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Shangri-La, issue 5, March-April 1948
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TWO ATOMIC CHANCES By Eduardo Vance About this atomic bomb fuss: The way I look at it, you always have two chances on it. It either drops or it doesn't. If it doesn't, there is nothing to get excited about. If it does, you have two chances. Either it hits you or it doesn't. If it hits you, you'll neither know nor have to worry about it any more. If it doesn't, you still have two chances. Either nothing happens to you or you may get harmed by some of the follow-up reactions. If nothing happens to you, what's all the worry been good for, anyway? If some of those reactions do happen to you, you still have two chances. Either they make you ill or they don't. If they make you ill you'll probably waste away and die, and then it won't bother you any more. And, if you do die, according to the religionists, you still have two chances, and you know what they are. If it doesn't make you ill, you have two chances yet. It can mutate you into something uh-human, in which case you will become an animal and won't be able to think about it anymore, or you'll become a super-man, and isn't that you're looking for? If you're mutated back to an animal, you have a pair of chances. You can find a similar animal of the opposite sex and have a hell of a time, or you can hunt and be hunted, and maybe make a goulash for a better animal. If you're mutated into super-man, you still have two chances. You can go out and conquer what is left of the world, or you can evolve into something that can integrate into forty-'leven dimensions and go exploring the Universe from then on. If you are the super-man who conquers the world, you have two chances. Either you work hard until you have everything under control and then rot of boredom, or some super-super-man comes along and takes it away from you. If you are the super-man who goes gallivanting around and through the Universes, you can still have two chances. Either you get lost and can't find your way back, or you can keep going until there are no more dimensions or universes to explore, and then you'll stagnate from boredom. And on and on... I figure that I can be pessimistic or optomistic. So, if it's all the same to you, I'll take the latter. (6)
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TWO ATOMIC CHANCES By Eduardo Vance About this atomic bomb fuss: The way I look at it, you always have two chances on it. It either drops or it doesn't. If it doesn't, there is nothing to get excited about. If it does, you have two chances. Either it hits you or it doesn't. If it hits you, you'll neither know nor have to worry about it any more. If it doesn't, you still have two chances. Either nothing happens to you or you may get harmed by some of the follow-up reactions. If nothing happens to you, what's all the worry been good for, anyway? If some of those reactions do happen to you, you still have two chances. Either they make you ill or they don't. If they make you ill you'll probably waste away and die, and then it won't bother you any more. And, if you do die, according to the religionists, you still have two chances, and you know what they are. If it doesn't make you ill, you have two chances yet. It can mutate you into something uh-human, in which case you will become an animal and won't be able to think about it anymore, or you'll become a super-man, and isn't that you're looking for? If you're mutated back to an animal, you have a pair of chances. You can find a similar animal of the opposite sex and have a hell of a time, or you can hunt and be hunted, and maybe make a goulash for a better animal. If you're mutated into super-man, you still have two chances. You can go out and conquer what is left of the world, or you can evolve into something that can integrate into forty-'leven dimensions and go exploring the Universe from then on. If you are the super-man who conquers the world, you have two chances. Either you work hard until you have everything under control and then rot of boredom, or some super-super-man comes along and takes it away from you. If you are the super-man who goes gallivanting around and through the Universes, you can still have two chances. Either you get lost and can't find your way back, or you can keep going until there are no more dimensions or universes to explore, and then you'll stagnate from boredom. And on and on... I figure that I can be pessimistic or optomistic. So, if it's all the same to you, I'll take the latter. (6)
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