the Ray
By Ron Milner
One slender stream of sunlight filled the slight iatus between the clod drapes and plunged through thewindow down diagonally across the room. Bridging the small glass-d oored bookca beneath the window, which was an annex ofthe two larger bookcas the coved, excepting the window space, one full wall of the room. Passing over the moderat e-sized, tasteful coffee table in front of the leather couch; not touching, onex什么意思pine the table, the delicate wine glass or the bottle of sherry, northe huge, black-leather-bound Bible with it s red silk marker, the thick red edges of its pages.
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s, the rumpled argyle socks; over the brief flash of hair covered starkly pale-pink skin beneaththe wrinkled pants; past the thick sweater which way to the leafs of the sportco at flung immobilely out to the sides where theone hand appeared so naked and virginal becau the other hid behind the dark heavy steel of the 去世英语small revolver; past the united b ow tie, the stiffly thrusted chin, the主持人培训 tight thin lips; not marking the neat purple-edged hole at the left temple, nor the花冠 英文 monicolsmall pool ofdrying blood that had escaped to the carpet an d now stopped running------ directly to the eyeglass that had been thrown just slightly to the right of the逃避英文 dead face by the force of the low-caliber bullet.
The sunlight went, as an eager lover, straight to theeyeglass; kissing them; blazing there in a frolicking glitter. One ecstatic ray reflected off to the right, to the wall, to the wooden edge of a glass-covered bulletin which hung there proclaiming:
DR.SAMUEL J. EVANSTON, FOR HIS
OUTSTANDING WORK IN THEFIELD OF NUCLEAR RESEARCH, HAS BEEN AWARDED,
ON THIS DAY, THE--.
The reflected ray danced ecstatically on the wooden frame of the glass-covered bulletin, just above a large sheet of note paper attached there by one tiny straight pin. The ray danced from the frame onto the glass, glittering playfully; then skipped toward the tiny str aight pin and jumped onto it, gleaming minutely. Sparkled there for an instant, before lea ping to the note paper and playing among the large, neatly printed words:
I SAW THEGREAT LIGHT BURN AWAY THE DESERT
AND I THOUGHT IT GOOD. THAT IT WOULD FEED, AND WARM.
THEN I SAW THE DESERT TURN TO GLASS AND HEARD
BABES SCREAM IN TERROR! YET, STILL I THOUGHT IT GOOD,
THAT IT WOULD GIVE LIGHT AND DO WORK . NOW I SEE THE DARKNES S!
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LO! WE HAVE DISCOVERED THE SECRET OF FIRE,
AND ARE BURNING AWAY THE FIELDS!
O, OUR FATHER! WE KNOW THAT WE DO!
BUT CANNOT STOP OURSELVES!
The ecstatic ray played among the neatly printed words until darkness came and devoured it.
