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Lafferty + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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: All The People + +Author: R.A. Lafferty + +Release Date: March 30, 2016 [EBook #51603] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ALL THE PEOPLE *** + + + + +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="391" height="500" alt=""/> +</div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<div class="titlepage"> +<h1>ALL THE PEOPLE</h1> + +<p>By R. A. LAFFERTY</p> + +<p>Illustrated by GAUGHAN</p> + +<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> +Galaxy Magazine April 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" /> + +<p class="ph3"><i>Tin Tony Trotz had only one job—to<br /> +watch out for something a little<br /> +odd—in a universe that was insane!</i></p> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p>Anthony Trotz went first to the politician, Mike Delado. "How many +people do you know, Mr. Delado?"</p> + +<p>"Why the question?"</p> + +<p>"I am wondering just what amount of detail the mind can hold."</p> + +<p>"To a degree I know many. Ten thousand well, thirty thousand by name, +probably a hundred thousand by face and to shake hands with."</p> + +<p>"And what is the limit?" Anthony inquired.</p> + +<p>"Possibly I am the limit." The politician smiled frostily. "The only +limit is time, speed of cognizance and retention. I am told that the +latter lessens with age. I am seventy, and it has not done so with me. +Whom I have known I do not forget."</p> + +<p>"And with special training could one go beyond you?"</p> + +<p>"I doubt if one could—much. For my own training has been quite +special. Nobody has been so entirely with the people as I have. I've +taken five memory courses in my time, but the tricks of all of them I +had already come to on my own. I am a great believer in the commonality +of mankind and of near equal inherent ability. Yet there are some, say +the one man in fifty, who in degree if not in kind do exceed their +fellows in scope and awareness and vitality. I am that one man in +fifty, and knowing people is my specialty."</p> + +<p>"Could a man who specialized still more—and to the exclusion of other +things—know a hundred thousand men well."</p> + +<p>"It is possible. Dimly."</p> + +<p>"A quarter of a million?"</p> + +<p>"I think not. He might learn that many faces and names, but he would +not know the men."</p> + +<p>Anthony went next to the philosopher, Gabriel Mindel.</p> + +<p>"Mr. Mindel, how many people do you know?"</p> + +<p>"How know? <i>Per se?</i> <i>A se?</i> Or <i>In Se</i>? <i>Per suam essentiam</i>, perhaps? +Or do you mean <i>Ab alio</i>? Or to know as <i>Hoc aliquid</i>? There is a +fine difference there. Or do you possibly mean to know in <i>Substantia +prima</i>, or in the sense of comprehensive <i>noumena</i>?"</p> + +<p>"Somewhere between the latter two. How many persons do you know by +name, face, and with a degree of intimacy?"</p> + +<p>"I have learned over the years the names of some of my colleagues, +possibly a dozen of them. I am now sound on my wife's name, and +I seldom stumble over the names of my offspring—never more than +momentarily. But you may have come to the wrong man for—whatever you +have come for. I am notoriously poor at names, faces, and persons. I +have even been described (<i>vox faucibus haesit</i>) as absent-minded."</p> + +<p>"Yes, you do have the reputation. But perhaps I have not come to the +wrong man in seeking the theory of the thing. What is it that limits +the comprehensive capacity of the mind of man? What will it hold? What +restricts?"</p> + +<p>"The body."</p> + +<p>"How is that?"</p> + +<p>"The brain, I should say, the material tie. The mind is limited by the +brain. It is skull-bound. It can accumulate no more than its cranial +capacity, though not one tenth of that is ordinarily used. An unbodied +mind would (in esoteric theory) be unlimited."</p> + +<p>"And how in practical theory?"</p> + +<p>"If it is practical, a <i>pragma</i>, it is a thing and not a theory."</p> + +<p>"Then we can have no experience with the unbodied mind, or the +possibility of it?"</p> + +<p>"We have not discovered any area of contact, but we may entertain +the possibility of it. There is no paradox there. One may rationally +consider the irrational."</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p>Anthony went next to see the priest.</p> + +<p>"How many people do you know?"</p> + +<p>"I know all of them."</p> + +<p>"That has to be doubted," said Anthony after a moment.</p> + +<p>"I've had twenty different stations. And when you hear five thousand +confessions a year for forty years, you by no means know all about +people, but you do know all people."</p> + +<p>"I do not mean types. I mean persons."</p> + +<p>"Oh, I know a dozen or so well, a few thousands somewhat less."</p> + +<p>"Would it be possible to know a hundred thousand people, a half +million?"</p> + +<p>"A mentalist might know that many to recognize; I don't know the limit. +But darkened man has a limit set on everything."</p> + +<p>"Could a somehow emancipated man know more?"</p> + +<p>"The only emancipated man is the corporally dead man. And the dead man, +if he attains the beatific vision, knows all other persons who have +ever been since time began."</p> + +<p>"All the billions?"</p> + +<p>"All."</p> + +<p>"With the same brain?"</p> + +<p>"No. But with the same mind."</p> + +<p>"Then wouldn't even a believer have to admit that the mind which we +have now is only a token mind? Would not any connection it would have +with a completely comprehensive mind be very tenuous? Would we really +be the same person if so changed? It is like saying a bucket would hold +the ocean if it were fulfilled, which only means filled full. How could +it be the same mind?"</p> + +<p>"I don't know."</p> + +<p>Anthony went to see a psychologist.</p> + +<p>"How many people do you know, Dr. Shirm?"</p> + +<p>"I could be crabby and say that I know as many as I want to; but +it wouldn't be the truth. I rather like people, which is odd in my +profession. What is it that you really want to know?"</p> + +<p>"How many people can one man know?"</p> + +<p>"It doesn't matter very much. People mostly overestimate the number of +their acquaintances. What is it that you are trying to ask me?"</p> + +<p>"Could one man know everyone?"</p> + +<p>"Naturally not. But unnaturally he might seem to. There is a delusion +to this effect accompanied by an euphoria, and it is called—"</p> + +<p>"I don't want to know what it is called. Why do specialists use Latin +and Greek?"</p> + +<p>"One part hokum, and two parts need; there simply not being enough +letters in the alphabet of exposition without them. It is as difficult +to name concepts as children, and we search our brains as a new mother +does. It will not do to call two children or two concepts by one name."</p> + +<p>"Thank you. I doubt that this is delusion, and it is not accompanied by +euphoria."</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p>Anthony had a reason for questioning the four men since (as a new thing +that had come to him) he knew everybody. He knew everyone in Salt Lake +City, where he had never been. He knew everybody in Jebel Shah where +the town is a little amphitheater around the harbor, and in Batangas +and Weihai. He knew the loungers around the end of the Galata bridge in +Istambul, and the porters in Kuala Lumpur. He knew the tobacco traders +in Plovdiv, and the cork-cutters of Portugal. He knew the dock workers +in Djibouti, and the glove-makers in Prague. He knew the vegetable +farmers around El Centro, and the muskrat trappers of Barrataria Bay. +He knew the three billion people of the world by name and face, and +with a fair degree of intimacy.</p> + +<p>"Yet I'm not a very intelligent man. I've been called a bungler. And +they've had to reassign me three different times at the filter center. +I've seen only a few thousands of these billions of people, and it +seems unusual that I should know them all. It may be a delusion as +Dr. Shirm says, but it is a heavily detailed delusion, and it is not +accompanied by euphoria. I feel like green hell just thinking of it."</p> + +<p>He knew the cattle traders in Letterkenny Donegal; he knew the cane +cutters of Oriente, and the tree climbers of Milne Bay. He knew the +people who died every minute, and those who were born.</p> + +<p>"There is no way out of it. I know everybody in the world. It is +impossible, but it is so. And to what purpose? There aren't a handful +of them I could borrow a dollar from, and I haven't a real friend in +the lot. I don't know whether it came to me suddenly, but I realized it +suddenly. My father was a junk dealer in Wichita, and my education is +spotty. I am maladjusted, introverted, incompetent and unhappy, and I +also have weak kidneys. Why would a power like this come to a man like +me?"</p> + +<p>The children in the streets hooted at him. Anthony had always had +a healthy hatred for children and dogs, those twin harassers of the +unfortunate and the maladjusted. Both run in packs, and both are +cowardly attackers. And if either of them spots a weakness he will +never let it go. That his father had been a junk dealer was not reason +to hoot at him. But how did the children even know about that? Did they +possess some fraction of the power that had come to him lately?</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p>But he had strolled about the town for too long. He should have been at +work at the filter center. Often they were impatient with him when he +wandered off from his work, and Colonel Peter Cooper was waiting for +him when he came in now.</p> + +<p>"Where have you been, Anthony?"</p> + +<p>"Walking. I talked to four men. I mentioned no subject in the province +of the filter center."</p> + +<p>"Every subject is in the province of the filter center. And you know +that our work here is confidential."</p> + +<p>"Yes, sir, but I do not understand the import of my work here. I would +not be able to give out information that I do not have."</p> + +<p>"A popular misconception. There are others who might understand the +import of it, and be able to reconstruct it from what you tell them. +How do you feel?"</p> + +<p>"Nervous, unwell, my tongue is furred, my kidneys—"</p> + +<p>"Ah yes, there will be someone here this afternoon to fix your kidneys. +I had not forgotten. Is there anything that you want to tell me?"</p> + +<p>"No, sir."</p> + +<p>Colonel Cooper had the habit of asking that of his workers in the +manner of a mother asking a child if he wants to go to the bathroom. +There was something embarrassing in his intonation.</p> + +<p>Well, he did want to tell him something, but he didn't know how to +phrase it. He wanted to tell the colonel that he had newly acquired +the power of knowing everyone in the world, that he was worried how +he could hold so much in his head that was not noteworthy for its +capacity. But he feared ridicule more than he feared anything else and +he was a tangle of fears.</p> + +<p>But he thought he would try it a little bit on his co-workers.</p> + +<p>"I know a man named Walter Walloroy in Galveston," he said to Adrian. +"He drinks beer at the Gizmo bar, and is retired."</p> + +<p>"What is the superlative of <i>so what</i>?"</p> + +<p>"But I have never been there," said Anthony.</p> + +<p>"And I have never been in Kalamazoo."</p> + +<p>"I know a girl in Kalamazoo. Her name is Greta Harandash. She is home +today with a cold. She is prone to colds."</p> + +<p>But Adrian was a creature both uninterested and uninteresting. It is +very hard to confide in one who is uninterested.</p> + +<p>"Well, I will live with it a little while," said Anthony. "Or I may +have to go to a doctor and see if he can give me something to make all +these people go away. But if he thinks my story is a queer one, he may +report me back to the center, and I might be reclassified again. It +makes me nervous to be reclassified."</p> + +<p>So he lived with it a while, the rest of the day and the night. He +should have felt better. A man had come that afternoon and fixed his +kidneys; but there was nobody to fix his nervousness and apprehensions. +And his skittishness was increased when the children hooted at him as +he walked in the morning. That hated epithet! But how could they know +that his father had been a dealer in used metals in a town far away?</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p>He had to confide in someone.</p> + +<p>He spoke to Wellington who also worked in his room. "I know a girl in +Beirut who is just going to bed. It is evening there now, you know."</p> + +<p>"That so? Why don't they get their time straightened out? I met a girl +last night that's cute as a correlator key, and kind of shaped like +one. She doesn't know yet that I work in the center and am a restricted +person. I'm not going to tell her. Let her find out for herself."</p> + +<p>It was no good trying to tell things to Wellington. Wellington never +listened. And then Anthony got a summons to Colonel Peter Cooper, which +always increased his apprehension.</p> + +<p>"Anthony," said the colonel, "I want you to tell me if you discern +anything unusual. That is really your job, to report anything unusual. +The other, the paper shuffling, is just something to keep your idle +hands busy. Now tell me clearly if anything unusual has come to your +notice."</p> + +<p>"Sir, it has." And then he blurted it all out. "I know everybody! I +know everybody in the world. I know them all in their billions, every +person. It has me worried sick."</p> + +<p>"Yes, yes, Anthony. But tell me, have you noticed anything <i>odd</i>? It is +your duty to tell me if you have."</p> + +<p>"But I have just told you! In some manner I know every person in +the world. I know the people in Transvaal, I know the people in +Guatemala. I know <i>everybody</i>."</p> + +<p>"Yes, Anthony, we realize that. And it may take a little getting used +to. But that isn't what I mean. Have you (besides that thing that seems +out of the way to you) noticed anything unusual, anything that seems +out of place, a little bit wrong?"</p> + +<p>"Ah—besides that and your reaction to it, no, sir. Nothing else odd. +I might ask, though, how odd can a thing get? But other than that—no, +sir."</p> + +<p>"Good, Anthony. Now remember, if you sense anything odd about anything +at all, come and tell me. No matter how trivial it is, if you feel that +something is just a little bit out of place, then report it at once. Do +you understand that?"</p> + +<p>"Yes, sir."</p> + +<p>But he couldn't help wondering what it might be that the colonel would +consider a little bit odd.</p> + +<p>Anthony left the center and walked. He shouldn't have. He knew that +they became impatient with him when he wandered off from his work.</p> + +<p>"But I have to think. I have all the people in the world in my brain, +and still I am not able to think. This power should have come to +someone able to take advantage of it."</p> + +<p>He went into the Plugged Nickel Bar, but the man on duty knew him for +a restricted person from the filter center, and would not serve him.</p> + +<p>He wandered disconsolately about the city. "I know the people in Omaha +and those in Omsk. What queer names have the towns of the earth! I know +everyone in the world, and when anyone is born or dies. And Colonel +Cooper did not find it unusual. Yet I am to be on the lookout for +things unusual. The question rises, would I know an odd thing if I met +it?"</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p>And then it was that something just a little bit unusual did happen, +something not quite right. A small thing. But the colonel had told him +to report anything about anything, no matter how insignificant, that +struck him as a little queer.</p> + +<p>It was just that with all the people in his head, and the arrivals and +departures, there was a small group that was not of the pattern.</p> + +<p>Every minute hundreds left by death and arrived by birth. And now there +was a small group, seven persons; they arrived into the world, but they +were not born into the world.</p> + +<p>So Anthony went to tell Colonel Cooper that something had occurred to +his mind that was a little bit odd.</p> + +<p>But damn-the-dander-headed-two-and-four-legged-devils, there were the +kids and the dogs in the street again, yipping and hooting and chanting:</p> + +<p>"Tony the tin man. Tony the tin man."</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/illus.jpg" width="327" height="500" alt=""/> +</div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p>He longed for the day when he would see them fall like leaves out of +his mind, and death take them.</p> + +<p>"Tony the tin man. Tony the tin man."</p> + +<p>How had they known that his father was a used metal dealer?</p> + +<p>Colonel Peter Cooper was waiting for him.</p> + +<p>"You surely took your time, Anthony. The reaction was registered, but +it would take us hours to pin-point its source without your help. Now +then, explain as calmly as you can what you have felt or experienced. +Or, more to the point, where are they?"</p> + +<p>"No. You will have to answer me certain questions first."</p> + +<p>"I haven't the time to waste, Anthony. Tell me at once what it is and +where."</p> + +<p>"No. There is no other way. You have to bargain with me."</p> + +<p>"One does not bargain with restricted persons."</p> + +<p>"Well, I will bargain till I find out just what it means that I am a +restricted person."</p> + +<p>"You really don't know? Well, we haven't time to fix that stubborn +streak in you. Quickly, just what is it that you have to know?"</p> + +<p>"I have to know what a restricted person is. I have to know why the +children hoot 'Tony the tin man' at me. How can they know that my +father was a junk dealer?"</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p>"You had no father. We give to each of you a sufficient store of +memories and a background of a distant town. That happened to be yours, +but there is no connection here. The children call you Tony the Tin Man +because (like all really cruel creatures) they have an instinct for the +truth that can hurt; and they will never forget it."</p> + +<p>"Then I am a tin man?"</p> + +<p>"Well, no. Actually only seventeen percent metal. And less than a +third of one percent tin. You are compounded of animal, vegetable, and +mineral fiber, and there was much effort given to your manufacture and +programming. Yet the taunt of the children is essentially true."</p> + +<p>"Then, if I am only Tony the Tin Man, how can I know all the people in +the world in my mind?"</p> + +<p>"You have no mind."</p> + +<p>"In my brain then. How can all that be in one small brain?"</p> + +<p>"Because your brain is not in your head, and it is not small. Come, I +may as well show it to you; I've told you enough that it won't matter +if you know a little more. There are few who are taken on personally +conducted sight-seeing tours of their own brains. You should be +grateful.</p> + +<p>"Gratitude seems a little tardy."</p> + +<p>They went into the barred area, down into the bowels of the main +building of the center. And they looked at the brain of Anthony Trotz, +a restricted person in its special meaning.</p> + +<p>"It is the largest in the world," said Colonel Cooper.</p> + +<p>"How large?"</p> + +<p>"A little over twelve hundred cubic meters."</p> + +<p>"What a brain! And it is mine?"</p> + +<p>"You are an adjunct to it, a runner for it, an appendage, inasmuch as +you are anything at all."</p> + +<p>"Colonel Cooper, how long have I been alive?"</p> + +<p>"You are not."</p> + +<p>"How long have I been as I am now?"</p> + +<p>"It is three days since you were last reassigned, since you were +assigned to this. At that time your nervousness and apprehensions +were introduced. An apprehensive unit will be more inclined to notice +details just a little out of the ordinary."</p> + +<p>"And what is my purpose?"</p> + +<p>They were walking now back to the office work area, and Anthony had a +sad feeling at leaving his brain behind him.</p> + +<p>"This is a filter center, and your purpose is to serve as a filter, +of a sort. Every person has a slight aura around him. It is a +characteristic of his, and is part of his personality and purpose. +And it can be detected, electrically, magnetically, even visually +under special conditions. The accumulator at which we were looking +(your brain) is designed to maintain contact with all the auras in the +world, and to keep a running and complete data on them all. It contains +a multiplicity of circuits for each of its three billion and some +subjects. However, as aid to its operation, it was necessary to assign +several artificial consciousnesses to it. You are one of these."</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p>The dogs and the children had found a new victim in the streets below. +Anthony's heart went out to him.</p> + +<p>"The purpose," continued Colonel Cooper, "was to notice anything just +a little bit peculiar in the auras and the persons they represent, +anything at all odd in their comings and goings. Anything like what you +have come here to report to me."</p> + +<p>"Like the seven persons who recently arrived in the world, and not by +way of birth?"</p> + +<p>"Yes. We have been expecting the first of the aliens for months. We +must know their area, and at once. Now tell me."</p> + +<p>"What if they are not aliens at all. What if they are restricted +persons like myself?"</p> + +<p>"Restricted persons have no aura, are not persons, are not alive. And +you would not receive knowledge of them."</p> + +<p>"Then how do I know the other restricted persons here, Adrian and +Wellington, and such?"</p> + +<p>"You know them at first hand. You do not know them through the machine. +Now tell me the area quickly. The center may be a primary target. It +will take the machine hours to ravel it out. Your only purpose is to +serve as an intuitive short-cut."</p> + +<p>But Tin Man Tony did not speak. He only thought in his mind—more +accurately, in his brain, a hundred yards away. He thought in his +fabricated consciousness:</p> + +<p>"The area is quite near. If the colonel were not burdened with a mind, +he would be able to think more clearly. He would know that cruel +children and dogs love to worry what is not human, and that all of the +restricted persons are accounted for in this area. He would know that +they are worrying one of the aliens in the street below, and that is +the area that is right in my consciousness.</p> + +<p>"I wonder if they will be better masters? He is an imposing figure, +and he would be able to pass for a man. And the colonel is right: The +Center is a primary target.</p> + +<p>"Why! I never knew you could kill a child just by pointing a finger at +him like that! What opportunities I have missed! Enemy of my enemy, you +are my friend."</p> + +<p>And aloud he said to the colonel:</p> + +<p>"I will not tell you."</p> + +<p>"Then we'll have you apart and get it out of you mighty quick."</p> + +<p>"How quick?"</p> + +<p>"Ten minutes."</p> + +<p>"Time enough," said Tony, for he knew them now, coming in like snow. +They were arriving in the world by the hundreds, and not arriving by +birth.</p> + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of All The People, by R.A. 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