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"
I
will
call
it
a
‘
stereovision
receiver
.
’
Why
,
Jubal
?
I
do
not
grok
.
"
Harshaw
sighed
,
with
a
tired
feeling
that
he
had
climbed
these
same
stairs
too
many
times
.
Any
conversation
with
Smith
turned
up
at
least
one
bit
of
human
behavior
which
could
not
be
justified
logically
,
at
least
in
terms
that
Smith
could
understand
,
and
attempts
to
do
so
were
endlessly
time
-
consuming
.
"
I
do
not
grok
it
myself
,
Mike
,
"
he
admitted
,
"
but
Jill
wants
you
to
say
it
that
way
.
"
"
I
will
do
it
,
Jubal
.
Jill
wants
it
.
"
"
Now
tell
me
what
you
saw
and
heard
in
that
stereovision
receiver
–
and
what
you
grok
of
it
.
"
The
conversation
that
followed
was
even
more
lengthy
,
confused
,
and
rambling
than
a
usual
talk
with
Smith
.
Mike
recalled
accurately
every
word
and
action
he
had
heard
and
seen
in
the
babble
tank
,
including
all
commercials
.
Since
he
had
almost
completed
reading
the
encyclopedia
,
he
had
read
its
article
on
"
Religion
,
"
as
well
as
ones
on
"
Christianity
,
"
"
Islam
,
"
"
Judaism
,
"
"
Confucianism
,
"
"
Buddhism
,
"
and
many
others
concerning
religion
and
related
subjects
.
But
he
had
grokked
none
of
this
.
Jubal
at
last
got
certain
ideas
clear
in
his
own
mind
:
(
a
)
Mike
did
not
know
that
the
Fosterite
service
was
a
religious
one
;
(
b
)
Mike
remembered
what
he
had
read
about
religions
but
had
filed
such
data
for
future
contemplation
,
having
recognized
that
he
did
not
understand
them
;
(
c
)
in
fact
,
Mike
had
only
the
most
confused
notion
of
what
the
word
"
religion
"
meant
,
even
though
he
could
quote
all
nine
definitions
for
same
as
given
in
the
unabridged
dictionary
;
(
d
)
the
Martian
language
contained
no
word
(
and
no
concept
)
which
Mike
was
able
to
equate
with
any
of
these
nine
definitions
;
(
e
)
the
customs
which
Jubal
had
described
to
Duke
as
Martian
"
religious
ceremonies
"
were
nothing
of
the
sort
to
Mike
;
to
Mike
such
matters
were
as
matter
-
of
-
fact
as
grocery
markets
were
to
Jubal
;
(
f
)
it
was
not
possible
to
express
as
separate
ideas
in
the
Martian
tongue
the
human
concepts
:
"
religion
,
"
"
philosophy
,
"
and
"
science
"
–
and
,
since
Mike
still
thought
in
Martian
even
though
he
now
spoke
English
fluently
,
it
was
not
yet
possible
for
him
to
distinguish
any
one
such
concept
from
the
other
two
.
All
such
matters
were
simply
"
learnings
"
which
came
from
the
"
Old
Ones
.
"
Doubt
he
had
never
heard
of
and
research
was
unnecessary
(
no
Martian
word
for
either
)
;
the
answer
to
any
question
should
be
obtained
from
the
Old
Ones
,
who
were
omniscient
(
at
least
within
Mike
’
s
scope
)
and
infallible
,
whether
the
subject
be
tomorrow
’
s
weather
or
cosmic
teleology
.
(
Mike
had
seen
a
weather
forecast
in
the
babble
box
and
had
assumed
without
question
that
this
was
a
message
from
human
"
Old
Ones
"
being
passed
around
for
the
benefit
of
those
still
corporate
.
Further
inquiry
disclosed
that
he
held
a
similar
assumption
concerning
the
authors
of
the
Encyclopedia
Britannica
.
)
But
last
,
and
worst
to
Jubal
,
causing
him
baffled
consternation
,
Mike
had
grokked
the
Fosterite
service
as
including
(
among
things
he
had
not
grokked
)
an
announcement
of
an
impending
discorporation
of
two
humans
who
were
about
to
join
the
human
"
Old
Ones
"
–
and
Mike
was
tremendously
excited
at
this
news
.
Had
he
grokked
it
rightly
?
Mike
knew
that
his
comprehension
of
English
was
less
than
perfect
;
he
continued
to
make
mistakes
through
his
ignorance
,
being
"
only
an
egg
.
"
But
had
he
grokked
this
correctly
?
He
had
been
waiting
to
meet
the
human
"
Old
Ones
,
"
for
he
had
many
questions
to
ask
.
Was
this
an
opportunity
?
Or
did
he
require
more
learnings
from
his
water
brothers
before
he
was
ready
?
Jubal
was
saved
by
the
bell
.
Dorcas
arrived
with
sandwiches
and
coffee
,
the
household
’
s
usual
fair
-
weather
picnic
lunch
.
Jubal
ate
silently
,
which
suited
Smith
as
his
rearing
had
taught
him
that
eating
was
a
time
for
contemplation
–
he
had
found
rather
upsetting
the
chatter
that
usually
took
place
at
the
table
.
Jubal
stretched
out
his
meal
while
he
pondered
what
to
tell
Mike
–
and
cursed
himself
for
the
folly
of
having
permitted
Mike
to
watch
stereo
in
the
first
place
.
