Triumph
“His expression showed his effort to visualize a circumstance he had, in fact, foreseen and prepared against. Yet even he, Ben decided, as he watched that taut face grimace, even this man, who had so imaginatively constructed a suitable refuge in his own home area, had not really been able to conceive of the northern half of his planet, from near its pole to its tropic seas, girdled with radioactive air and spread with universal death, on hot-dusted plains, valleys, mountains, seas, deserts, and... tundra-- all of it blotched, too, with the stratosphere-touching pyres of cities and by raging, uncountable forest fires. Half a world turned hell, and nearly everybody dead in that in-fernal belt. Or so vilely burned, so savagely injured, that death would come, finally, and be welcome.
Who could conceive it?
Could he, really, Ben thought? Not clearly.
By-and-by, Farr spoke. "Hour’s up." Be realized he had been dozing in his chair.
Together they re-entered the elevator and repeated their inspection.MoreLess
Who could conceive it?
Could he, really, Ben thought? Not clearly.
By-and-by, Farr spoke. "Hour’s up." Be realized he had been dozing in his chair.
Together they re-entered the elevator and repeated their inspection.MoreLess
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