Tuesday, December 26, 2006

A fine day

Daneel looked across the bars. Bars were of course anachronisms, but so was this planet, he thought with a sense of amusement. To humans who existed prior to establishment of Galactic Federation, this would be cause of a little astonishment and much paranoia, but he reasoned such is the course of humanity, for all his superior intellect he was still searching for zeroth law which will supersede even the first law. Until then he had to rely on skills taught to him by Giskard. Today he was optimistic, he had came to know through his contacts, that Bill Clinton, president of Galactic federation will soon proclaim slavery illegal. He smelled the morning air, another feet which would be beyond comprehension of ancients. He whistled tune of an ancient song, old even by his age,"Where the mind is free". He loved this place.

Similar were the sentiments of Lentulus Batiatus. After a life time of hustling across the galaxy, he had settled on this particular planet and he did not regret the decision, even with threat of war looming. Thinking of war, he muttered a silent curse, "Bill Clinton, that blasted robot".
This was of course not true, Bill Clinton as human as any one else, but his mood improved, he felt the morning wind and sighed happily.

John Brown was exhilarated, soon he was going to strike a lethal blow to this degrading institution of slavery. He did not doubt that even this mostly tranquil planet would award him only death for what he was going to do. For he was a man of action, and he intended to act, with force. Sure there were reprisals against his people, "but what the hell", he thought, it was his planet, the place he was born, grown up and lived all his life. Now that some carpet baggers had used the remote location of the planet as a hub for trading robot slaves, he would not take it lying down. He looked at the rising sole and whispered, "Yes, Pompeii is a fine place to live".

(Encyclopedia Galactica: 2000 years after establishment of Galactic Federation, Sole a minor star of Archimedes system imploded under mysterious circumstances. However except for destruction of planet Pompeii, a trading centre for outer systems )

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

hmm....wonder who u r trying to copy/? tolkin....? look, give upp the pretence. u are a chut and will remain a neglected chut , whatever difficult words you ghusadofy in ur dull prose : )