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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/license - - -Title: The Stuff - -Author: Henry Slesar - -Release Date: March 27, 2016 [EBook #51574] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STUFF *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/cover.jpg" width="401" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="titlepage"> -<h1>THE STUFF</h1> - -<p>By HENRY SLESAR</p> - -<p>Illustrated by Ritter</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Galaxy Magazine August 1961.<br /> -Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that<br /> -the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" width="366" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p class="ph3"><i>Would it work? Yes. How would<br /> -it work? Exactly like this.</i></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"No more lies," Paula said. "For God's sake, Doctor, no more lies. I've -been living with lies for the past year and I'm tired of them."</p> - -<p>Bernstein closed the white door before answering, mercifully obscuring -the sheeted, motionless mound on the hospital bed. He took the young -woman's elbow and walked with her down the tiled corridor.</p> - -<p>"He's dying, of course," he said conversationally. "We've never lied to -you about that, Mrs. Hills; you know what we've told you all along. I -hoped that by now you'd feel more resigned."</p> - -<p>"I was," she said bitterly. They had stopped in front of Bernstein's -small office and she drew her arm away. "But then you called me. About -this drug of yours—"</p> - -<p>"We had to call you. Senopoline can't be administered without -permission of the patient, and since your husband has been in coma for -the last four days—"</p> - -<p>He opened the door and nodded her inside. She hesitated, then walked -in. He took his place behind the cluttered desk, his grave face -distracted, and waited until she sat down in the facing chair. He -picked up his telephone receiver, replaced it, shuffled papers, and -then locked his hands on the desk blotter.</p> - -<p>"Senopoline is a curious drug," he said. "I've had little experience -with it myself. You may have heard about the controversy surrounding -it."</p> - -<p>"No," she whispered. "I don't know about it. I haven't cared about -anything since Andy's illness."</p> - -<p>"At any rate, you're the only person in the world that can decide -whether your husband receives it. It's strange stuff, as I said, but in -the light of your husband's present condition, I can tell you this—it -can do him absolutely no harm."</p> - -<p>"But it will do him good?"</p> - -<p>"There," Bernstein sighed, "is the crux of the controversy, Mrs. -Hills."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Row, row, row your boat, he sang in his mind, feeling the lapping -tongues of the cool lake water against his fingers, drifting, drifting, -under obeisant willows. Paula's hands were resting gently on his eyes -and he lifted them away. Then he kissed the soft palms and pressed them -on his cheek. When he opened his eyes, he was surprised to find that -the boat was a bed, the water only pelting rain against the window, and -the willow trees long shadows on the walls. Only Paula's hands were -real, solid and real and comforting against his face.</p> - -<p>He grinned at her. "Funniest damn thing," he said. "For a minute there, -I thought we were back at Finger Lake. Remember that night we sprang a -leak? I'll never forget the way you looked when you saw the hem of your -dress."</p> - -<p>"Andy," she said quietly. "Andy, do you know what's happened?"</p> - -<p>He scratched his head. "Seems to me Doc Bernstein was in here a while -ago. Or was he? Didn't they jab me again or something?"</p> - -<p>"It was a drug, Andy. Don't you remember? They have this new miracle -drug, senopoline. Dr. Bernstein told you about it, said it was worth -the try...."</p> - -<p>"Oh, sure, I remember."</p> - -<p>He sat up in bed, casually, as if sitting up in bed were an everyday -occurrence. He took a cigarette from the table beside him and lit one. -He smoked reflectively for a moment, and then recalled that he hadn't -been anything but horizontal for almost eight months. Swiftly, he put -his hand on his rib cage and touched the firm flesh.</p> - -<p>"The girdle," he said wonderingly. "Where the hell's the girdle?"</p> - -<p>"They took it off," Paula said tearfully. "Oh, Andy, they took it off. -You don't need it any more. You're healed, completely healed. It's a -miracle!"</p> - -<p>"A miracle...."</p> - -<p>She threw her arms about him; they hadn't held each other since the -accident a year ago, the accident that had snapped his spine in several -places. He had been twenty-two when it happened.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>They released him from the hospital three days later; after half a year -in the hushed white world, the city outside seemed wildly clamorous and -riotously colorful, like a town at the height of carnival. He had never -felt so well in his life; he was eager to put the strong springs of -his muscles back into play. Bernstein had made the usual speech about -rest, but a week after his discharge Andy and Paula were at the courts -in tennis clothes.</p> - -<p>Andy had always been a dedicated player, but his stiff-armed forehand -and poor net game had always prevented him from being anything more -than a passable amateur. Now he was a demon on the court, no ball -escaping his swift-moving racket. He astounded himself with the -accuracy of his crashing serves, his incredible play at the net.</p> - -<p>Paula, a junior champion during her college years, couldn't begin to -cope with him; laughingly, she gave up and watched him battle the club -professional. He took the first set 6-0, 6-0, 6-0, and Andy knew that -something more magical than medicinal had happened to him.</p> - -<p>They talked it over, excited as schoolchildren, all the way home. Andy, -who had taken a job in a stock-brokerage house after college, and who -had been bored silly with the whole business until the accident, began -wondering if he could make a career on the tennis court.</p> - -<p>To make sure his superb playing wasn't a fluke, they returned to the -club the next day. This time, Andy found a former Davis Cup challenger -to compete with. At the end of the afternoon, his heart pounding to -the beat of victory, he knew it was true.</p> - -<p>That night, with Paula in his lap, he stroked her long auburn hair and -said: "No, Paula, it's all wrong. I'd like to keep it up, maybe enter -the Nationals, but that's no life for me. It's only a game, after all."</p> - -<p>"Only a game?" she said mockingly. "That's a fine thing for the next -top-seeded man to say."</p> - -<p>"No, I'm serious. Oh, I don't mean I intend to stay in Wall Street; -that's not my ambition either. As a matter of fact, I was thinking of -painting again."</p> - -<p>"Painting? You haven't painted since your freshman year. You think you -can make a living at it?"</p> - -<p>"I was always pretty good, you know that. I'd like to try doing some -commercial illustration; that's for the bread and potatoes. Then, when -we don't have to worry about creditors, I'd like to do some things on -my own."</p> - -<p>"Don't pull a Gauguin on me, friend." She kissed his cheek lightly. -"Don't desert your wife and family for some Tahitian idyll...."</p> - -<p>"What family?"</p> - -<p>She pulled away from him and got up to stir the ashes in the fireplace. -When she returned, her face was glowing with the heat of the fire and -warmth of her news.</p> - -<p>Andrew Hills, Junior, was born in September. Two years later, little -Denise took over the hand-me-down cradle. By that time, Andy Hills was -signing his name to the magazine covers of America's top-circulation -weeklies, and they were happy to feature it. His added fame as -America's top-ranked amateur tennis champion made the signature all the -more desirable.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>When Andrew Junior was three, Andrew Senior made his most important -advance in the field of art—not on the cover of the <i>Saturday Evening -Post</i>, but in the halls of the Modern Museum of Art. His first exhibit -evoked such a torrent of superlatives that the <i>New York Times</i> found -the reaction newsworthy enough for a box on the front page. There was -a celebration in the Hills household that night, attended by their -closest friends: copies of slick magazines were ceremoniously burned -and the ashes placed in a dime-store urn that Paula had bought for the -occasion.</p> - -<p>A month later, they were signing the documents that entitled them to a -sprawling hilltop house in Westchester, with a north-light glassed-in -studio the size of their former apartment.</p> - -<p>He was thirty-five when the urge struck him to rectify a sordid -political situation in their town. His fame as an artist and -tennis-champion (even at thirty-five, he was top-seeded in the -Nationals) gave him an easy entree into the political melee. At first, -the idea of vote-seeking appalled him; but he couldn't retreat once the -movement started. He won easily and was elected to the town council. -The office was a minor one, but he was enough of a celebrity to attract -country-wide attention. During the following year, he began to receive -visits from important men in party circles; in the next state election, -his name was on the ballot. By the time he was forty, Andrew Hills was -a U.S. Senator.</p> - -<p>That spring, he and Paula spent a month in Acapulco, in an enchanting -home they had erected in the cool shadows of the steep mountains that -faced the bay. It was there that Andy talked about his future.</p> - -<p>"I know what the party's planning," he told his wife, "but I know -they're wrong. I'm not Presidential timber, Paula."</p> - -<p>But the decision wasn't necessary; by summer, the Asiatic Alliance had -tired of the incessant talks with the peacemakers and had launched -their attack on the Alaskan frontier. Andy was commissioned at once as -a major.</p> - -<p>His gallantry in action, his brilliant recapture of Shaktolik, White -Mountain, and eventual triumphant march into Nome guaranteed him a -place in the High Command of the Allied Armies.</p> - -<p>By the end of the first year of fighting, there were two silver stars -on his shoulder and he was given the most critical assignment of -all—to represent the Allies in the negotiations that were taking place -in Fox Island in the Aleutians. Later, he denied that he was solely -responsible for the successful culmination of the peace talks, but -the American populace thought him hero enough to sweep him into the -White House the following year in a landslide victory unparalleled in -political history.</p> - -<p>He was fifty by the time he left Washington, but his greatest triumphs -were yet to come. In his second term, his interest in the World -Organization had given him a major role in world politics. As First -Secretary of the World Council, his ability to effect a working -compromise between the ideological factions was directly responsible -for the establishment of the World Government.</p> - -<p>When he was sixty-four, Andrew Hills was elected World President, and -he held the office until his voluntary retirement at seventy-five. -Still active and vigorous, still capable of a commanding tennis game, -of a painting that set art circles gasping, he and Paula moved -permanently into the house in Acapulco.</p> - -<p>He was ninety-six when the fatigue of living overtook him. Andrew -Junior, with his four grandchildren, and Denise, with her charming -twins, paid him one last visit before he took to his bed.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>"But what <i>is</i> the stuff?" Paula said. "Does it cure or what? I have a -right to know!"</p> - -<p>Dr. Bernstein frowned. "It's rather hard to describe. It has no -curative powers. It's more in the nature of a hypnotic drug, but it has -a rather peculiar effect. It provokes a dream."</p> - -<p>"A dream?"</p> - -<p>"Yes. An incredibly long and detailed dream, in which the patient lives -an entire lifetime, and lives it just the way he would like it to be. -You might say it's an opiate, but the most humane one ever developed."</p> - -<p>Paula looked down at the still figure on the bed. His hand was moving -slowly across the bed-sheet, the fingers groping toward her.</p> - -<p>"Andy," she breathed. "Andy darling...."</p> - -<p>His hand fell across hers, the touch feeble and aged.</p> - -<p>"Paula," he whispered, "say good-by to the children for me."</p> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Stuff, by Henry Slesar - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STUFF *** - -***** This file should be named 51574-h.htm or 51574-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/1/5/7/51574/ - -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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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/license - - -Title: The Stuff - -Author: Henry Slesar - -Release Date: March 27, 2016 [EBook #51574] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STUFF *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - THE STUFF - - By HENRY SLESAR - - Illustrated by Ritter - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Galaxy Magazine August 1961. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - - - - Would it work? Yes. How would - it work? Exactly like this. - - -"No more lies," Paula said. "For God's sake, Doctor, no more lies. I've -been living with lies for the past year and I'm tired of them." - -Bernstein closed the white door before answering, mercifully obscuring -the sheeted, motionless mound on the hospital bed. He took the young -woman's elbow and walked with her down the tiled corridor. - -"He's dying, of course," he said conversationally. "We've never lied to -you about that, Mrs. Hills; you know what we've told you all along. I -hoped that by now you'd feel more resigned." - -"I was," she said bitterly. They had stopped in front of Bernstein's -small office and she drew her arm away. "But then you called me. About -this drug of yours--" - -"We had to call you. Senopoline can't be administered without -permission of the patient, and since your husband has been in coma for -the last four days--" - -He opened the door and nodded her inside. She hesitated, then walked -in. He took his place behind the cluttered desk, his grave face -distracted, and waited until she sat down in the facing chair. He -picked up his telephone receiver, replaced it, shuffled papers, and -then locked his hands on the desk blotter. - -"Senopoline is a curious drug," he said. "I've had little experience -with it myself. You may have heard about the controversy surrounding -it." - -"No," she whispered. "I don't know about it. I haven't cared about -anything since Andy's illness." - -"At any rate, you're the only person in the world that can decide -whether your husband receives it. It's strange stuff, as I said, but in -the light of your husband's present condition, I can tell you this--it -can do him absolutely no harm." - -"But it will do him good?" - -"There," Bernstein sighed, "is the crux of the controversy, Mrs. -Hills." - - * * * * * - -Row, row, row your boat, he sang in his mind, feeling the lapping -tongues of the cool lake water against his fingers, drifting, drifting, -under obeisant willows. Paula's hands were resting gently on his eyes -and he lifted them away. Then he kissed the soft palms and pressed them -on his cheek. When he opened his eyes, he was surprised to find that -the boat was a bed, the water only pelting rain against the window, and -the willow trees long shadows on the walls. Only Paula's hands were -real, solid and real and comforting against his face. - -He grinned at her. "Funniest damn thing," he said. "For a minute there, -I thought we were back at Finger Lake. Remember that night we sprang a -leak? I'll never forget the way you looked when you saw the hem of your -dress." - -"Andy," she said quietly. "Andy, do you know what's happened?" - -He scratched his head. "Seems to me Doc Bernstein was in here a while -ago. Or was he? Didn't they jab me again or something?" - -"It was a drug, Andy. Don't you remember? They have this new miracle -drug, senopoline. Dr. Bernstein told you about it, said it was worth -the try...." - -"Oh, sure, I remember." - -He sat up in bed, casually, as if sitting up in bed were an everyday -occurrence. He took a cigarette from the table beside him and lit one. -He smoked reflectively for a moment, and then recalled that he hadn't -been anything but horizontal for almost eight months. Swiftly, he put -his hand on his rib cage and touched the firm flesh. - -"The girdle," he said wonderingly. "Where the hell's the girdle?" - -"They took it off," Paula said tearfully. "Oh, Andy, they took it off. -You don't need it any more. You're healed, completely healed. It's a -miracle!" - -"A miracle...." - -She threw her arms about him; they hadn't held each other since the -accident a year ago, the accident that had snapped his spine in several -places. He had been twenty-two when it happened. - - * * * * * - -They released him from the hospital three days later; after half a year -in the hushed white world, the city outside seemed wildly clamorous and -riotously colorful, like a town at the height of carnival. He had never -felt so well in his life; he was eager to put the strong springs of -his muscles back into play. Bernstein had made the usual speech about -rest, but a week after his discharge Andy and Paula were at the courts -in tennis clothes. - -Andy had always been a dedicated player, but his stiff-armed forehand -and poor net game had always prevented him from being anything more -than a passable amateur. Now he was a demon on the court, no ball -escaping his swift-moving racket. He astounded himself with the -accuracy of his crashing serves, his incredible play at the net. - -Paula, a junior champion during her college years, couldn't begin to -cope with him; laughingly, she gave up and watched him battle the club -professional. He took the first set 6-0, 6-0, 6-0, and Andy knew that -something more magical than medicinal had happened to him. - -They talked it over, excited as schoolchildren, all the way home. Andy, -who had taken a job in a stock-brokerage house after college, and who -had been bored silly with the whole business until the accident, began -wondering if he could make a career on the tennis court. - -To make sure his superb playing wasn't a fluke, they returned to the -club the next day. This time, Andy found a former Davis Cup challenger -to compete with. At the end of the afternoon, his heart pounding to -the beat of victory, he knew it was true. - -That night, with Paula in his lap, he stroked her long auburn hair and -said: "No, Paula, it's all wrong. I'd like to keep it up, maybe enter -the Nationals, but that's no life for me. It's only a game, after all." - -"Only a game?" she said mockingly. "That's a fine thing for the next -top-seeded man to say." - -"No, I'm serious. Oh, I don't mean I intend to stay in Wall Street; -that's not my ambition either. As a matter of fact, I was thinking of -painting again." - -"Painting? You haven't painted since your freshman year. You think you -can make a living at it?" - -"I was always pretty good, you know that. I'd like to try doing some -commercial illustration; that's for the bread and potatoes. Then, when -we don't have to worry about creditors, I'd like to do some things on -my own." - -"Don't pull a Gauguin on me, friend." She kissed his cheek lightly. -"Don't desert your wife and family for some Tahitian idyll...." - -"What family?" - -She pulled away from him and got up to stir the ashes in the fireplace. -When she returned, her face was glowing with the heat of the fire and -warmth of her news. - -Andrew Hills, Junior, was born in September. Two years later, little -Denise took over the hand-me-down cradle. By that time, Andy Hills was -signing his name to the magazine covers of America's top-circulation -weeklies, and they were happy to feature it. His added fame as -America's top-ranked amateur tennis champion made the signature all the -more desirable. - - * * * * * - -When Andrew Junior was three, Andrew Senior made his most important -advance in the field of art--not on the cover of the _Saturday Evening -Post_, but in the halls of the Modern Museum of Art. His first exhibit -evoked such a torrent of superlatives that the _New York Times_ found -the reaction newsworthy enough for a box on the front page. There was -a celebration in the Hills household that night, attended by their -closest friends: copies of slick magazines were ceremoniously burned -and the ashes placed in a dime-store urn that Paula had bought for the -occasion. - -A month later, they were signing the documents that entitled them to a -sprawling hilltop house in Westchester, with a north-light glassed-in -studio the size of their former apartment. - -He was thirty-five when the urge struck him to rectify a sordid -political situation in their town. His fame as an artist and -tennis-champion (even at thirty-five, he was top-seeded in the -Nationals) gave him an easy entree into the political melee. At first, -the idea of vote-seeking appalled him; but he couldn't retreat once the -movement started. He won easily and was elected to the town council. -The office was a minor one, but he was enough of a celebrity to attract -country-wide attention. During the following year, he began to receive -visits from important men in party circles; in the next state election, -his name was on the ballot. By the time he was forty, Andrew Hills was -a U.S. Senator. - -That spring, he and Paula spent a month in Acapulco, in an enchanting -home they had erected in the cool shadows of the steep mountains that -faced the bay. It was there that Andy talked about his future. - -"I know what the party's planning," he told his wife, "but I know -they're wrong. I'm not Presidential timber, Paula." - -But the decision wasn't necessary; by summer, the Asiatic Alliance had -tired of the incessant talks with the peacemakers and had launched -their attack on the Alaskan frontier. Andy was commissioned at once as -a major. - -His gallantry in action, his brilliant recapture of Shaktolik, White -Mountain, and eventual triumphant march into Nome guaranteed him a -place in the High Command of the Allied Armies. - -By the end of the first year of fighting, there were two silver stars -on his shoulder and he was given the most critical assignment of -all--to represent the Allies in the negotiations that were taking place -in Fox Island in the Aleutians. Later, he denied that he was solely -responsible for the successful culmination of the peace talks, but -the American populace thought him hero enough to sweep him into the -White House the following year in a landslide victory unparalleled in -political history. - -He was fifty by the time he left Washington, but his greatest triumphs -were yet to come. In his second term, his interest in the World -Organization had given him a major role in world politics. As First -Secretary of the World Council, his ability to effect a working -compromise between the ideological factions was directly responsible -for the establishment of the World Government. - -When he was sixty-four, Andrew Hills was elected World President, and -he held the office until his voluntary retirement at seventy-five. -Still active and vigorous, still capable of a commanding tennis game, -of a painting that set art circles gasping, he and Paula moved -permanently into the house in Acapulco. - -He was ninety-six when the fatigue of living overtook him. Andrew -Junior, with his four grandchildren, and Denise, with her charming -twins, paid him one last visit before he took to his bed. - - * * * * * - -"But what _is_ the stuff?" Paula said. "Does it cure or what? I have a -right to know!" - -Dr. Bernstein frowned. "It's rather hard to describe. It has no -curative powers. It's more in the nature of a hypnotic drug, but it has -a rather peculiar effect. It provokes a dream." - -"A dream?" - -"Yes. An incredibly long and detailed dream, in which the patient lives -an entire lifetime, and lives it just the way he would like it to be. -You might say it's an opiate, but the most humane one ever developed." - -Paula looked down at the still figure on the bed. His hand was moving -slowly across the bed-sheet, the fingers groping toward her. - -"Andy," she breathed. "Andy darling...." - -His hand fell across hers, the touch feeble and aged. - -"Paula," he whispered, "say good-by to the children for me." - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Stuff, by Henry Slesar - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STUFF *** - -***** This file should be named 51574.txt or 51574.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/1/5/7/51574/ - -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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