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But
in
each
case
in
function
only
,
not
in
psychology
.
The
man
-
woman
polarity
which
controlled
all
human
lives
could
not
exist
on
Mars
.
There
was
no
possibility
of
"
marriage
.
"
The
adults
were
huge
,
reminding
the
first
humans
to
see
them
of
ice
boats
under
sail
;
they
were
physically
passive
,
mentally
active
.
The
nymphs
were
fat
,
furry
spheres
,
full
of
bounce
and
mindless
energy
.
There
was
no
possible
parallel
between
human
and
Martian
psychological
foundations
.
Human
bipolarity
was
both
the
binding
force
and
the
driving
energy
for
all
human
behavior
,
from
sonnets
to
nuclear
equations
.
If
any
being
thinks
that
human
psychologists
exaggerate
on
this
point
,
let
it
search
Terran
patent
offices
,
libraries
,
and
art
galleries
for
creations
of
eunuchs
.
Mars
,
being
geared
unlike
Earth
,
paid
little
attention
to
the
Envoy
and
the
Champion
.
The
two
events
had
happened
too
recently
to
be
of
significance
–
if
Martians
had
used
newspapers
,
one
edition
a
Terran
century
would
have
been
ample
.
Contact
with
other
races
was
nothing
new
to
Martians
;
it
had
happened
before
,
would
happen
again
.
When
the
new
other
race
had
been
thoroughly
grokked
,
then
(
in
a
Terran
millennium
or
so
)
would
be
time
for
action
,
if
needed
.
On
Mars
the
currently
important
event
was
of
a
different
sort
.
The
discorporate
Old
Ones
had
decided
almost
absent
-
mindedly
to
send
the
nestling
human
to
grok
what
he
could
of
the
third
planet
,
then
turned
attention
back
to
serious
matters
.
Shortly
before
,
around
the
time
of
the
Terran
Caesar
Augustus
,
a
Martian
artist
had
been
engaged
in
composing
a
work
of
art
.
It
could
have
been
called
with
equal
truth
a
poem
,
a
musical
opus
,
or
a
philosophical
treatise
;
it
was
a
series
of
emotions
arranged
in
tragic
,
logical
necessity
.
Since
it
could
have
been
experienced
by
a
human
only
in
the
sense
in
which
a
man
blind
from
birth
could
have
a
sunset
explained
to
him
,
it
does
not
matter
much
to
which
category
of
human
creativity
it
might
be
assigned
.
The
important
point
was
that
the
artist
had
accidentally
discorporated
before
he
finished
his
masterpiece
.
Unexpected
discorporation
was
always
rare
on
Mars
;
Martian
taste
in
such
matters
called
for
life
to
be
a
rounded
whole
,
with
physical
death
taking
place
at
the
appropriate
and
selected
instant
.
This
artist
,
however
,
had
become
so
preoccupied
with
his
work
that
he
had
forgotten
to
come
in
out
of
the
cold
;
by
the
time
his
absence
was
noticed
his
body
was
hardly
fit
to
eat
.
He
himself
had
not
noticed
his
own
discorporation
and
had
gone
right
on
composing
his
sequence
.
Martian
art
was
divided
sharply
into
two
categories
,
that
sort
created
by
living
adults
,
which
was
vigorous
,
often
quite
radical
,
and
primitive
,
and
that
of
the
Old
Ones
,
which
was
usually
conservative
,
extremely
complex
,
and
was
expected
to
show
much
higher
standards
of
technique
;
the
two
sorts
were
judged
separately
.
By
what
standards
should
this
opus
be
judged
?
It
bridged
from
the
corporate
to
the
discorporate
;
its
final
form
had
been
set
throughout
by
an
Old
One
–
yet
on
the
other
hand
the
artist
,
with
the
detachment
of
all
artists
everywhere
,
had
not
even
noticed
the
change
in
his
status
and
had
continued
to
work
as
if
he
were
corporate
.
Was
it
possibly
a
new
sort
of
art
?
Could
more
such
pieces
be
produced
by
surprise
discorporation
of
artists
while
they
were
working
?
The
Old
Ones
had
been
discussing
the
exciting
possibilities
in
ruminative
rapport
for
centuries
and
all
corporate
Martians
were
eagerly
awaiting
their
verdict
.
The
question
was
of
greater
interest
because
it
had
not
been
abstract
art
,
but
religious
(
in
the
Terran
sense
)
and
strongly
emotional
–
it
described
the
contact
between
the
Martian
Race
and
the
people
of
the
fifth
planet
,
an
event
that
had
happened
long
ago
but
which
was
alive
and
important
to
Martians
in
the
sense
in
which
one
death
by
crucifixion
remained
alive
and
important
to
humans
after
two
Terran
millennia
.
The
Martian
Race
had
encountered
the
people
of
the
fifth
planet
,
grokked
them
completely
,
and
in
due
course
had
taken
action
;
the
asteroid
ruins
were
all
that
remained
,
save
that
the
Martians
continued
to
cherish
and
praise
the
people
they
had
destroyed
.
This
new
work
of
art
was
one
of
many
attempts
to
grok
all
parts
of
the
whole
beautiful
experience
in
all
its
complexity
in
one
opus
.
But
before
it
could
be
judged
it
was
necessary
to
grok
how
to
judge
it
.
It
was
a
very
pretty
problem
.
