"Robert A. Heinlein - Lost Legacy" - читать интересную книгу автора (Heinlein Robert A)

“If you mean parapsychology, yes.”

“How’s the racket coming?”

“Pretty good. I’ve got one less lecture this semester, which is just
as well—I get awfully tired of explaining to the wide-eyed innocents
how little we really know about what goes on inside their think-
tanks. I’d rather do research.”

“Who wouldn’t? Struck any pay dirt lately?”

“Some. I’m having a lot of fan with a law student just now, chap
named Valdez.”

Coburn lifted his brows. „So? E.S.P.?“

“Kinda. He’s sort of a clairvoyant; if he can see one side of an
object, he can see the other side, too.”

“Nuts!”

“ ‘If you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?’ I’ve tried him out under
carefully controlled conditions, and he can do it—see around
comers.”

“Hmmmm—well, as my Grandfather Stonebender used to say,
‘God has more aces up his sleeve than were ever dealt in the
game.’ He would be a menace at stud poker.”

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“Matter of fact, he made his stake for law school as a professional
gambler.”

“Found out how he does it?”

“No, damn it.” Huxley drummed on the table top, a worried look on
his face. “If I just had a little money for research I might get enough
data to make this sort of thing significant. Look at what Rhine
accomplished at Duke.”

“Well, why don’t you holler? Go before the Board and bite ‘em in
the ear for it. Tell ‘em how you’re going to make Western
University famous.”

Huxley looked still more morose. “Fat chance. I talked with my
dean and he wouldn’t even let me take it up with the President.
Scared that the old fathead will clamp down on the department
even more than he has. You see, officially, we are supposed to be
behaviorists. Any suggestion that there might be something to