A Century of Progress
“In it people were arguing about Jerry, while he lay helpless. Some of them wanted to do away with him entirely. Later he was unable to remember any of their words, but the sense of their purpose remained horribly clear.
In a physical sense, too, the argument was over him. Men and women were actually shouting at each other across his prostrate body, as he lay on some kind of bed or stretcher. And he knew that, just out of his range of vision, some kind of horrors were walking past.
Then ...at another time he was being carried on a stretcher, or something like one. There followed a ride in some peculiar vehicle. It wasn’t Norlund’s truck; it wasn’t quite like anything else that Jerry had ever seen. During this ride a woman who was sitting near bent over him to whisper in his ear, words that were meant to be reassuring, and then she pulled a cloth up over his face so he couldn’t see or hear what was going on around him, and he wondered if he was dead.MoreLess
In a physical sense, too, the argument was over him. Men and women were actually shouting at each other across his prostrate body, as he lay on some kind of bed or stretcher. And he knew that, just out of his range of vision, some kind of horrors were walking past.
Then ...at another time he was being carried on a stretcher, or something like one. There followed a ride in some peculiar vehicle. It wasn’t Norlund’s truck; it wasn’t quite like anything else that Jerry had ever seen. During this ride a woman who was sitting near bent over him to whisper in his ear, words that were meant to be reassuring, and then she pulled a cloth up over his face so he couldn’t see or hear what was going on around him, and he wondered if he was dead.MoreLess
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