The Makeshift Rocket (2011)
“He had a mug in one hand and the tap of the keg in the other. Claus perched on a rack muttering: ‘Damn Rory McConnell. Damn anybody who von’t damn Rory McConnell. Damn anybody who von’t sit up all night damning Rory McConnell.’ ‘Oh, there you are,’ said the Martian. ‘Your breakfast has gotten cold.’ ‘I don’t vant no breakfast,’ said Herr Syrup. He tossed off his mug and tapped it full again.
‘Not even after your triumph last watch?’ ‘Vat good is a triumph ven I ain’t triumphant? I have sealed h...im into de engine room, jo, vich is to say ve can’t move de ship from dis orbit. You see, de polarity reverser vich I installed on de geegee lines, to give us veight, is in dere vit’ him, and ve can’t travel till it has been taken out again. So ve can’t go direct to New Vinshester ourselves. And he has also de electrical parts locked up vit’ him.’ ‘I have never sullied my mathematics with any attempt at a merely practical application,’ said Sarmishkidu piously, ‘but I have studied electromagnetic theory and it would appear upon integration of the Maxwell equations that you could rip out wires here and there, machine the bar and plate metal stored for repair work in the shop, and thus improvise an oscillator.’ ‘Sure,’ said Herr Syrup.MoreLess
‘Not even after your triumph last watch?’ ‘Vat good is a triumph ven I ain’t triumphant? I have sealed h...im into de engine room, jo, vich is to say ve can’t move de ship from dis orbit. You see, de polarity reverser vich I installed on de geegee lines, to give us veight, is in dere vit’ him, and ve can’t travel till it has been taken out again. So ve can’t go direct to New Vinshester ourselves. And he has also de electrical parts locked up vit’ him.’ ‘I have never sullied my mathematics with any attempt at a merely practical application,’ said Sarmishkidu piously, ‘but I have studied electromagnetic theory and it would appear upon integration of the Maxwell equations that you could rip out wires here and there, machine the bar and plate metal stored for repair work in the shop, and thus improvise an oscillator.’ ‘Sure,’ said Herr Syrup.MoreLess
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