Chapter 101
similarity to the other, Tim could not set the ashes alight again. With him, there was room for intellectual curiosity. "Doesn't it bother you, Tim," she asked, "to be so bound by the Laws?" "I cannot imagine anything else, madam." "All my life I have been bound to the pull of gravity, even during my one previous trip on a spaceship, but I can imagine not being bound by, it. And here I am, in fact, not bound by it." "And do you enjoy it, madam?" "In a way, yes." "Does it make you uneasy?" "In a way, that too." "Sometimes, madam, when I think that human beings are not bound by Laws, it makes me uneasy." "Why, Tim? Have you ever tried to reason I out to yourself why the thought of Lawlessness should make you feel uneasy?" Tim was silent for a moment. He said, "I have, madam, but I
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