"Dick - We Can Remember it For You Wholesale" - читать интересную книгу автора (Dick Phillip K)

"They're right."
Quail said, "I never made any trip. It's a false memory-
chain improperly planted in me by McClane's technicians."
But then he thought of the box, in his desk drawer, containing
the Martian life forms. And the trouble and hardship he had
had gathering them. The memory seemed real. And the box
of life forms; that certainly was real. Unless McClane had
planted it. Perhaps this was one of the "proofs" which
McClane had talked glibly about.
The memory of my trip to Mars, he thought, doesn't
convince mebut unfortunately it has convinced the Inter-
plan Police Agency. They think I really went to Mars and
they think I at least partially realize it.
"We not only know you went to Mars," the Interplan cop
agreed, in answer to his thoughts, "but we know that you now
remember enough to be difficult for us. And there's no use
expunging your conscious memory of all this, because if we
do you'll simply show up at Rekal, Incorporated again and
start over. And we can't do anything about McClane and his
operation because we have no jurisdiction over anyone except
our own people. Anyhow, McClane hasn't committed any
crime." He eyed Quail. "Nor, technically, have you. You
didn't go to Rekal, Incorporated with the idea of regaining
your memory; you went, as we realize, for the usual reason
people go therea love by plain, dull people for adventure."
He added, "Unfortunately you're not plain, not dull, and
you've already had too much excitement; the last thing in the
universe you needed was a course from Rekal, Incorporated.
Nothing could have been more lethal for you or for us. And,
for that matter, for McClane."
Quail said. "Why is it 'difficult' for you if I remember my
tripmy alleged tripand what I did there?"
"Because," the Interplan harness bull said, "what you did is
not in accord with our great white all-protecting father public
image. You did, for us, what we never do. As you'll presently
rememberthanks to narkidrme. That box of dead worms
and algae has been sitting in your desk drawer for six months,
ever since you got back. And at no time have you shown the
slightest curiosity about it. We didn't even know you had it
until you remembered it on your way home from Rekal; then
we came here on the double to look for it." He added,
unnecessarily, "Without any luck; there wasn't enough time."
A second Interplan cop joined the first one; the two briefly
conferred. Meanwhile, Quail thought rapidly. He did re-
. member more, now; the cop had been right about narkidrine.
TheyInterplanprobably used it themselves. Probably? He
knew darn well they did; he had seen them putting a prisoner
on it. Where would that be? Somewhere on Terra? More
likely Luna, he decided, viewing the image rising from his
highly defectivebut rapidly less somemory.