"Leo Frankowski - Copernicks Rebellion" - читать интересную книгу автора (Frankowski Leo)

"That work-was stopped. I helped stop it. I guess my sins are
coming back to me."
"So maybe dying would serve you right. But justice isn't a fact of
nature, either. Anyway, the work wasn't stopped. It just went
underground."
"How could Heiny do that without being caught?"
"Motivation. He didn't want to die, either. Look, Moe. I'll keep your
secrets if you'll keep mine."
"About Heiny? Why not? He didn't break any laws. And knowing
about it would just upset folks."
"About rejuvenation. And about me. Moe, I'm not my grandson. I'm
me."
The senator stared at von Bork for thirty seconds. "You've got one
hell of a lot of proving to do, boy!" "Ask me some questions."


"So I could be young again... Okay, I'm sold. Now, how do I find
Heiny Copernick? And what does it cost?"
"You don't find Mr. Copernick. And he doesn't want your money.
He wants your support."
"Somehow I figured that that was coming. So Heiny wants to
legitimize rejuvenation... ?" The senator was an old hand at making
deals. "I can try, Lou. But even I don't swing that much weight.
Eighty-three percent of the federal budget goes to direct aid to
individuals. If we had to support every oldster until he was a hundred,
instead of seventy-two like now, we would have to more than double
federal revenues. Which means doubling the taxes, and they are up to
sixty-one percent of gross income already!"
"No. That's a dead issue. You're on the HEW appropriations
committee. The next issue we're interested in is tree houses. There must
be no governmental regulations concerning them."
"Tree houses? Genetically modified trees? I've heard of them.
Nobody's kicked up much of a fuss about them so far. Can't be more
than a dozen of them growing. Why? Is Heiny behind that one, too?"
"Not exactly. Let's say he's interested."
"I'm your man, Lou. I mean, if all you want is for the government to
keep hands off them."
"That's all."
"Well, new technology shouldn't be regulated, anyway. Say, what's
my constituency going to say about me looking like a kid?"
"You're not going to look like a teenager, Moe. It would ruin your
effectiveness. No, you're about to have a spontaneous remission. You'll
grow a new set of organs, but that's all. For the time being, at least."
"For the time being?" the senator said.
"In ten or twenty years, when you're ready, you can retire, officially.
Then you can get the full treatment, be any age you want. You'll still
have to live near one of our centers, of course."
"Why's that?"
"It isn't completely perfected yet. You'll have to drop by once a
month for a booster shot. But if you play ball with us for ten years, I'll