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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: Shatter the Wall - -Author: Sydney Van Scyoc - -Release Date: March 27, 2016 [EBook #51576] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SHATTER THE WALL *** - - - - -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="386" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="titlepage"> -<h1>SHATTER THE WALL</h1> - -<p>By SYDNEY VAN SCYOC</p> - -<p>Illustrated by WEST</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Galaxy Magazine February 1962.<br /> -Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that<br /> -the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p class="ph3"><i>They were a charming family and everybody<br /> -loved them to death—especially Amanda!</i></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>There he stood, Bass McDowall, life-size on the Wall. She made herself -look at the hateful broad-shouldered image with the deliberately -penetrating black eyes. She made herself watch his boy-image bend over -Kippie's slender girl-image, made herself listen to his mellow voice -gasp, "Kippie, sweetie-bug."</p> - -<p>Savagely she thrust upward on the ebony lever. Bass McDowall, Wall -idol, and Kippie lurched and disappeared. Lights glowed from fixtures -recessed into the ceiling, illuminating the long, windowless Wall room.</p> - -<p>Kathryn, whose hair was a snug, dark Kippie-cap, leaped from the Wall -seat. "Don't turn it off now! Couldn't you even tell, Mother? He's -going to kiss her! Turn it back on this minute!"</p> - -<p>Amanda stationed herself before the lever, shaking her head. "Not until -I've spoken to you," she said. "Kathryn, I don't think you realize -yet what it means, but you're the youngest person, the very youngest, -living in this city."</p> - -<p>"Quit calling me that! Everyone has to call me Kippie." She cocked her -dark head, Kippie-like. The red mark caused by the constant prodding -of her index finger against her cheek glared. "Bass loves Kippie. He -called her sweetie-bug."</p> - -<p>"I refuse to call you Kippie." She folded her arms. "I don't want to -discuss your name again, Kathryn."</p> - -<p>"It will be Kippie." She squirmed into a Kippie-like position. "Soon as -I'm twenty-one, I'll change it. You wait!"</p> - -<p>"Perhaps you will, Kathryn. But I'll never call you Kippie."</p> - -<p>"Oh, quit being silly and turn it on. He might kiss her again." She -focused her blue eyes upon the Wall. "Turn it on."</p> - -<p>"Kathryn, I want to talk to you, and I intend to do so without Bass -McDowall staring over my shoulder." She sat down beside her daughter. -"Now, Kathryn, you're nineteen years old, and you're certainly -attractive by any—"</p> - -<p>"I don't have dimples like Kippie does." Remembering, she poked her -finger back into her cheek.</p> - -<p>"I'm not talking about Kippie." She stared at the finger sunk into her -daughter's cheek, wondering how many times she had explained that it -wouldn't cause a dimple. "I want you to get married, Kathryn."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>"I've told you a million times, I won't. You're always after me!" she -wailed. "Bass won't ever marry anyone, not even Kippie, and she's got -dimples. Bass says—"</p> - -<p>"Bass McDowall is not a real person. He's only an actor."</p> - -<p>"He's the realest thing in the world. But he won't marry me, so you'd -better forget it." She stepped to turn the Wall on again.</p> - -<p>Instantly the ash tray was in Amanda's hand, the massive glass tray -Dell had given her. She hurled it at the Wall, which shattered with a -brittle explosive splintering.</p> - -<p>Kathryn jumped back, wailing. "I hate you!" Frantically she manipulated -the lever and twisted the ebony dials. "Bass, come back. Bass!"</p> - -<p>Amanda patted the Wall seat. "Sit down, Kathryn."</p> - -<p>Finally the girl sat down, sullenly rubbing her eyes with her fists.</p> - -<p>"Kathryn, have you noticed that we never see infants on the Wall? We -never see small children, either, because, Kathryn, you're the youngest -person in this city. The week after you were born, the city hospital's -obstetrical ward closed permanently."</p> - -<p>Kathryn sobbed convulsively. "Who needs babies? I want Bass!"</p> - -<p>"The human race needs babies! Kathryn, you sit so complacently in front -of your Wall and pretend there isn't a world! There won't be unless you -wake up."</p> - -<p>"Don't be silly!"</p> - -<p>"I'm not. Kathryn, you may be the youngest person in the world, for -all I know. Forty or fifty years from now this planet will be cluttered -with blank Walls. There'll be no one to watch them."</p> - -<p>"Well, there's nothing I can do about it. I'm not different, like you."</p> - -<p>"Kathryn, marry. Have children. Persuade your friends at the office—"</p> - -<p>She laughed shrilly, rocking back against the Wall seat. "Friends! They -hate me, every one of them, and I hate them. Even if Bass did marry me, -they'd only take him away."</p> - -<p>Amanda clutched her fists. "I don't want you to marry Bass. You must -find some nice boy your own age."</p> - -<p>"Oh, Mother! You want me to marry some stupid, ugly boy! You can't make -me!"</p> - -<p>"Kathryn, he needn't be dull. There are hundreds of boys, each -interesting in—"</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Hearing a sound, she looked up to see Dell, thin and red-headed, -standing in the doorway staring at the shattered Wall.</p> - -<p>Kathryn jumped up. "Mother broke it. She threw that big green ash tray -and broke it all to pieces."</p> - -<p>Dell looked questioningly at Amanda. "Honey, why'd you do that?"</p> - -<p>"She's jealous of Bass!"</p> - -<p>"Now isn't Bass pretty young for you, honey?" He stooped to remove the -ash tray from inside the shattered Wall. "Now, how can I watch Alice -this evening? She promised me a special dance in that red dress she was -showing me last night."</p> - -<p>"Showing you?" She sprang up. "She showed it to every man in the -country, Dell."</p> - -<p>He frowned. "Well, I'll call Replacements. They'll have a new Wall in -before Alice comes."</p> - -<p>"And I'll smash it too. I'll smash every replacement you can buy!"</p> - -<p>"Now, Amanda." He regarded her mildly. "You're not jealous of Alice! -Honey, if you'd watch Lester, you wouldn't care about Alice and me."</p> - -<p>She took the intact ash tray from him. "I'm not jealous of Alice, and I -haven't been for twenty years. But Dell, do you realize Kathryn was the -last child born in this city?"</p> - -<p>The girl's voice was harsh. "She wants me to marry some stupid, ugly -boy. And I won't do it! I love Bass."</p> - -<p>Dell's pale eyes were rebuking. "Amanda, how can you expect Kippie to -do that?"</p> - -<p>She stepped back. "Kippie?" she said harshly. "Dell, that girl standing -there is Kathryn, our daughter—not Kippie."</p> - -<p>"Don't let such little things upset you, baby. I'll go call -Replacements, and we'll all sit down together when Alice and Lester -come." He turned.</p> - -<p>She seized his arm. "I will <i>not</i> watch Lester," she said. "I will not -sit and stare at that big, gray-haired ape and pretend I'm in love with -him."</p> - -<p>Dell frowned. "You don't really think he looks like an ape, do you, -baby? I was—well, thinking of changing my name to Lester."</p> - -<p>Kathryn leaped to hug him. "Oh Daddy! It'll be so wonderful. Lester, -Lester, Lester! If we had an Alice and a Bass, we'd be almost like a -real family."</p> - -<p>She stared at them. "I'd hoped to put you in a favorable frame of mind -for this, Kathryn," she said. "You'll remember that three years ago the -Watsons, next door, had Wall failure and couldn't get service until -morning. I invited them to watch our Wall."</p> - -<p>Dell nodded. "Haven't seen them since, now that I think of it."</p> - -<p>"You haven't. But tonight Mrs. Watson is lending me her son Gerald. -He's coming at seven."</p> - -<p>"Mother!" Kathryn cried, releasing Dell. "How terrible! Gerald! What a -stupid name. I love Bass, and you can't take him away from me."</p> - -<p>"That wasn't very nice, was it, Amanda?"</p> - -<p>"It's done," she said. "He's twenty-two, and I want you to talk to him, -Kathryn."</p> - -<p>Kathryn scowled.</p> - -<p>"And I've arranged for you to go over to their house to watch Alice, if -you must, Dell."</p> - -<p>Dell forgot he was indignant. "Well, Kippie, maybe this one time you -can do as your mother wants," he said. "Surely Bass won't mind if you -miss him this once. He's an understanding sort of chap."</p> - -<p>Kathryn thought for a moment, scowling. "All right, I'll do it—if -you'll call me Kippie, Mother."</p> - -<p>Amanda studied her. "All right—Kippie," she said finally.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>After agreeing reluctantly not to call Replacements until Gerald had -come and gone, Kippie wriggled into a Kippie-like position and poked -her finger deep into her cheek again.</p> - -<p>Gerald, who arrived promptly at seven, wore his light hair combed -into a Bass-like curl low over his forehead. He speared Amanda with a -penetrating stare, making her shiver as she led him to the Wall room.</p> - -<p>Kippie sulked angrily on the Wall seat.</p> - -<p>Amanda introduced them, and they looked at each other, their glances -revealing no interest.</p> - -<p>"You're trying to comb your hair like Bass," Kippie accused.</p> - -<p>Gerald grinned. "Sure thing, sweetie-bug."</p> - -<p>"Then you should dye it. It's the wrong color. Bass doesn't have blond -hair. And why is your name still Gerald? Don't you ever want to be -Bass?"</p> - -<p>Gerald looked slapped. "I tried. Honest, I really did. But you know -there's a limit, and the man at the bureau said there were too many -Basses already." His face brightened. "But my parents call me Bass all -the time."</p> - -<p>"Oh."</p> - -<p>Gerald shuffled his feet. Gingerly he sat down.</p> - -<p>"Uh, did you see them last night?" he asked.</p> - -<p>"Of course. I always see them, except when my mother does something -stupid."</p> - -<p>Quickly Amanda excused herself and went to the Food Center. She leaned -against the counter, trying to overhear their conversation.</p> - -<p>They spoke in broken murmurs momentarily, then were silent.</p> - -<p>Kippie cleared her throat irritably.</p> - -<p>"Uh, nice weather," Gerald said loudly.</p> - -<p>"I haven't been out."</p> - -<p>They were silent again. She tried to make her fingers stop picking at a -spot on the counter surface.</p> - -<p>Suddenly Kippie emerged hurriedly from the Wall room, looking put upon.</p> - -<p>"Where are you going?" Amanda demanded.</p> - -<p>"He can't talk like Bass, even when he tries. And his hair is the wrong -color, and he has blue eyes."</p> - -<p>"But Kathryn—Kippie, those are external characteristics! You can't -judge a person by the color of his hair and his eyes. You must get -acquainted with him."</p> - -<p>"I won't do it. I don't love him. I love Bass!" She cocked her head, -Kippie-like. "And besides, he loves the real Kippie. And I'll never -have dimples. I'm going to call Replacements."</p> - -<p>Amanda seized her arm. "Call them, and I'll break the new Wall too. -I'll break every Wall you bring into this house. Don't you understand -what's happening?"</p> - -<p>"Quit being stupid."</p> - -<p>"I'll break every Wall you have installed."</p> - -<p>"And every time you do it, I'll order a new one." She broke loose and -ran to the communicator.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>She had to do something. She wondered briefly, must I do something? It -could only be the survival instinct driving her. Perhaps, she thought -wryly, she was the only person who still possessed that particular -instinct.</p> - -<p>She could never break every Wall in the world, no matter how she tried.</p> - -<p>She picked up the magazine Kippie had thrown down that morning. Running -her finger over the cover, she poked it through Bass's penetrating eye. -She poked Kippie in the nose.</p> - -<p>She flipped the magazine open and went through it, mutilating the -pages. "There's a hole in your head, Lester....</p> - -<p>"One less eye for you, Alice....</p> - -<p>"Poor little Kippie, I tore your chin. Right through the dimple. Will -Bass love you now, Kippie?</p> - -<p>"Goodby, Bass." She crumpled him into a ball and threw him at the sink.</p> - -<p>On the next page was a print of a restaurant. She read the caption.</p> - -<p>"For two hours each evening, while filmed sequences are shown to the -home audience, the stars retire to Antola's for sandwiches, drinks and -shop talk."</p> - -<p>She tried to stop her thoughts as they went to the sleeping alcove and -the old gun in the top shelf of the built-ins. Dell hadn't bothered to -unload it since he'd cleaned it last.</p> - -<p>She dropped the magazine and went to the top shelf of the built-ins. -The gun was there.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>It didn't take her long to drive downtown. There were no other cars on -the streets, and the current to the traffic lights had been cut three -years before. She passed only a prowling squad car, and the two police -stared at her curiously.</p> - -<p>She parked a block from Antola's. Leaving the car, she slung her purse, -heavy with the gun, over her arm. Briskly she walked down the deserted -street.</p> - -<p>Antola, standing behind the bar, was tall, thin and red-headed. He -stared at her incredulously, wiping his hands repeatedly on his long -white apron.</p> - -<p>She went past the bar to a small table.</p> - -<p>Antola continued to wipe his hands, as if they would not quite come -dry. "You want something?"</p> - -<p>"Yes, bring me a bacon and tomato sandwich and milk."</p> - -<p>"Don't have bacon and tomato. Kippie, she likes tuna. Bass hamburg. -Lester and Alice, they both take grilled cheese. Which do you want?"</p> - -<p>"Bring me tuna and milk."</p> - -<p>"Kippie, she says milk don't go with tuna. Makes a big blob inside."</p> - -<p>"I said tuna and milk."</p> - -<p>"Okay, if you want a blob inside. Kippie don't." He ambled away.</p> - -<p>Not knowing how long she might have to wait, she nibbled at her -sandwich.</p> - -<p>Soon she heard voices approaching the restaurant. She snaked her hand -toward the purse, opened it and clutched the gun.</p> - -<p>Alice entered first, her hair a disciplined halo of red-gold, her eyes -vivid green. She was quarreling with Bass, who cheerfully ignored her, -his penetrating eyes staring greedily at the bottles behind the bar.</p> - -<p>Small, precocious-seeming Kippie followed, her dark hair ruffled by the -wind. She stared lovingly up into Lester's eyes.</p> - -<p>When the door had closed behind them, Amanda stood and raised the gun. -They hadn't noticed her, they'd been too anxious to mount the bar -stools. Ducks in a shooting gallery, she thought.</p> - -<p>Alice was sitting nearer her, combing her hair with her fingers. -Holding the gun out before her with both hands, Amanda aimed it at -Alice's hair. She pulled the trigger.</p> - -<p>At the sound, they all tried to duck, except Alice, who folded quietly -to the floor. Amanda aimed again, and this time Lester crumpled.</p> - -<p>Ducks in a shooting gallery, she thought. See if you can make that big -drake, Bass, fall off his stool.</p> - -<p>Bass fell. Kippie screamed, banishing her dimples, and fell beside him.</p> - -<p>Antola had disappeared. It didn't matter. She returned the gun to her -purse. She hadn't decided what to do next. Suddenly feeling hungry, she -sat down to finish her sandwich.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>When she was through, she rose, slung her purse over her arm again and -stepped past the four bodies. They hardly seemed real, lying in their -separate pools of crimson.</p> - -<p>The two policemen came in, staring at her again.</p> - -<p>"Catch her!" Antola cried from beneath the bar. "She done it! She -killed them all! Poor little Kippie!"</p> - -<p>The florid policeman locked his hand about her wrist, while the other -cried for Antola to come out.</p> - -<p>Her wrists were quickly handcuffed, and the florid policeman escorted -her to the police car. He shoved her into the back seat.</p> - -<p>She didn't move, didn't think. The world seemed frozen.</p> - -<p>It didn't begin to thaw again until the second squad car and the -ambulances arrived. They came slowly, without sirens or flashing -lights. She wondered why they came so casually.</p> - -<p>The florid policeman returned to the car. "All dead," he said. "Even -poor little Kippie."</p> - -<p>Silently they drove the deserted streets. She looked out at the -buildings, knowing the people inside them soon would be shocked by -the news of the stars' deaths.</p> - -<p>When they reached police headquarters, she had to run to keep up with -the florid policeman as he pulled her up the stone steps. They walked -endless corridors, gray and gloomy, until they emerged into a small, -dim room.</p> - -<p>A man in a tweed coat, who smoked a pipe and spoke suavely, stepped -from the group of men in street clothes.</p> - -<p>"Did you kill them?" he asked. "Don't be afraid to tell me. I only want -to know if you killed them."</p> - -<p>She nodded. "Certainly I did it."</p> - -<p>He took her purse from the uniformed policeman and removed the gun. -"But why, tell me. Were you jealous of Alice, perhaps?" His pipe jumped -as he smiled confidentially.</p> - -<p>"Certainly not!" she said. "I did it to save the human race from -suicide."</p> - -<p>The men smiled, amused.</p> - -<p>"Lock her up until we decide," the man in tweed instructed the florid -policeman. He gave her the purse, minus the gun.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>A bony, disapproving matron led her to a cell and locked her into it. -Amanda requested pencil and paper.</p> - -<p>The matron frowned but brought them. Placing the paper against her -purse, she began composing a statement to the press, making clear her -motives.</p> - -<p>The filmed sequence still played on the small Wall opposite her cell. -She glanced up occasionally at the faces and smiled.</p> - -<p>She had almost completed the statement when the filmed sequence ended. -The small, oily emcee appeared upon the Wall. "Ladies and gentlemen," -he said.</p> - -<p>She waited expectantly for the death announcement.</p> - -<p>"Our stars!" He flung out his arms dramatically.</p> - -<p>And the four stars pranced, smiling, across the Wall. Kippie, Bass, -Alice and Lester.</p> - -<p>Amanda jumped to the bars. It was not a film.</p> - -<p>"Matron!" she screamed. "Matron!" Frantically she stared at the four -actors whom she had murdered and who were alive and smiling.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" width="292" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>"Matron!"</p> - -<p>The bony matron unlocked the cell. "Come with me."</p> - -<p>"Matron, I killed them. I shot them!"</p> - -<p>"Come with me."</p> - -<p>The matron led her into a small, dim room.</p> - -<p>The tweedy man smiled confidentially around his pipe. "Are you ready to -go home, Mrs. Davis?"</p> - -<p>"But I murdered them. You have to keep me here!" She tried to catch -the lapels of his suit.</p> - -<p>He smiled again. "Who did you murder, Mrs. Davis?"</p> - -<p>"All of them. You know I did it. I shot them, and they were all dead. -He said so—the policeman." Her hands shook.</p> - -<p>"Look over there." He pointed to a small Wall. "They're alive and -performing, aren't they, Mrs. Davis?"</p> - -<p>She looked at the Wall. Alice and Lester were planting a small rose -bush together.</p> - -<p>"You see, occasionally women do suffer from delusions like yours," he -said. "But now that you've recovered, I'll drive you home. After a -quiet night you'll forget all this."</p> - -<p>"They aren't delusions," she insisted. "I did it, with my husband's -gun. I waited until they closed the door, then I aimed—I know I did -it."</p> - -<p>"Yes, certainly," he said, leading her to the door. "Now come along -home, Mrs. Davis."</p> - -<p>She continued to protest, but he pulled her through the corridors and -down the steps to a waiting car. He nudged her into the front seat.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>They passed darkened buildings. She saw the neon sign atop the <i>Herald</i> -offices ahead. If no one knew she'd killed them, no one would awaken. -No one would live again. The world would end after all.</p> - -<p>She opened the door and jumped from the moving car. Stumbling, she ran -toward the <i>Herald</i> offices.</p> - -<p>She stumbled into the building and began seeking through its bright -corridors. Stopping to stare at each office door, she finally found the -one labeled "Editorial. Mr. Gray." She pushed into the office.</p> - -<p>The little man behind the desk wore horn-rim glasses and smoked a pipe -that was a copy of Lester's. He smiled paternally. "Yes, dear?"</p> - -<p>"I killed them! They're all dead!"</p> - -<p>Realizing excitement did nothing to make her words more believable, she -forced herself to be calm.</p> - -<p>Editor Gray wore his gray hair combed straight back, Lester-like. He -stood, putting one hand into his trouser pocket, as Lester always did.</p> - -<p>"Who did you kill?" he asked quietly. "Calm down, dear. Tell me who you -killed."</p> - -<p>"Lester and all the rest. You have to print it. I shot them—they're -dead. Print it in your paper."</p> - -<p>He crossed the room to his Wall. Bass and Kippie were rolling pie dough -together, one on either end of the rolling pin.</p> - -<p>"I'm afraid you're imagining these things, my dear." He sucked his -pipe, looking lovingly at Kippie. "I could love that child, but of -course Alice would be jealous."</p> - -<p>She backed away from him into the arms of the tweedy man, who had come -into the office.</p> - -<p>"I'm sorry to bother you, sir," he said. "This poor woman is suffering -from delusions. I was driving her home when she escaped me."</p> - -<p>"That's all right," Editor Gray said mildly. "Perhaps she needs -professional help. Have you considered that, my dear?"</p> - -<p>But Amanda was staring at Bass. She stared at his penetrating eyes, his -broad shoulders, at the curl of hair combed low over his forehead. The -curl was swirled left, not right.</p> - -<p>The tweedy man took her arm, guided her from the building and nudged -her into the car.</p> - -<p>Do they curl a dead actor's hair differently, she wondered. She had -killed them. Why weren't they dead?</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>When they reached her house, it was completely dark. Either Dell and -Kippie had gone to bed or the Wall had been replaced and was playing.</p> - -<p>"I'm sorry I had to bring you away so abruptly," the tweedy man said. -"We can't afford to have the press print unfavorable reports about the -force, you understand." He fingered his pipe. "Now, Mrs. Davis, get a -good night's sleep. Tomorrow you'll realize it was all a bad dream. You -wouldn't kill the stars."</p> - -<p>Woodenly she walked up the front walk. Hearing Bass's mellow voice from -the Wall room, she knew Kippie and Dell were up.</p> - -<p>She entered the room. Kippie sat curled on the Wall seat.</p> - -<p>Amanda stared at the handsome face on the Wall. Bass McDowall, Wall -idol. Why wasn't he dead?</p> - -<p>His curl was still curled wrong. She looked more closely at his face as -he leaned toward Kippie, gasping, "Sweetie-bug."</p> - -<p>There was a small scar beneath his left eye. The tiniest, most -insignificant scar, but it had never been there before.</p> - -<p>"Poor Bass, he looks so tired," the Kippie on the Wall seat said. "See -how his face looks thinner when he's tired? I wonder if she notices it."</p> - -<p>Dell said, "After all, Bass has worked hard today, Kippie."</p> - -<p>Bass's face was indeed thinner. Thinner face, small scar that hadn't -been there before, curl that curled wrong—what did it mean?</p> - -<p>Suddenly she realized the image on the Wall wasn't Bass. She corrected -herself. He was a different Bass. He wasn't the one she had shot, but -his almost identical double.</p> - -<p>She stared at her daughter, who looked more like Kippie each time she -assumed another of her characteristics or poses. There were hundreds -of young people wanting to be Bass or Kippie, hundreds of young men -combing their hair the way Bass did, smiling as he did, learning to use -their eyes as he did. And if the time should come when a new Bass was -needed, there he was, hundreds of him.</p> - -<p>She frowned. Undoubtedly they had several doubles waiting conveniently -nearby to perform if something should happen to one of the stars.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>She felt a choking in her throat. It would be as impossible to kill all -the Basses and Kippies as it would be to break every Wall in the world. -There was no way to get rid of them, no way to make people listen to -what was happening. No way to prevent humanity from watching itself to -extinction.</p> - -<p>As they grew older, she guessed, the actors would grow older too. -Gradually Bass would be thirty, then thirty-five, and Lester and the -others would age too. But no one would notice; everyone would be aging -at the same rate.</p> - -<p>But some day someone would notice. Some day all the Lesters would -die, and there would be no more Lester to smile at Alice and look -thoughtful. And people would look around and see that her daughter, -Kathryn, was the youngest person in the world.</p> - -<p>But by then even Kathryn would be past the child-bearing age.</p> - -<p>Stunned, she sat down beside Dell. He squeezed her hand. She looked up -at the Wall, into Bass's penetrating dark eyes. His eyes were so deep, -she thought. His hands were strong, and his face was intelligent. How -could she ever have hated him?</p> - -<p>"Where've you been, baby?" Dell asked.</p> - -<p>She shook her head irritably. "Be quiet," she said. "Can't you see he's -going to kiss her?"</p> - -<p>Perhaps she should change her name to Alice. Then they'd have Kippie, -Alice and Lester. All they needed was a Bass, and they would be almost -like a real family.</p> - -<p>It would be so easy to forget this way, looking deep into Bass's dark -eyes.</p> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Shatter the Wall, by Sydney Van Scyoc - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SHATTER THE WALL *** - -***** This file should be named 51576-h.htm or 51576-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/1/5/7/51576/ - -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: Shatter the Wall - -Author: Sydney Van Scyoc - -Release Date: March 27, 2016 [EBook #51576] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SHATTER THE WALL *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - SHATTER THE WALL - - By SYDNEY VAN SCYOC - - Illustrated by WEST - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Galaxy Magazine February 1962. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - - - - They were a charming family and everybody - loved them to death--especially Amanda! - - -There he stood, Bass McDowall, life-size on the Wall. She made herself -look at the hateful broad-shouldered image with the deliberately -penetrating black eyes. She made herself watch his boy-image bend over -Kippie's slender girl-image, made herself listen to his mellow voice -gasp, "Kippie, sweetie-bug." - -Savagely she thrust upward on the ebony lever. Bass McDowall, Wall -idol, and Kippie lurched and disappeared. Lights glowed from fixtures -recessed into the ceiling, illuminating the long, windowless Wall room. - -Kathryn, whose hair was a snug, dark Kippie-cap, leaped from the Wall -seat. "Don't turn it off now! Couldn't you even tell, Mother? He's -going to kiss her! Turn it back on this minute!" - -Amanda stationed herself before the lever, shaking her head. "Not until -I've spoken to you," she said. "Kathryn, I don't think you realize -yet what it means, but you're the youngest person, the very youngest, -living in this city." - -"Quit calling me that! Everyone has to call me Kippie." She cocked her -dark head, Kippie-like. The red mark caused by the constant prodding -of her index finger against her cheek glared. "Bass loves Kippie. He -called her sweetie-bug." - -"I refuse to call you Kippie." She folded her arms. "I don't want to -discuss your name again, Kathryn." - -"It will be Kippie." She squirmed into a Kippie-like position. "Soon as -I'm twenty-one, I'll change it. You wait!" - -"Perhaps you will, Kathryn. But I'll never call you Kippie." - -"Oh, quit being silly and turn it on. He might kiss her again." She -focused her blue eyes upon the Wall. "Turn it on." - -"Kathryn, I want to talk to you, and I intend to do so without Bass -McDowall staring over my shoulder." She sat down beside her daughter. -"Now, Kathryn, you're nineteen years old, and you're certainly -attractive by any--" - -"I don't have dimples like Kippie does." Remembering, she poked her -finger back into her cheek. - -"I'm not talking about Kippie." She stared at the finger sunk into her -daughter's cheek, wondering how many times she had explained that it -wouldn't cause a dimple. "I want you to get married, Kathryn." - - * * * * * - -"I've told you a million times, I won't. You're always after me!" she -wailed. "Bass won't ever marry anyone, not even Kippie, and she's got -dimples. Bass says--" - -"Bass McDowall is not a real person. He's only an actor." - -"He's the realest thing in the world. But he won't marry me, so you'd -better forget it." She stepped to turn the Wall on again. - -Instantly the ash tray was in Amanda's hand, the massive glass tray -Dell had given her. She hurled it at the Wall, which shattered with a -brittle explosive splintering. - -Kathryn jumped back, wailing. "I hate you!" Frantically she manipulated -the lever and twisted the ebony dials. "Bass, come back. Bass!" - -Amanda patted the Wall seat. "Sit down, Kathryn." - -Finally the girl sat down, sullenly rubbing her eyes with her fists. - -"Kathryn, have you noticed that we never see infants on the Wall? We -never see small children, either, because, Kathryn, you're the youngest -person in this city. The week after you were born, the city hospital's -obstetrical ward closed permanently." - -Kathryn sobbed convulsively. "Who needs babies? I want Bass!" - -"The human race needs babies! Kathryn, you sit so complacently in front -of your Wall and pretend there isn't a world! There won't be unless you -wake up." - -"Don't be silly!" - -"I'm not. Kathryn, you may be the youngest person in the world, for -all I know. Forty or fifty years from now this planet will be cluttered -with blank Walls. There'll be no one to watch them." - -"Well, there's nothing I can do about it. I'm not different, like you." - -"Kathryn, marry. Have children. Persuade your friends at the office--" - -She laughed shrilly, rocking back against the Wall seat. "Friends! They -hate me, every one of them, and I hate them. Even if Bass did marry me, -they'd only take him away." - -Amanda clutched her fists. "I don't want you to marry Bass. You must -find some nice boy your own age." - -"Oh, Mother! You want me to marry some stupid, ugly boy! You can't make -me!" - -"Kathryn, he needn't be dull. There are hundreds of boys, each -interesting in--" - - * * * * * - -Hearing a sound, she looked up to see Dell, thin and red-headed, -standing in the doorway staring at the shattered Wall. - -Kathryn jumped up. "Mother broke it. She threw that big green ash tray -and broke it all to pieces." - -Dell looked questioningly at Amanda. "Honey, why'd you do that?" - -"She's jealous of Bass!" - -"Now isn't Bass pretty young for you, honey?" He stooped to remove the -ash tray from inside the shattered Wall. "Now, how can I watch Alice -this evening? She promised me a special dance in that red dress she was -showing me last night." - -"Showing you?" She sprang up. "She showed it to every man in the -country, Dell." - -He frowned. "Well, I'll call Replacements. They'll have a new Wall in -before Alice comes." - -"And I'll smash it too. I'll smash every replacement you can buy!" - -"Now, Amanda." He regarded her mildly. "You're not jealous of Alice! -Honey, if you'd watch Lester, you wouldn't care about Alice and me." - -She took the intact ash tray from him. "I'm not jealous of Alice, and I -haven't been for twenty years. But Dell, do you realize Kathryn was the -last child born in this city?" - -The girl's voice was harsh. "She wants me to marry some stupid, ugly -boy. And I won't do it! I love Bass." - -Dell's pale eyes were rebuking. "Amanda, how can you expect Kippie to -do that?" - -She stepped back. "Kippie?" she said harshly. "Dell, that girl standing -there is Kathryn, our daughter--not Kippie." - -"Don't let such little things upset you, baby. I'll go call -Replacements, and we'll all sit down together when Alice and Lester -come." He turned. - -She seized his arm. "I will _not_ watch Lester," she said. "I will not -sit and stare at that big, gray-haired ape and pretend I'm in love with -him." - -Dell frowned. "You don't really think he looks like an ape, do you, -baby? I was--well, thinking of changing my name to Lester." - -Kathryn leaped to hug him. "Oh Daddy! It'll be so wonderful. Lester, -Lester, Lester! If we had an Alice and a Bass, we'd be almost like a -real family." - -She stared at them. "I'd hoped to put you in a favorable frame of mind -for this, Kathryn," she said. "You'll remember that three years ago the -Watsons, next door, had Wall failure and couldn't get service until -morning. I invited them to watch our Wall." - -Dell nodded. "Haven't seen them since, now that I think of it." - -"You haven't. But tonight Mrs. Watson is lending me her son Gerald. -He's coming at seven." - -"Mother!" Kathryn cried, releasing Dell. "How terrible! Gerald! What a -stupid name. I love Bass, and you can't take him away from me." - -"That wasn't very nice, was it, Amanda?" - -"It's done," she said. "He's twenty-two, and I want you to talk to him, -Kathryn." - -Kathryn scowled. - -"And I've arranged for you to go over to their house to watch Alice, if -you must, Dell." - -Dell forgot he was indignant. "Well, Kippie, maybe this one time you -can do as your mother wants," he said. "Surely Bass won't mind if you -miss him this once. He's an understanding sort of chap." - -Kathryn thought for a moment, scowling. "All right, I'll do it--if -you'll call me Kippie, Mother." - -Amanda studied her. "All right--Kippie," she said finally. - - * * * * * - -After agreeing reluctantly not to call Replacements until Gerald had -come and gone, Kippie wriggled into a Kippie-like position and poked -her finger deep into her cheek again. - -Gerald, who arrived promptly at seven, wore his light hair combed -into a Bass-like curl low over his forehead. He speared Amanda with a -penetrating stare, making her shiver as she led him to the Wall room. - -Kippie sulked angrily on the Wall seat. - -Amanda introduced them, and they looked at each other, their glances -revealing no interest. - -"You're trying to comb your hair like Bass," Kippie accused. - -Gerald grinned. "Sure thing, sweetie-bug." - -"Then you should dye it. It's the wrong color. Bass doesn't have blond -hair. And why is your name still Gerald? Don't you ever want to be -Bass?" - -Gerald looked slapped. "I tried. Honest, I really did. But you know -there's a limit, and the man at the bureau said there were too many -Basses already." His face brightened. "But my parents call me Bass all -the time." - -"Oh." - -Gerald shuffled his feet. Gingerly he sat down. - -"Uh, did you see them last night?" he asked. - -"Of course. I always see them, except when my mother does something -stupid." - -Quickly Amanda excused herself and went to the Food Center. She leaned -against the counter, trying to overhear their conversation. - -They spoke in broken murmurs momentarily, then were silent. - -Kippie cleared her throat irritably. - -"Uh, nice weather," Gerald said loudly. - -"I haven't been out." - -They were silent again. She tried to make her fingers stop picking at a -spot on the counter surface. - -Suddenly Kippie emerged hurriedly from the Wall room, looking put upon. - -"Where are you going?" Amanda demanded. - -"He can't talk like Bass, even when he tries. And his hair is the wrong -color, and he has blue eyes." - -"But Kathryn--Kippie, those are external characteristics! You can't -judge a person by the color of his hair and his eyes. You must get -acquainted with him." - -"I won't do it. I don't love him. I love Bass!" She cocked her head, -Kippie-like. "And besides, he loves the real Kippie. And I'll never -have dimples. I'm going to call Replacements." - -Amanda seized her arm. "Call them, and I'll break the new Wall too. -I'll break every Wall you bring into this house. Don't you understand -what's happening?" - -"Quit being stupid." - -"I'll break every Wall you have installed." - -"And every time you do it, I'll order a new one." She broke loose and -ran to the communicator. - - * * * * * - -She had to do something. She wondered briefly, must I do something? It -could only be the survival instinct driving her. Perhaps, she thought -wryly, she was the only person who still possessed that particular -instinct. - -She could never break every Wall in the world, no matter how she tried. - -She picked up the magazine Kippie had thrown down that morning. Running -her finger over the cover, she poked it through Bass's penetrating eye. -She poked Kippie in the nose. - -She flipped the magazine open and went through it, mutilating the -pages. "There's a hole in your head, Lester.... - -"One less eye for you, Alice.... - -"Poor little Kippie, I tore your chin. Right through the dimple. Will -Bass love you now, Kippie? - -"Goodby, Bass." She crumpled him into a ball and threw him at the sink. - -On the next page was a print of a restaurant. She read the caption. - -"For two hours each evening, while filmed sequences are shown to the -home audience, the stars retire to Antola's for sandwiches, drinks and -shop talk." - -She tried to stop her thoughts as they went to the sleeping alcove and -the old gun in the top shelf of the built-ins. Dell hadn't bothered to -unload it since he'd cleaned it last. - -She dropped the magazine and went to the top shelf of the built-ins. -The gun was there. - - * * * * * - -It didn't take her long to drive downtown. There were no other cars on -the streets, and the current to the traffic lights had been cut three -years before. She passed only a prowling squad car, and the two police -stared at her curiously. - -She parked a block from Antola's. Leaving the car, she slung her purse, -heavy with the gun, over her arm. Briskly she walked down the deserted -street. - -Antola, standing behind the bar, was tall, thin and red-headed. He -stared at her incredulously, wiping his hands repeatedly on his long -white apron. - -She went past the bar to a small table. - -Antola continued to wipe his hands, as if they would not quite come -dry. "You want something?" - -"Yes, bring me a bacon and tomato sandwich and milk." - -"Don't have bacon and tomato. Kippie, she likes tuna. Bass hamburg. -Lester and Alice, they both take grilled cheese. Which do you want?" - -"Bring me tuna and milk." - -"Kippie, she says milk don't go with tuna. Makes a big blob inside." - -"I said tuna and milk." - -"Okay, if you want a blob inside. Kippie don't." He ambled away. - -Not knowing how long she might have to wait, she nibbled at her -sandwich. - -Soon she heard voices approaching the restaurant. She snaked her hand -toward the purse, opened it and clutched the gun. - -Alice entered first, her hair a disciplined halo of red-gold, her eyes -vivid green. She was quarreling with Bass, who cheerfully ignored her, -his penetrating eyes staring greedily at the bottles behind the bar. - -Small, precocious-seeming Kippie followed, her dark hair ruffled by the -wind. She stared lovingly up into Lester's eyes. - -When the door had closed behind them, Amanda stood and raised the gun. -They hadn't noticed her, they'd been too anxious to mount the bar -stools. Ducks in a shooting gallery, she thought. - -Alice was sitting nearer her, combing her hair with her fingers. -Holding the gun out before her with both hands, Amanda aimed it at -Alice's hair. She pulled the trigger. - -At the sound, they all tried to duck, except Alice, who folded quietly -to the floor. Amanda aimed again, and this time Lester crumpled. - -Ducks in a shooting gallery, she thought. See if you can make that big -drake, Bass, fall off his stool. - -Bass fell. Kippie screamed, banishing her dimples, and fell beside him. - -Antola had disappeared. It didn't matter. She returned the gun to her -purse. She hadn't decided what to do next. Suddenly feeling hungry, she -sat down to finish her sandwich. - - * * * * * - -When she was through, she rose, slung her purse over her arm again and -stepped past the four bodies. They hardly seemed real, lying in their -separate pools of crimson. - -The two policemen came in, staring at her again. - -"Catch her!" Antola cried from beneath the bar. "She done it! She -killed them all! Poor little Kippie!" - -The florid policeman locked his hand about her wrist, while the other -cried for Antola to come out. - -Her wrists were quickly handcuffed, and the florid policeman escorted -her to the police car. He shoved her into the back seat. - -She didn't move, didn't think. The world seemed frozen. - -It didn't begin to thaw again until the second squad car and the -ambulances arrived. They came slowly, without sirens or flashing -lights. She wondered why they came so casually. - -The florid policeman returned to the car. "All dead," he said. "Even -poor little Kippie." - -Silently they drove the deserted streets. She looked out at the -buildings, knowing the people inside them soon would be shocked by -the news of the stars' deaths. - -When they reached police headquarters, she had to run to keep up with -the florid policeman as he pulled her up the stone steps. They walked -endless corridors, gray and gloomy, until they emerged into a small, -dim room. - -A man in a tweed coat, who smoked a pipe and spoke suavely, stepped -from the group of men in street clothes. - -"Did you kill them?" he asked. "Don't be afraid to tell me. I only want -to know if you killed them." - -She nodded. "Certainly I did it." - -He took her purse from the uniformed policeman and removed the gun. -"But why, tell me. Were you jealous of Alice, perhaps?" His pipe jumped -as he smiled confidentially. - -"Certainly not!" she said. "I did it to save the human race from -suicide." - -The men smiled, amused. - -"Lock her up until we decide," the man in tweed instructed the florid -policeman. He gave her the purse, minus the gun. - - * * * * * - -A bony, disapproving matron led her to a cell and locked her into it. -Amanda requested pencil and paper. - -The matron frowned but brought them. Placing the paper against her -purse, she began composing a statement to the press, making clear her -motives. - -The filmed sequence still played on the small Wall opposite her cell. -She glanced up occasionally at the faces and smiled. - -She had almost completed the statement when the filmed sequence ended. -The small, oily emcee appeared upon the Wall. "Ladies and gentlemen," -he said. - -She waited expectantly for the death announcement. - -"Our stars!" He flung out his arms dramatically. - -And the four stars pranced, smiling, across the Wall. Kippie, Bass, -Alice and Lester. - -Amanda jumped to the bars. It was not a film. - -"Matron!" she screamed. "Matron!" Frantically she stared at the four -actors whom she had murdered and who were alive and smiling. - -"Matron!" - -The bony matron unlocked the cell. "Come with me." - -"Matron, I killed them. I shot them!" - -"Come with me." - -The matron led her into a small, dim room. - -The tweedy man smiled confidentially around his pipe. "Are you ready to -go home, Mrs. Davis?" - -"But I murdered them. You have to keep me here!" She tried to catch -the lapels of his suit. - -He smiled again. "Who did you murder, Mrs. Davis?" - -"All of them. You know I did it. I shot them, and they were all dead. -He said so--the policeman." Her hands shook. - -"Look over there." He pointed to a small Wall. "They're alive and -performing, aren't they, Mrs. Davis?" - -She looked at the Wall. Alice and Lester were planting a small rose -bush together. - -"You see, occasionally women do suffer from delusions like yours," he -said. "But now that you've recovered, I'll drive you home. After a -quiet night you'll forget all this." - -"They aren't delusions," she insisted. "I did it, with my husband's -gun. I waited until they closed the door, then I aimed--I know I did -it." - -"Yes, certainly," he said, leading her to the door. "Now come along -home, Mrs. Davis." - -She continued to protest, but he pulled her through the corridors and -down the steps to a waiting car. He nudged her into the front seat. - - * * * * * - -They passed darkened buildings. She saw the neon sign atop the _Herald_ -offices ahead. If no one knew she'd killed them, no one would awaken. -No one would live again. The world would end after all. - -She opened the door and jumped from the moving car. Stumbling, she ran -toward the _Herald_ offices. - -She stumbled into the building and began seeking through its bright -corridors. Stopping to stare at each office door, she finally found the -one labeled "Editorial. Mr. Gray." She pushed into the office. - -The little man behind the desk wore horn-rim glasses and smoked a pipe -that was a copy of Lester's. He smiled paternally. "Yes, dear?" - -"I killed them! They're all dead!" - -Realizing excitement did nothing to make her words more believable, she -forced herself to be calm. - -Editor Gray wore his gray hair combed straight back, Lester-like. He -stood, putting one hand into his trouser pocket, as Lester always did. - -"Who did you kill?" he asked quietly. "Calm down, dear. Tell me who you -killed." - -"Lester and all the rest. You have to print it. I shot them--they're -dead. Print it in your paper." - -He crossed the room to his Wall. Bass and Kippie were rolling pie dough -together, one on either end of the rolling pin. - -"I'm afraid you're imagining these things, my dear." He sucked his -pipe, looking lovingly at Kippie. "I could love that child, but of -course Alice would be jealous." - -She backed away from him into the arms of the tweedy man, who had come -into the office. - -"I'm sorry to bother you, sir," he said. "This poor woman is suffering -from delusions. I was driving her home when she escaped me." - -"That's all right," Editor Gray said mildly. "Perhaps she needs -professional help. Have you considered that, my dear?" - -But Amanda was staring at Bass. She stared at his penetrating eyes, his -broad shoulders, at the curl of hair combed low over his forehead. The -curl was swirled left, not right. - -The tweedy man took her arm, guided her from the building and nudged -her into the car. - -Do they curl a dead actor's hair differently, she wondered. She had -killed them. Why weren't they dead? - - * * * * * - -When they reached her house, it was completely dark. Either Dell and -Kippie had gone to bed or the Wall had been replaced and was playing. - -"I'm sorry I had to bring you away so abruptly," the tweedy man said. -"We can't afford to have the press print unfavorable reports about the -force, you understand." He fingered his pipe. "Now, Mrs. Davis, get a -good night's sleep. Tomorrow you'll realize it was all a bad dream. You -wouldn't kill the stars." - -Woodenly she walked up the front walk. Hearing Bass's mellow voice from -the Wall room, she knew Kippie and Dell were up. - -She entered the room. Kippie sat curled on the Wall seat. - -Amanda stared at the handsome face on the Wall. Bass McDowall, Wall -idol. Why wasn't he dead? - -His curl was still curled wrong. She looked more closely at his face as -he leaned toward Kippie, gasping, "Sweetie-bug." - -There was a small scar beneath his left eye. The tiniest, most -insignificant scar, but it had never been there before. - -"Poor Bass, he looks so tired," the Kippie on the Wall seat said. "See -how his face looks thinner when he's tired? I wonder if she notices it." - -Dell said, "After all, Bass has worked hard today, Kippie." - -Bass's face was indeed thinner. Thinner face, small scar that hadn't -been there before, curl that curled wrong--what did it mean? - -Suddenly she realized the image on the Wall wasn't Bass. She corrected -herself. He was a different Bass. He wasn't the one she had shot, but -his almost identical double. - -She stared at her daughter, who looked more like Kippie each time she -assumed another of her characteristics or poses. There were hundreds -of young people wanting to be Bass or Kippie, hundreds of young men -combing their hair the way Bass did, smiling as he did, learning to use -their eyes as he did. And if the time should come when a new Bass was -needed, there he was, hundreds of him. - -She frowned. Undoubtedly they had several doubles waiting conveniently -nearby to perform if something should happen to one of the stars. - - * * * * * - -She felt a choking in her throat. It would be as impossible to kill all -the Basses and Kippies as it would be to break every Wall in the world. -There was no way to get rid of them, no way to make people listen to -what was happening. No way to prevent humanity from watching itself to -extinction. - -As they grew older, she guessed, the actors would grow older too. -Gradually Bass would be thirty, then thirty-five, and Lester and the -others would age too. But no one would notice; everyone would be aging -at the same rate. - -But some day someone would notice. Some day all the Lesters would -die, and there would be no more Lester to smile at Alice and look -thoughtful. And people would look around and see that her daughter, -Kathryn, was the youngest person in the world. - -But by then even Kathryn would be past the child-bearing age. - -Stunned, she sat down beside Dell. He squeezed her hand. She looked up -at the Wall, into Bass's penetrating dark eyes. His eyes were so deep, -she thought. His hands were strong, and his face was intelligent. How -could she ever have hated him? - -"Where've you been, baby?" Dell asked. - -She shook her head irritably. "Be quiet," she said. "Can't you see he's -going to kiss her?" - -Perhaps she should change her name to Alice. Then they'd have Kippie, -Alice and Lester. 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