The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (2004)
“But the results did not amount to much; they had been discarded for too long.By noon he was exhausted. So he treated himself to a break, resting in the shade of a mammoth, rusty tractor, eating a cold-rations lunch and drinking tepid tea from a thermos which Fran Schein had been kind enough to bring up to him.Below, in the hovel, the others did whatever it was they customarily did; he didn’t care.On all sides of him their abandoned, decaying gardens could be seen and he wondered if soon he woul...d forget his, too. Maybe each new colonist had started out this way, in an agony of effort. And then the torpor, the hopelessness, claimed them. And yet, was it so hopeless? Not really.It’s an attitude, he decided. And we—all of us who comprised P. P. Layouts—contributed willingly to it. We gave them an out, something painless and easy. And now Palmer Eldritch has arrived to put the finish on the process. We laid the path for him, myself included, and so what now? Is there any way that I can, as Faine put it, atone?Approaching him, Helen Morris called cheerfully, “How’s the farming coming?”MoreLess
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