"Jerry Davis - Elko the Potter (2)" - читать интересную книгу автора (Davis Jerry)

allow him to teach a class in pottery in the Great Hall of
Learning.
Here he was, elbow to elbow with the great minds of the ages,
just because he put four wheels on two sticks and attached a
basket to the top. It didn't make sense to him.
"So, you're the inventor of the wheel." Elko looked up at the
man who spoke. He was tall and had a charming smile, and his name
tag read, "John Kennedy, Great Political Leader." John introduced
himself and shook Elko's hand, then indicated a short, dark-haired
man standing next to him. "Elko, this is my good friend Franz.
Franz Kafka. He's a famous writer."
Franz shook hands with Elko. "I program computers, now," he
said.
"Computers made of dirt! Digital logic!" Elko blurted. He
covered his mouth with his hands, and shook his head.
"Recent language upload, eh?" John said. "Don't worry, it
calms down after a few days." He and Franz sat down across from
Elko, each with their own cafeteria trays. "The foods here's
great, isn't it?"
"Preprocessed cloned non-cholesterol!" Elko blurted.
"Fabricated meat food product!"
"Amazing, isn't it?"

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"I never did like greasy food," Franz said. "It always gave
me indigestion."
"It must be a real change for you, Mr. Potter. Food-wise as
well as everything else. I heard you made an over seven-thousand
year leap."
"Eight-thousand," Franz said. "He's from around six-thousand
B.C."
"Before Christ . . . imagine that!"
"Millennium!" Elko blurted. "Cosmos!"
"Wasn't that right around the time of the invention of the
written word itself?" Franz said. "Did written language exist
during your time period?"
"Hieroglyphics!" Elko's mouth spat the word out violently,
then he was able to control himself. He drank some water and took
a deep breath. "Crude writing was around. It existed. We regarded
it with a mixture of suspicion and awe."
"What do you think of it now?"
"Alphabet!" Once again, Elko put his hands over his mouth.
"Information!" he shouted into his hands. "Immortality!"
"In a few days they're going to have you start writing your
thoughts and reflections down," Franz said. "It's to give the
students a database of quotes they can attribute to you as they're
learning."
John leaned forward and whispered, "If you need any help,