"Joe Haldeman - None So Blind (2)" - читать интересную книгу автора (Haldeman Joe)

they'd had to
go in behind as well as through the eyesockets), she actually looked
more
attractive than when they had started. That was partly because her
actual hair
had always been a disaster. And now she had glass baby-blues instead of
the
rather scary opalescence of her natural eyes. No Buck Rogers TV cameras
peering
out at the world.
He told her father that that part of the experiment hadn't worked, and
the six
Swiss scientists who had been hired for the purpose agreed.
"They're lying," Amy said. "They never intended to restore my sight.
The sole
intent of the operations was to subvert the normal functions of the
visual
cortex in such a way as to give me access to the unused parts of my
brain." She
faced the sound of her husband's breathing, her blue eyes looking
beyond him.
"You have succeeded beyond your expectations."
Amy had known this as soon as the fog of drugs from the last operation
had
lifted. Her mind started making connections, and those connections made
connections, and so on at a geometrical rate of growth. By the time
they had
finished putting her wig on, she had reconstructed the entire
microsurgical
procedure from her limited readings and conversations with Cletus. She
had
suggestions as to improving it, and was eager to go under and submit
herself to
further refinement.
As to her feelings about Cletus, in less time than it takes to read
about it,
she had gone from horror to hate to understanding to renewed love, and
finally
to an emotional condition beyond the ability of any merely natural
language to
express. Fortunately, the lovers did have Boolean algebra and
propositional
calculus at their disposal.
Cletus was one of the few people in the world she could love, or even
talk to
one-on-one, without condescending. His IQ was so high that its number
would be
meaningless. Compared to her, though, he was slow, and barely literate.
It was
not a situation he would tolerate for long.