. And even on another world the last -desperate dream was false. - -There might be something to be said for release through a pagan orgy -under the double moons; she had no moral scruples about it. But the -paganism would have to be real, that was the thing. Besides, it was too -late. For a moment she pressed her flattened hands against her face and -felt tears squeezing through the tightly-locked fingers. She felt as -though she might explode somewhere inside and realized how the invisible -edges of living had cut her soul to pieces. - -It wasn't even self-pity any more. It had grown above self-pity to a -realism beyond tragedy. - -She felt icy and empty and alone as she lit a cigarette. Through the -taper smoke, the glowing amphitheatre seemed like a golden porpoise -lapped in dawn, and coupled with the expanse of the Haven it nestled in -the night to resemble a sleeping question mark, an entity gay and sad -and full of what was called life. - -There was no turning back now. There was no turning back, even to Earth, -for that would be the most humiliating defeat of all. - -Then she was inside the first sandsled. The sled moved noiselessly out -of the garage and whispered away over the sands. - -After only a few minutes the radio frightened her with an abrupt voice -like that of a disembodied spirit. - -"Madeleine!" - -She looked back through the trailing skeins of moonlight. A dark spot -was overtaking her. She couldn't go any faster. Evidently Don had one of -those racing sleds that hardly seemed to touch the sand at all. - -"Madeleine! Please--for God's sake, don't see that old hermit!" - -"For the sake of which God, Don? I understand the Martians had more than -one." - -"Madeleine! I'm begging you to come back!" - -"Why?" - -"You know why." - -"The contamination!" She laughed. "Your melodramatic devices don't -frighten me." - -"It's true. You'll die--! Come back!" - -"To what?" - -"We'll talk about it! Just come back!" - -"What's so dangerous, Don, about my not accepting things here as they're -supposed to be?" - -His voice tightened. "Just stop, stop and come back!" - -She didn't stop, didn't bother to answer. She circled the sandsled among -the hills, skirting the rocky clefts with a reckless abandon she had -never felt before, and her face was flushed as she leaned her head back -and laughed. - -"Madeleine!" - -It was the last time he called to her. After that, the silence conveyed -an intensity of purpose far stronger than verbal entreaties. - -She swerved the sandsled dangerously among the erosions, and felt the -grinding strain at the base of her skull as the sled bounded from one -spire and careened toward another, which she barely avoided smashing -into head-on. - -She recognized the area. She leaped out of the car and ran, hearing the -pursuing sandsled stop somewhere below her as she climbed. - -For an instant dizziness threatened, and the surroundings and the -motions of Don and herself and the love moons in the sky seemed wildly, -almost dangerously abstracted, as if viewed through drug-glazed eyes. A -panicky wash of blood came to her face and she struggled for breath, -wanting to cry out. It passed. Her mind groped for reason and the terror -receded. - -She went on up to the ridge and found the old man waiting. From that -high ridge where the night wind cut coldly toward the Martian south, the -lights of the rituals in the amphitheatre of Martian Haven flickered in -a misty halo far away, like phosphorescent globes of spooky glowing, and -frenetic dancings and shiftings of crazed flames. - -The old man had a vague, insubstantial look, only his eyes seemed real, -almost too real, in their intensity as he looked at her. He was propped -against a block of eroded rock and the wind rustled the fringes of his -ragged robe. - -She sat beside him, their shoulders touched. And then, as though slowly -dissolving through some chemical reaction, the old man began to fade. -Vaguely Don was there, too, in a nebulous transparency like the old man. -And Madeleine lay there, her face pressed into the sand. On Mars one -should expect, without shock, a different kind of reality. - -Their voices weren't really voices. Just thoughts, thoughts in the head, -feelings, but nothing solid. The thoughts of Don and the old man seemed -to be in some kind of time-worn conflict. - -"You encouraged her," Don was thinking. - -"Those who can see a little should be urged to try to see more. Maybe, -sometime, we'll find one who is different enough to come through to us." - -"No! It never works that way! They just--die." - -"Maybe they won't--always," the old man thought. - -Madeleine felt strangely disoriented, as though dreaming with delirious -fever. All time and space seemed for a moment to be enclosed within that -rocky space, itself unmoored and unhelmed upon a dark and compassless -ocean. - -Martians, Martians all around, but not a one to see. Like disembodied -spirits, they had long ago evolved beyond confinement to fleshly bodies. -But Earth people suspected there was something, so the younger ones, -like Don, allowed suspicion to take any stereotyped, acceptable form. -But the oldsters believed in being honest. Let those who can see--see. - -"Madeleine!" Don was thinking, desperately, as desperate as only pure -feeling can be. "Go back--back to the Haven. You can still go back!" - -"But she cannot," the old man said. "For those who come this far, -there's never anything to go back to." - -"No--I cannot," Madeleine thought. "I don't want to go back." - -"All right," Don thought after a while. "All right, Madeleine." - -Then she was on her feet and moving over sand and stone that seemed -alive toward the Ruins of Taovahr--but they were no longer ruins. She -heard the murmur of sea-tides and warmer winds sighing over a younger -land. - -The sterile sand blossomed. Aridity drifted away. "_Don! Is that you, -Don?_" - -Don seemed to be somewhere, felt rather than heard, sensed, not seen. -And instead of ruins, the high white walls and rising towers surrounded -by gardens, fountains, and through the gardens a stream of clear water, -soft with the pads of giant water lilies, trailing like glass under the -moonlight and sympathetic shadows of leaves. - -"Don! You knew what real living was in your youth. It was way, way back -in time. Didn't you? And only if you're really living do you know where -you're going, and you knew, didn't you? You gave up the machines, and -went on to freedom. You escaped the confining flesh that can be caught -up in war, and in hopeless peonage to the radios and teevee and radar -and thundering jets that drown out the song of real life, and a horde of -cunningly made, treacherous machines--" - -"Madeleine. Join us--the way we are now. You can do it--" - -"I--I can't see you, Don." - -"You don't have to. You just think about it and join us, all of us--" - -"Just--just a spirit of some kind, Don--is that it?" - -"Yes, yes--something like that! You can't explain it! Just do it!" - -It was too late, she knew that now. "We're old, too old, where I come -from, Don. When I was very young, I might have done it." Only the -wonder-filled child can go through the looking glass and--stay. - -And he knew she was right, that she was too old. But the old man had -promised her a moment of joy. She suddenly saw him--Don--the bright, -strong man waiting across the stream. "It's what you brought to me," he -said softly. "When we were young we looked this way--and we were real." - -She moved toward the water and her arms lifted to him. At first she -couldn't recognize the woman who bathed there. From the water's surface -a slight vapor drifted, and she saw the wet gleam of naked arms as they -lowered and raised and the water shone on the pale loveliness of -unashamed nakedness. And then she knew that the woman there, her hair -floating over the water, was Madeleine. She whispered her own name. - -He took her in his arms, and she could hear her breath joining his as -the mist drifted up among the buttressed writhings of the trees. She was -laughing, her breasts pressed to the damp richness of the loam, and in -the water she could see her face, white, with sharp shadows under the -eyes and a high look of joy. - -"I love you, Madeleine." - -His face was above her and his lips crushed to hers, and she could hear -the stream flowing all around her like blood in her ears. - -"I love you, Madeleine." - -A whisper went through the gray starlight that Mars was turning toward -morning. And the waters of the mind drained away, leaving high and clear -the common desire that stands like a drowned tower. - -"I love you, Madeleine." - -She could hear it all fading away--her own joy, the fires--as if -everything were melting, a wax candle dying, a wine glass draining, a -soft light dimming.... - - * * * * * - -They had found her by following the pathway left by bits of abandoned -clothing. There was nothing but the rescue party and thousands of miles -of waste around Madeleine where she lay in the ancient, dried-up creek -bed. And she was shriveled and dried out and resembled, as Don had -predicted, a mummy. But there was a kind of softness of repose on her -face that hadn't been there before. Don stood back and looked down at -her and thought about the waste. - -Mr. Ericson ran forward in his purple shirt and fell to his knees -whispering, "Madeleine, we've found you! Madeleine--Madeleine--can't you -hear your Daddy?" - -"We give you anything you want," Don whispered, but no one heard him. - -And while Mr. Ericson wept, Mrs. Ericson slumped into Don's arms as -though it was the end of the world. - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's The Mating of the Moons, by Kenneth O'Hara - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MATING OF THE MOONS *** - -***** This file should be named 40969-8.txt or 40969-8.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/0/9/6/40969/ - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://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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The moons were male and female, and when they—ah—united their light, the Martians held feasts, fertility rituals—highly symbolic rites."</p> -<p>"Only symbolic?" said Mrs. Ericson, pretending blasé disappointment.</p> +<p>"Only symbolic?" said Mrs. Ericson, pretending blasé disappointment.</p> <p>"Well," grinned Don, "the Martians were only human. Just as—ah—well—I must say that a number of tourists have a tendency to chuck their @@ -977,381 +941,6 @@ hear your Daddy?"</p> <p>And while Mr. Ericson wept, Mrs. Ericson slumped into Don's arms as though it was the end of the world.</p> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's The Mating of the Moons, by Kenneth O'Hara - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MATING OF THE MOONS *** - -***** This file should be named 40969-h.htm or 40969-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/0/9/6/40969/ - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://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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