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//-->A FAREWELL TOOZBYGERARD LANGA, MARCH LAUMER,ANITA McGREW & DINA BRIONES1A FAREWELL TOOZDedicatedto the memory ofKEITH LAUMER1925 — 1993He loved Oz so.Alas, he leftalmost too lategoing therein life...2A FAREWELL TOOZA FAREWELLtozOTHE OZ BOOK FOR 2000By Gerard Langa, March Laumer, AnitaMcGrew & Dina Briones.Edited by Paul S. Ritz.Founded on and Continuing theStories by March Laumer3A FAREWELL TOOZCopyright © 1993 by March Laumer.Individual chapters copyright © 1993 by their respective authors.All Rights Reserved.The Vanitas Press.Published with the long-standing encouragementof Contemporary Books, Inc., Chicago.First Provisional Edition: 1993Second Provisional Edition: 2006Opium Books Series number 364A FAREWELL TOOZCHAPTERONE“Poor guy. Looks like he died of boredom.”“Yes, I think he could have. See the control panel? But there’snothing on the screen.”“That’s right. Yes, look—if I can get it out of his hand—. Yeah.You press the button and nothing happens.”“How awful.”“How do these things work anyway? Are there batteries? orwhat’s the story?”“Search me. I suppose a technician would know. But if thething was dead...”“Yeah. And he couldn’t move. That is to say, he couldn’t anylonger get up, stand up and move to the set... There, see? It worksall right if you push the buttons on the box itself.”“Oh, turn it off! Terrible. What was that?Andy Griffith?OrtheBeverly Hillbillies?”“One or the other. He liked both of them.”“How could he? Mindless.”“Well, you get like that if all you’ve got left is the T.V. Hegradually gave up everything. Got so he couldn’t even turn overin bed. And yet, you know, he could still see without glasses—”“Yeah, good eyesight seemed to run in the family.”“—and he could still operate the T.V. handpiece okay. He5 [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]