"Jerry Sohl - I, Aleppo" - читать интересную книгу автора (Sohl Jerry)

"Double the frequency and boost the power a hundredfold."

"A hundred times?" Sam looked to Easton to see if he'd heard correctly.

Easton said blandly, "We want to bring one of them into the lab, don't
we?"

"Very well," Sam agreed.

"That will be all for today," Max said, slipping out from under his
helmet monitor. He turned to Finsterwald. "You're slated for the next
session."

"I am?" Ralph Finsterwald seemed surprised. Then he grinned, looked
over to Gary and said, "Well, I'm ready. Especially if I can meet the gal
that Gary did."

"If you do," Easton said, "maybe this time we'll trap her."
 ALEPPO

My name is Aleppo. Beings who are older than I named me that
because in my flesh and blood life I lived in Aleppo when it was the Greek
and biblical Beroea, a main caravan route across Syria to Baghdad.

In dreams I am a murderer, as I was in life, waylaying travelers
along the drifting sands, caravan to caravan, slashing and slaying with
my jeweled scimitar, but never killing without reason.

I am one of the Beings in the Consciousness Pool who has become a
Volunteer, as have Adrea and Ronsard. You see, there are some among
Us who feel that humans, should they reach the point where they can
communicate with Us without danger to themselves or to Us, should be
allowed to do so. Beings here who believe this are new. They do not know
how things are. That is why some of Us have volunteered to stop the
humans who call themselves scientists. They are dangerous.

It is peaceful here in the Consciousness Pool and We mean to keep it
that way. It is good not to have the bother of flesh and blood bodies and
all the ills that go along with them.

We are only entities when We invade dreams. We do that when We
wish (and We must invade dreams now and then in order to continue
being part of the Consciousness Pool). We live at peace with humans,
orchestrating their dreams with what seems to them to be living beings.
We do not want them to know what and who We are because men
cannot live at peace among themselves in what passes as life for them.
We do not want them to create the chaos here that they create where
they live.

Because I once led a violent life and still do so in dreams, I have