趁生命气息逗留英文原版_For_a_Breath_I_Tarry.doc

Roger Zelazny. For a Breath I Tarry .txtRoger Zelazny. For a Breath I Tarry They called him Frost. Of all things created of Solcom Frost was thefinest the mightiest the most difficult to understand. This is why he bore a name and why he was given dominion over half theEarth. On the day of Frosts createion Solcom had suffered a discontinuity ofcomplementary functions best described as madness. This was brought onby an unprecedented solar flareup which lasted for a little overthirty-six hous. It occurred during a vital phase ofcircuit-structuring and when it was finished so was Frost. Solcom was then in the unique position of having created a unique beingduing a period of temporary amnesia. And Solcom was not cetain that Frost was the product originally desired. The initial design had called for a machine to be situated on thesurface of the planet Earth to function as a relay station andcoordinating agent for activities in the notrhern hemisphere. Solcomtested the machine to this end and all of its responses were perfect. Yet there was somethig different about Frost something which ledSolcom to dignify him with a name and a personal pronoun. This initself was an almost unheard of occurrence. The molecular circuits hadalready been sealed though and could not be aalyzed without beingdestroyed in the process. Frost represented too great an investment ofSolcoms time energy and materials to be dismantled because of anintangible especially when he functioned perfectly. Theefore Solcoms strangest creation was given dominion over half theEarth ad they called him unimaginatively Frost. For te thousand years Frost sat at the North Pole of the Earth awareof every snowflake that fell. He monitored and directed the activitiesof thousands of reconstruction and maintenance machines. He knew halfthe Earth as gear knows gear as electricity knows its conductor as avacuum knows its limits. At the South Pole the Beta-Machine did the same for the southernhemisphere. For te thousand years