Notes on reading Rogue Moon

 

 

 

 

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                                                                                         What we need is a man who is attracted by what drives other people to madness

A man who is impassioned by death

 

Success blinds all Chaucer

 

His mind is what he does with his memories, there is no other mind like it …in a sense, man is his own creation

 

There is reason to think it exists in more than three special dimensions

 

Who can decide it is time for a man to die…great speech there  

 

What do you think we’re dealing with here, something Leonardo da Vinci could have handled? If he could have, he would have and we would have had the twentieth century in fifteen hundred

Zombies living dead created by professor Hawks

You mean I am stuck here? Asks Barker is that worse than dying?

Remember me to her    from Hawks L to Hawks M

 

I have him

Sometimes answers will come so eaily into your head it wouldn’t be even called work, now that is calling Shahar

 

 

Two groups the ones moved and the ones doing the moving says this Connington, who has the guy and says he is also a mover like Haeks

1959

 

Edward Hawks, Doctor of Science

 

 

You sent him to a place where no human being should go

It is mny fault

Weston said he was a volunteer, he knew he could die

Weston said cure him, electroshock treatments, he will forget what happened

 

We tear a gateway and send men, that is called scientific investigation, human adventure

Tehn something that had never bothered humanity before kills them

Then we make progress

You mean we don’t kill them, they become insane

Latourette

Sedatives

Doesn’t matter, that place wont tolerate them

It’s a monstrous thing we are dealing with

 

They have some kind of competition, this is a firm somehow Continetnal Electronics

 

We have to find a diffrenet kind of man to send out there, a man who will not go insane when he knows he will die

They go to see this fella, head of research and head of personnel for Continental

 

Al Barker the man in sports pages artificial leg grandparents Apache, grandfather most dangerous on the north American continenet, Ivy League education for Al

Parachutist transfreered to OSS, specialized in assassination used to be Olympic ski, bobsled, small arms national champion, mountain climber, pilot, built a car to eneter Grand Priz

 

Claire Pack friend of Barker at the house where it is difficult to drive a pool

He has her by conquest a helicopter took one French in the alps when they met

 

Hawks shows pictures landscape or is it a living thing?

Offers job to Barker and can only tell him it is on the Moon, before he accepts the assignment

Barker says

There are people who act and those who scheme

The ones who scheme want to take credit, presume it is Connington he refers to

 

Would you care to discuss art, Doctor? Western or Oriental…music? Pick any slice of civilization, I knew them all

Wow

 

Some glorious lines the personnel man explains he knows how to mix people, it can explode and thesde two were meant to meet

Hawks would not drive down with Barker

Down he says you are a suicide I am a murderer , different people

 

Elizabeth cummings at the store, offers him a lift, eventually he says his name

42 year old, unmarried, colledge graduate, works for Conti

Just getting started as fashion designer, single, 25

 

We will transmit you to the moon

Just like that, no rockets…

 

Latourette says respect Braker! Doctor Hawks the only one in the world who could have built this, then compare to chimps something

 

Space suit of some kind but he has an artificial leg and needs to give it to the ensign

 

Barker says to Hawks that Cliare compares him, and every time she comes back to him, it proves he is still the toughest in the pack, otherwise she would not be back