2016年08月11日12:09
FourKingdoms involves the strange
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Once we are in a position to give orders, why, give them as though you wereborn to do so, and they'll obey out of habit. That's the essence of acoup.""If the Board remains irresolute for even ?
"The Board? Count them out. After tomorrow, their importance as a factor inTerminus affairs won't matter a rusty half-credit."Lee nodded slowly. "Yet it is strange that they've done nothing to stop usso far. You say they weren't entirely in the dark.""Fara stumbles at the edges of the problem. Sometimes he makes me nervous travel newsletter.
And Pirenne's been suspicious of me since I was elected. But, you see, theynever had the capacity of really understanding what was up. Their wholetraining has been authoritarian. They are sure that the Emperor, justbecause he is the Emperor, is all-powerful. And they are sure that theBoard of Trustees, simply because it is the Board of Trustees acting in thename of the Emperor, cannot be in a position where it does not give theorders. That incapacity to recognize the possibility of revolt is our bestally."He heaved out of his chair and went to the water cooler. "They're not badfellows, Lee, when they stick to their Encyclopedia ?and we'll see thatthat's where they stick in the future. They're hopelessly incompetent whenit comes to ruling Terminus. Go away now and start things rolling. I wantto be alone."He sat down on the comer of his desk and stared at the cup of water.
Space! If only he were as confident as he pretended! The Anacreonians werelanding in two days and what had he to go on but a set of notions andhalf-guesses as to what Had Seldon had been driving at these past fiftyyears? He wasn't even a real, honest-to-goodness psychologist ? just afumbler with a little training trying to outguess the greatest mind of theage offshore company formation.
If Fara were fight; if Anacreon were all the problem Hari Seldon hadforeseen; if the Encyclopedia were all he was interested in preserving ?THE FOUR KINGDOMS ? The name given to those portions of the Province ofAnacreon which broke away from the First Empire in the early years of theFoundational Era to form independent and short-lived kingdoms. The largestand most powerful of these was Anacreon itself which in area...
... Undoubtedly the most interesting aspect of the history of the society forced temporarily upon it during theadministration of Salvor Hardin....
ENCYCLOPEDIA GALACTICAA deputation!
That Salvor Hardin had seen it coming made it none the more pleasant. Onthe contrary, he found anticipation distinctly annoying.
Yohan Lee advocated extreme measures. "I don't see, Hardin," he said, "thatwe need waste any time. They can't do anything till next election ?
legally, anyway ? and that gives us a year. Give them the brush-off."Hardin pursed his lips. "Lee, you'll never learn. In the forty years I'veknown you, you've never once learned the gentle art of sneaking up frombehind.""It's not my way of fighting," grumbled Lee .
"The Board? Count them out. After tomorrow, their importance as a factor inTerminus affairs won't matter a rusty half-credit."Lee nodded slowly. "Yet it is strange that they've done nothing to stop usso far. You say they weren't entirely in the dark.""Fara stumbles at the edges of the problem. Sometimes he makes me nervous travel newsletter.
And Pirenne's been suspicious of me since I was elected. But, you see, theynever had the capacity of really understanding what was up. Their wholetraining has been authoritarian. They are sure that the Emperor, justbecause he is the Emperor, is all-powerful. And they are sure that theBoard of Trustees, simply because it is the Board of Trustees acting in thename of the Emperor, cannot be in a position where it does not give theorders. That incapacity to recognize the possibility of revolt is our bestally."He heaved out of his chair and went to the water cooler. "They're not badfellows, Lee, when they stick to their Encyclopedia ?and we'll see thatthat's where they stick in the future. They're hopelessly incompetent whenit comes to ruling Terminus. Go away now and start things rolling. I wantto be alone."He sat down on the comer of his desk and stared at the cup of water.
Space! If only he were as confident as he pretended! The Anacreonians werelanding in two days and what had he to go on but a set of notions andhalf-guesses as to what Had Seldon had been driving at these past fiftyyears? He wasn't even a real, honest-to-goodness psychologist ? just afumbler with a little training trying to outguess the greatest mind of theage offshore company formation.
If Fara were fight; if Anacreon were all the problem Hari Seldon hadforeseen; if the Encyclopedia were all he was interested in preserving ?THE FOUR KINGDOMS ? The name given to those portions of the Province ofAnacreon which broke away from the First Empire in the early years of theFoundational Era to form independent and short-lived kingdoms. The largestand most powerful of these was Anacreon itself which in area...
... Undoubtedly the most interesting aspect of the history of the society forced temporarily upon it during theadministration of Salvor Hardin....
ENCYCLOPEDIA GALACTICAA deputation!
That Salvor Hardin had seen it coming made it none the more pleasant. Onthe contrary, he found anticipation distinctly annoying.
Yohan Lee advocated extreme measures. "I don't see, Hardin," he said, "thatwe need waste any time. They can't do anything till next election ?
legally, anyway ? and that gives us a year. Give them the brush-off."Hardin pursed his lips. "Lee, you'll never learn. In the forty years I'veknown you, you've never once learned the gentle art of sneaking up frombehind.""It's not my way of fighting," grumbled Lee .