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Harlan
’
s
long
fingers
caressed
the
volumes
in
his
small
bookshelf
.
He
took
one
out
and
,
unseeingly
,
opened
it
.
The
print
blurred
.
The
faded
colors
of
the
illustrations
were
ugly
,
meaningless
blotches
.
Why
had
Finge
troubled
to
tell
him
all
this
?
In
the
strictest
sense
he
ought
not
to
have
.
An
Observer
,
or
anyone
acting
as
Observer
,
ought
never
to
know
the
ends
attained
by
his
Observation
.
It
removed
him
by
so
much
from
the
ideal
position
of
the
objective
non
-
human
tool
.
It
was
to
crush
him
,
of
course
;
to
take
a
mean
and
jealous
revenge
!
Harlan
fingered
the
open
page
of
the
magazine
.
He
found
himself
staring
at
a
duplication
,
in
startling
red
,
of
a
ground
vehicle
,
similar
to
vehicles
characteristic
of
the
45th
,
182nd
,
590th
,
and
984th
Centuries
,
as
well
as
of
late
Primitive
times
.
It
was
a
very
common
sort
of
affair
with
an
internal
-
combustion
motor
.
In
the
Primitive
era
natural
petroleum
fractions
were
the
source
of
power
and
natural
rubber
cushioned
the
wheels
.
That
was
true
of
none
of
the
later
centuries
,
of
course
.
Harlan
had
pointed
that
out
to
Cooper
.
He
had
made
quite
a
point
of
it
,
and
now
his
mind
,
as
though
longing
to
turn
away
from
the
unhappy
present
,
drifted
back
to
that
moment
.
Sharp
,
irrelevant
images
filled
the
ache
within
Harlan
.
"
These
advertisements
,
"
he
had
said
,
"
tell
us
more
of
Primitive
times
than
the
so
-
called
news
articles
in
the
same
magazine
.
The
news
articles
assume
a
basic
knowledge
of
the
world
it
deals
with
.
It
uses
terms
it
feels
no
necessity
of
explaining
.
What
is
a
’
golf
ball
,
’
for
instance
?
"
Cooper
had
professed
his
ignorance
readily
.
Harlan
went
on
in
the
didactic
tone
he
could
scarcely
avoid
on
occasions
such
as
this
.
"
We
could
deduce
that
it
was
a
small
pellet
of
some
sort
from
the
nature
of
the
casual
mentions
it
receives
.
We
know
that
it
is
used
in
a
game
,
if
only
because
it
is
mentioned
in
an
item
under
the
heading
’
Sport
.
’
We
can
even
make
further
deductions
that
it
is
hit
by
a
long
rod
of
some
sort
and
that
the
object
of
the
game
is
to
drive
the
ball
into
a
hole
in
the
ground
.
But
why
bother
with
deduction
and
reasoning
?
Observe
this
advertisement
!
The
object
of
it
is
only
to
induce
readers
to
buy
the
ball
,
but
in
so
doing
we
are
presented
with
an
excellent
close
-
range
portrait
of
one
,
with
a
section
cut
into
it
to
show
its
construction
.
"
Cooper
,
coming
from
an
era
in
which
advertisement
was
not
as
wildly
proliferative
as
it
was
in
the
later
Centuries
of
Primitive
times
,
found
all
this
difficult
to
appreciate
.
