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    Wainer
    Wainer
    Wainer
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    Wainer

    By William Ashman and Michael Shaara

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Wainer - William Ashman

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Wainer, by Michael Shaara

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      Title: Wainer

      Author: Michael Shaara

      Illustrator: ASHMAN

      Release Date: May 3, 2010 [EBook #32230]

      Language: English

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      Wainer

      By MICHAEL SHAARA

      Illustrated by ASHMAN

      [Transcriber Note: This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction April 1954. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

      Certainly, life has a meaning—though sometimes it takes a lifetime to learn what it is.

      The man in the purple robe was too old to walk or stand. He was wheeled upon a purple bench into the center of a marvelous room, where unhuman beings whom we shall call They had gathered and waited. Because he was such an old man, he commanded a great sum of respect, but he was nervous before Them and spoke with apology, and sometimes with irritation, because he could not understand what They were thinking and it worried him.

      Yet there was no one left like this old man. There was no one anywhere who was as old—but that does not matter. Old men are important not for what they have learned, but for whom they have known, and this old man had known Wainer.

      Therefore he spoke and told Them what he knew, and more that he did not know he was telling. And They, who were not men, sat in silence and the deepest affection, and listened....

      William Wainer died and was forgotten (said the old man) much more than a thousand years ago. I have heard it said that people are like waves, rising and riding and crumbling, and if a wave fell once on a shore long ago, then it left its mark on the beach and changed the shape of the world, but is not remembered.

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