【英文读物】Brainchild
17页1、【英文读物】BrainchildChapter 1 Ron Carvers day was beginning strangely.For one thing, the legs he swung off the narrow bed wouldnt touch the floor. And his hands, whose ten strong fingers could manipulate the controls of any ship ever launched into space, were weak and clumsy.He looked at the hands first, looked at them for a long time. Then he screamed.He screamed until footsteps were loud in the corridor outside his room; shrill, piping screams that didnt stop even when the giant woman-face was ben
2、ding over him, speaking gentle, soothing words, stroking his thin shoulders with giant, comforting gestures.There, there, now, the woman was saying. Youre all right, Ronnie. Youre all right. It was only a nightmare. a bad old nightmare.She was right. Only the nightmare hadnt ended. The nightmare was before his face, in her gargantuan features, in her motherly touch on his frail body, in the sight of the small, soft appendages that were his hands.They were the hands of a boy of twelve. And Ron Ca
3、rver was thirty years old.Two men giants joined the woman at his bedside, and one of them forced a small speckled capsule past his resisting lips. Then his viewpoint became detached and distant, and a pleasurable drowsiness overcame him. He stretched out and shut his eyes, but he could still hear the worried tones of their speech.Dr. Minton warned us, one of the men said, lifting Rons bony wrist and feeling for the pulse. The boy has suffered some severe traumatic shock.Dr. Minton! Ron Carvers m
4、ind grasped the familiar namethe name of his own physiciangratefully. But his body gave no sign.Maybe we better call him, the woman said nervously. I think hes still in the sick bay.Good idea.In another moment, a familiar hairy face was floating over Rons head like a captive balloon, a face grown grotesque in size.Doctor. he said with his lips.There. Dr. Minton patted his shoulder. Youre all right now, Ronnie. Youre perfectly all right. Just relax and try to sleep. The balloon came closer, and t
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