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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: The Wheel is Death - -Author: Roger Dee - -Release Date: November 23, 2020 [EBook #63861] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WHEEL IS DEATH *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class="titlepage"> - -<h1>The Wheel Is Death</h1> - -<h2>By ROGER DEE</h2> - -<p>The little world was quiet at last.<br /> -Only one thing remained to be<br /> -done—Gor Zan must be slain, quickly.</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Planet Stories Fall 1949.<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" alt=""/> - <div class="caption"> - <p><i>His thin scream keened away in the distance.</i></p> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>He was too late to stop them. Old Kaliz dropped his upraised arm, and -at his signal the four naked under-priests flung the bound body of Gor -Zan over the precipice. Ortho heard his friend's thin scream keening -away until it dwindled in the distance and the muted roar of the falls -boiling at the cliff's bottom floated upward and drowned it.</p> - -<p>He turned to run, but the horror of what he had seen numbed his limbs -to nightmare slowness. Kaliz and the four under-priests caught him -before he had taken a dozen steps.</p> - -<p>"You are still a neophyte," old Kaliz said gently. "You have only begun -to learn, and so you cannot understand why Gor Zan had to die. The -answer lies there." He pointed a wrinkled hand to the Valley below.</p> - -<p>Over the heads of the four priests who squatted on the ledge outside -the priest-cave Ortho looked down into the Valley, the lush green miles -of its even floor clothed in a faint rosy haze of vapor. The sun sat -red upon the western wall; above the eastern rim the rising moon hung -warm and turquoise-blue, its great encircling ring pulsing like an aura -of living light. Under its glow the Valley-haze turned violet and then -blue, and on the heels of its rising came the faint elfin voices of the -People, leaving their caves to play in the meadow.</p> - -<p>Ortho sat back upon his polished sitting-stone and met the -high-priest's eyes defiantly.</p> - -<p>"There is no reason down there," he said sullenly. "It is only the -People, coming out to play under the moon. You killed Gor Zan because -he was wiser than you, because he talked to the People and made clear -to them things they did not understand before. You were jealous of him -and you killed him lest he make your own wisdom seem small in the eyes -of the People."</p> - -<p>Kaliz sighed and seated himself stiffly on his own sitting-stone.</p> - -<p>"The young do not learn easily," he said. "But believe this, -Ortho—your friend Gor Zan was a snare to the People and a deadly -menace to their way of life. We took him from them reluctantly and only -as a last resort, before he could start the People again on the bloody -path of ambition, progress and the Machine."</p> - -<p>Ortho cupped his still beardless chin in his hands and stared -disconsolately down into the blue-hazed Valley where the People played.</p> - -<p>"Empty talk," he said contemptuously. "Priest-talk—ambition, progress, -the Machine! I do not know the words. There is nothing but the Valley -and the People, who have always been and who will always be. Your words -have no meaning."</p> - -<p>"I have taught these others," Kaliz murmured. The blue moonlight pulsed -warm across his wrinkled face, made his hooded eyes pools of reflected -light. "I can teach you, too. You would know these things soon, because -you are almost ready to read the Books; but I shall tell you now, that -you may not be rebellious for lack of understanding."</p> - -<p>He pointed again, this time at the moon with its restless blue halo.</p> - -<p>"It was not always so," he said. His voice softened as his memory -drifted back across the ages. "Once it was yellow, pitted and airless -and dead, shining only with light reflected from the sun. Men changed -that, as they changed the face of their world, by the power of their -science, which in the end defeated the aims they strove for and -destroyed them almost utterly. The handful that remained of them found -haven in the Valley and began a new civilization, which is today the -People. This time, being wiser, they outlawed the practice of science."</p> - -<p>Under Kaliz' calm assurance Ortho's resentment dwindled, and his -loathing of the high-priest gave way to bewilderment.</p> - -<p>"Science?" he repeated. "It is another strange word. I do not -understand."</p> - -<p>"In another age Gor Zan would have been a scientist," Kaliz said. "I -have seen them with my own eyes in the ancient days, puttering in -tomblike shops that shut other men away from them, denying all pleasure -while they spent their lives improving what other scientists had -already discovered. They were never satisfied, and in the end it was -their insatiable lust for perfection that killed them, that set the -very moon aflame and flung mankind back into the savagery from which it -had risen.</p> - -<p>"For there was a time," he went on sombrely, shifting his sitting-stone -to follow Ortho's troubled gaze down into the blue depths of the -Valley, "long before my own, when men lived as simply as we, but -without our peace and security. The world then was a savage place, -full of frightful beasts which killed men for food because they were -no more than weaker animals. Men, being weak and soft, sought communal -safety in numbers and gained an advantage over the beasts because they -developed intelligence and logic by exchanging ideas and experiences.</p> - -<p>"They learned to use this intelligence to develop weapons which -eventually wiped out the dangerous beasts and made the world safe; -but they were not content with safety, and fought savagely among -themselves. Nations numbering millions of men came into being and -warred with each other, and with each war their ingenuity grew and the -deadliness of their weapons kept pace with their ingenuity."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Kaliz was quiet for a moment, listening to the faint laughter of the -People that drifted up faintly from the Valley floor.</p> - -<p>"Men were not happy then as they are now," he said. "I remember them, -Ortho, because I was one of them, and by a miracle escaped the great -holocaust that destroyed mankind. Men had developed a weapon whose -destructiveness was beyond the power of the mind to conceive, and it -escaped control; nation after nation died in a breath, whole continents -vanished under the impact of robot missiles whose explosions destroyed -matter itself. One of these, perhaps by intent, struck the moon, and -its reaction under the moon's lighter gravity set up a conflagration -which never went out.</p> - -<p>"Those of us who survived the holocaust were greatly changed by the -radiations of the explosions, and most of us soon died. I alone, by -chance, was rendered deathless. More ages have passed than I can -number, but I live on, perhaps eternally, to see that the People do not -err and fall again into the trap which science with its Machines would -place in their way.</p> - -<p>"Gor Zan was a throwback to my own savage day, a natural scientist who -believed nothing he was told and reasoned with a deadly logic that -nothing created by nature can be perfect, but must be improved by the -thought and effort of man. Today we slew him, reluctantly, because he -had taken the final irrevocable step that branded him a heretic and an -outlaw.</p> - -<p>"Gor Zan made a Machine."</p> - -<p>He stretched out a hand to Ortho and they rose together, the abashed -eyes of the neophyte not meeting those of the high-priest.</p> - -<p>"Come," Kaliz said, "and behold the thing with your own eyes. I have -kept it intact to convince you beyond doubt of Gor Zan's heresy."</p> - -<p>They went back into the priest-cave, past the long tiers of Books, -crumbling and yellow with age, to stand in awed silence over the thing -Gor Zan had made. Ortho stared, shivering, feeling the cold aura of -unsentient, alien power that radiated from the Machine.</p> - -<p>It was a crude affair, built upon two wooden shafts that slanted upward -to end in a pair of rough handles. Across them were lashed shorter -sticks that supported a woven basket. At the forward end was a thin -disc made of wooden segments, a little wooden axle running through the -center and holding the disc upright between the joined ends of the -shafts.</p> - -<p>"Gor Zan tired of making two trips to his cave with firewood and -fruit," old Kaliz said sombrely, "so he created a Machine which would -carry a greater load than his shoulders would bear. In my own age the -thing was called a Wheelbarrow, but the name of it is not important now -because there will never be another.</p> - -<p>"We will destroy it now, and with its destruction we will forget what -Gor Zan had rediscovered, which is the first principle of the Machine -that enslaved and then destroyed mankind—the Wheel."</p> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Wheel is Death, by Roger Dee - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WHEEL IS DEATH *** - -***** This file should be named 63861-h.htm or 63861-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/6/3/8/6/63861/ - -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 print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law 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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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: The Wheel is Death - -Author: Roger Dee - -Release Date: November 23, 2020 [EBook #63861] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WHEEL IS DEATH *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - The Wheel Is Death - - By ROGER DEE - - The little world was quiet at last. - Only one thing remained to be - done--Gor Zan must be slain, quickly. - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Planet Stories Fall 1949. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -[Illustration: _His thin scream keened away in the distance._] - -He was too late to stop them. Old Kaliz dropped his upraised arm, and -at his signal the four naked under-priests flung the bound body of Gor -Zan over the precipice. Ortho heard his friend's thin scream keening -away until it dwindled in the distance and the muted roar of the falls -boiling at the cliff's bottom floated upward and drowned it. - -He turned to run, but the horror of what he had seen numbed his limbs -to nightmare slowness. Kaliz and the four under-priests caught him -before he had taken a dozen steps. - -"You are still a neophyte," old Kaliz said gently. "You have only begun -to learn, and so you cannot understand why Gor Zan had to die. The -answer lies there." He pointed a wrinkled hand to the Valley below. - -Over the heads of the four priests who squatted on the ledge outside -the priest-cave Ortho looked down into the Valley, the lush green miles -of its even floor clothed in a faint rosy haze of vapor. The sun sat -red upon the western wall; above the eastern rim the rising moon hung -warm and turquoise-blue, its great encircling ring pulsing like an aura -of living light. Under its glow the Valley-haze turned violet and then -blue, and on the heels of its rising came the faint elfin voices of the -People, leaving their caves to play in the meadow. - -Ortho sat back upon his polished sitting-stone and met the -high-priest's eyes defiantly. - -"There is no reason down there," he said sullenly. "It is only the -People, coming out to play under the moon. You killed Gor Zan because -he was wiser than you, because he talked to the People and made clear -to them things they did not understand before. You were jealous of him -and you killed him lest he make your own wisdom seem small in the eyes -of the People." - -Kaliz sighed and seated himself stiffly on his own sitting-stone. - -"The young do not learn easily," he said. "But believe this, -Ortho--your friend Gor Zan was a snare to the People and a deadly -menace to their way of life. We took him from them reluctantly and only -as a last resort, before he could start the People again on the bloody -path of ambition, progress and the Machine." - -Ortho cupped his still beardless chin in his hands and stared -disconsolately down into the blue-hazed Valley where the People played. - -"Empty talk," he said contemptuously. "Priest-talk--ambition, progress, -the Machine! I do not know the words. There is nothing but the Valley -and the People, who have always been and who will always be. Your words -have no meaning." - -"I have taught these others," Kaliz murmured. The blue moonlight pulsed -warm across his wrinkled face, made his hooded eyes pools of reflected -light. "I can teach you, too. You would know these things soon, because -you are almost ready to read the Books; but I shall tell you now, that -you may not be rebellious for lack of understanding." - -He pointed again, this time at the moon with its restless blue halo. - -"It was not always so," he said. His voice softened as his memory -drifted back across the ages. "Once it was yellow, pitted and airless -and dead, shining only with light reflected from the sun. Men changed -that, as they changed the face of their world, by the power of their -science, which in the end defeated the aims they strove for and -destroyed them almost utterly. The handful that remained of them found -haven in the Valley and began a new civilization, which is today the -People. This time, being wiser, they outlawed the practice of science." - -Under Kaliz' calm assurance Ortho's resentment dwindled, and his -loathing of the high-priest gave way to bewilderment. - -"Science?" he repeated. "It is another strange word. I do not -understand." - -"In another age Gor Zan would have been a scientist," Kaliz said. "I -have seen them with my own eyes in the ancient days, puttering in -tomblike shops that shut other men away from them, denying all pleasure -while they spent their lives improving what other scientists had -already discovered. They were never satisfied, and in the end it was -their insatiable lust for perfection that killed them, that set the -very moon aflame and flung mankind back into the savagery from which it -had risen. - -"For there was a time," he went on sombrely, shifting his sitting-stone -to follow Ortho's troubled gaze down into the blue depths of the -Valley, "long before my own, when men lived as simply as we, but -without our peace and security. The world then was a savage place, -full of frightful beasts which killed men for food because they were -no more than weaker animals. Men, being weak and soft, sought communal -safety in numbers and gained an advantage over the beasts because they -developed intelligence and logic by exchanging ideas and experiences. - -"They learned to use this intelligence to develop weapons which -eventually wiped out the dangerous beasts and made the world safe; -but they were not content with safety, and fought savagely among -themselves. Nations numbering millions of men came into being and -warred with each other, and with each war their ingenuity grew and the -deadliness of their weapons kept pace with their ingenuity." - - * * * * * - -Kaliz was quiet for a moment, listening to the faint laughter of the -People that drifted up faintly from the Valley floor. - -"Men were not happy then as they are now," he said. "I remember them, -Ortho, because I was one of them, and by a miracle escaped the great -holocaust that destroyed mankind. Men had developed a weapon whose -destructiveness was beyond the power of the mind to conceive, and it -escaped control; nation after nation died in a breath, whole continents -vanished under the impact of robot missiles whose explosions destroyed -matter itself. One of these, perhaps by intent, struck the moon, and -its reaction under the moon's lighter gravity set up a conflagration -which never went out. - -"Those of us who survived the holocaust were greatly changed by the -radiations of the explosions, and most of us soon died. I alone, by -chance, was rendered deathless. More ages have passed than I can -number, but I live on, perhaps eternally, to see that the People do not -err and fall again into the trap which science with its Machines would -place in their way. - -"Gor Zan was a throwback to my own savage day, a natural scientist who -believed nothing he was told and reasoned with a deadly logic that -nothing created by nature can be perfect, but must be improved by the -thought and effort of man. Today we slew him, reluctantly, because he -had taken the final irrevocable step that branded him a heretic and an -outlaw. - -"Gor Zan made a Machine." - -He stretched out a hand to Ortho and they rose together, the abashed -eyes of the neophyte not meeting those of the high-priest. - -"Come," Kaliz said, "and behold the thing with your own eyes. I have -kept it intact to convince you beyond doubt of Gor Zan's heresy." - -They went back into the priest-cave, past the long tiers of Books, -crumbling and yellow with age, to stand in awed silence over the thing -Gor Zan had made. Ortho stared, shivering, feeling the cold aura of -unsentient, alien power that radiated from the Machine. - -It was a crude affair, built upon two wooden shafts that slanted upward -to end in a pair of rough handles. Across them were lashed shorter -sticks that supported a woven basket. At the forward end was a thin -disc made of wooden segments, a little wooden axle running through the -center and holding the disc upright between the joined ends of the -shafts. - -"Gor Zan tired of making two trips to his cave with firewood and -fruit," old Kaliz said sombrely, "so he created a Machine which would -carry a greater load than his shoulders would bear. In my own age the -thing was called a Wheelbarrow, but the name of it is not important now -because there will never be another. - -"We will destroy it now, and with its destruction we will forget what -Gor Zan had rediscovered, which is the first principle of the Machine -that enslaved and then destroyed mankind--the Wheel." - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Wheel is Death, by Roger Dee - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WHEEL IS DEATH *** - -***** This file should be named 63861.txt or 63861.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/6/3/8/6/63861/ - -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 print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law 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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