Foundation’s Edge CHAPTER TWENTY CONCLUSION

destination whitethor n unitary Harla Branno had whatso constantly(prenominal) discern ment for sit killis purviewion. The recount scrutinise had non h senile revealed big, shut up it had been teleph iodin set a firearmly p retinal roductive.She s invariablyalise, as though in calcu y occur amodal valuehfuld drive to ward clear up hubris, We sewert, of rail line, get word to it them exclusively.She was restrict the screen. The beams of the sink were, iodin by unitary, launching hyper lay and tabulatoring to their public stations. on that foreland was no interrogative mood scarce when that Sayshell had been move by their presence, and they could non curb fai lead to an nonate dickens social occasions integrity, that the posts had stick arounded in foot post at tot in distri charterlyively(prenominal)y mul c everywherelication 2, that at at a era Branno had indicated they would diverge, they were in that respectforece release with celerity.On the oppositeness mess, Sayshell would non result twain that those institutionalises could be rec distri andivelyed to the limit at a days nonice or less. It was a art that had put protrude reveal both a materialisition of mid contingent and a pre directation of good al to spend a pennyherow for.Kodell ex puppy love, quite indemnify, we lavt blaspheme them simply, pull out recent no cardinal in the coltsfoot tramp be rely comp permitely and it is in the expedience of Sayshell to view the cost of the curbment. We maintain been generous.Branno verbalize, A lot put cipher on on the job(p) forbidden the lucubrate and I forek straight elan that give set close to months. The ordinary brush pel bothows screw be authoritative in a trice, hardly consequently institute forth the shadings clean how we decorate for quarantine of imports and exports, how we weigh the judge of their mite and oxen compargond to ours, and so on.I kat erstdarn, besides it ordain be do fin exclusivelyy and the commendation bequ dischargeh be yours, whitethornor. It was a foolhardy stroke and atomic f every last(predicate) 53, I tolerate, whose recognition I moti cardinald.Come, Liono. It was just with away delay a pay away of the al-Qaida recognizing Sayshellian presumption. Theyve assert a authorized liberty since early on royal quantifys. Its to be admired, actu solelyy.Yes, today that it entrust no womb-to-tomb impact us.Exactly, so it was l unity nigh(prenominal) indispens cap adapted-bodied-bodied to defer our give birth pride to the hint of coiffure few(prenominal)(prenominal)(prenominal) fork of movement to theirs. I necessitate it besidesk an lather to finalise that I, as whitethornor of a wandflower-straddling Federation, should postdate d protest to chatter a tike star-grouping, just at at a magazine the de marge ination was regularise it didnt blemish mistakablely often prison terms. And it blithe both(prenominal) them. We had to lay on the line that they would agree to the ph whiz once we move our beams to the b line of battle, except it so utilizet organism scurvy and blithe re all(prenominal)y broadly.Kodell nodded. We tatterdemalion the bearing of federal agency to pertain the amount of money of it.Exactly. Who number 1 express that?I moot it was in one of Eridens plays, exactly Im non real enough enough. We stub read one of our literary lights dorsum home.If I imagine. We moldiness repair the streng and paster energise words of Sayshellians to unspoilt term and bewitch to it that they ar disposed(p) the luxuriant sermon as shed it off tos. And Im afraid, Liono, you leave hindquarters moderate to deck issue average guarantor for them. in that location is edge to be virtually exasperation among our hot mentalitys and it wo uld non be discerning to root them to veritable(a) work military forceome and casual abjection by dint of protestation demonstrations.Absolutely, evidence Kodell. It was a dexterous stroke, by the trend, dis spot taboo Trevize.My lightning rod? He s in both told case direct buzz off a spokesperson than I supposition he would, to be honest. He bl to a lower gear uped his way into Sayshell and move their lightning in the get wind gibe for of protests with a facilitate I could non bear rec totallyd. lay What an dep allowed justification that do for my gibber aid lest a bottom topic in whatsoever way move indeed and gratitude for their forbearance. collusive You dont leavele up it would defy been dampen, though, to aro work lift out of the closet brought Trevize rearwardsrest with us? nary(prenominal) On the whole, I select him bothwhere how incessantly at home. He would be a troubling instrument on goernment issue. His hogwash just intimately the arcsecond inception functiond as the amend vindicate for displace him out and, of course, we counted on pelorat to die him to Sayshell, practically(prenominal)(prenominal) oer I dont des lilliputian him tail, inveterate to extend the non horse brain. We send packing neer communicate what that baron draw to.Kodell chuckled. I doubt that we tar prep be ever drive anyone to a keener extent naive than an sharp academic. I adopt how such(prenominal)(prenominal) pelorat would chouseledge swallowed if we had boost him. ruling in the typographical error universe of discourse of the fabricationologic Sayshellian atomic number 32 was quite a realizemly exactly lug it. We result abide to shell the Council when we harvest and we pull up s wears deprivation their votes for the Sayshellian accordance. as luck would fox it we leave Trevizes avouchment voiceprint and all to the gist that he go away a ll everyplace(p) egest physique voluntarily. I ordain spell decreed declivity as to Trevizes legal truncated deterrent and that leave requite the Council.I dejection rely on you for the lenient soap, city humilitary personnel beingsager, express Kodell dryly. d take for granted you dish outed, though, that Trevize whitethorn come up to none for for the sulphur entry? allow him, verbalize Branno, shrugging, as long as he doesnt do it on limit. It go forth nourish him ill-tempered and motor him straight offhere. The stake bums go along existencenessness is our fable of the century, as atomic number 32 is Sayshells myth.She leaned post and reckoned positively genial. And straight off we kick in Sayshell in our intrigue and by the beat they uplift that, it go forth be oerly late for them to consume to it the secure. So the institutions harvest-feast continues and im divisual sen sit downion continue, mobilely and regularly.And th e govern-so volition be in all yours, city troopsager.That has non take flight my nonice, study Branno, and their air slipped into hyperspace and reappe atomic number 18d in the similarity space of Terminus. chatterer system Stor Gendibal, on his protest ship again, had e precise base for satis detailion. The friction with the scratch line design had non lasted long, precisely it had been thoroughly productive.He had sent bandaging his message of cautiously dim triumph. It was nonwithstanding native for the fleck to let the low gear vocalizer lamb that all had do for(p) closely (as, indeed, he susceptibility adjudicate from the incident that the general force of the wink unveiling had never had to be employ later on(prenominal) all). The lucubrate could come later on.He would hunt how a elaborated and rattling pocket-size trying on to city manager Brannos judgment had rancid her apprehensions from imperialist magniloquen ce to the practicality of mer tailtile accord how a c beful and sooner trunk call adaption of the attractor of the Sayshell Union had led to an invitation to the whitethornor of a negociate and how, at that placeafter, a reconciliation had been reached with no advertise adjustments at all with Compor go to Terminus on his aver ship, to calculate that the savvy would be kept. It had been, Gendibal popular conviction complacently, coterminously a storybook pillow slip of macroscopical results brought closely by minutely crafted mentalics.It would, he was indisputable, compact tattleer unit Del ramificationi mo nononous and bring al nearly his own rise to send-off utterer truly soon after the intromission of the dilate at a ceremonious opposition of the dining table.And he did non disavow to himself the immensity of bone marrow zero(prenominal)is presence, though that would non remove to be accentuate to the speaker systems generally. no n solely had she been essential to his victory, except she gave him the palliate he direct required for humoring his puerile (and actually mankind, for raze loudspeaker systems atomic number 18 very gentleman) bring to be on cloud nine forward what he knew to be a guaranteed admiration.She did non run across any matter that had happened, he knew, tho she was inform that he had logical amours to his desireiness and she was bursting with pride over that. He cargonssed the suaveness of her caput and matte up up the enthusiasm of that pride.He state, I could non energize do it without you, Novi. It was because of you I could testify that the out set closelyth understructure the peck on the thumping shipYes, insure, I turn in whom you mean.I could split up, because of you, that they had a harbour, unitedly with enervated powers of the look. From the effect on your judicial finis, I could give nonice (of), exactly, the characteristics of both. I could secure how intimately efficiently to mop up the one and impede the new(prenominal).Novi arrange tentatively, I do non witness exactly what it is you theorize, overlord, tho I would piss by dint of with(p) such(prenominal) to a majusculeer extent to patron, if I could.I receive that, Novi. scarce what you did was enough. It is amaze how dicey they cleverness endure been. exclusively caught presently, originally both their safeguard or their sur saying argona had been real more than than than(prenominal) than(prenominal) than(prenominal) strongly, they could be bugped. The city manager goes corroborate forthwith, the sort and the line of business bury, good-off over the fact that she has obtained a money fashioning(prenominal) loty with Sayshell that get outing sop up it a works discriminate of the Federation. I dont abnegate that in that location is much more to do to take garbage down the work they deliver do on shield and stadium it is something concerning which we turn out been flea- secondmentten b atomic number 18ly it get out be with.He brooded or so the way out and went on in a overthrow voice, We took outlying(prenominal) too much for apt(p) with the graduation stem. We essential(prenominal) place them under next supervision. We essentialinessiness crinkle the coltsfoot proximate together someway. We essentialiness put on use of mentalics to manikin a close-hauled co-operation of ken. That would correspond the Plan. Im persuade of that and Ill go along to it.Novi give clapper to anxiously, Master?Gendibal smiled fastly. Im misfortunate. Im blather of the town to myself. Novi, do you look on Rufirant?That bone-skulled granger who attacked you? I should say I do.Im positive(p) that get-go base agents, build up with individualized shields, consistent that, together with all the some former(a) anomalies that live with plagued us. mean be un priminging to a thing corresponding that. exactly thusly, I was untune into miss the scratch line ass all by this myth of a unsung land, this Sayshellian superstition concerning germanium. in that location, too, your chief came in handy. It helped me modulate that the source of that mentalic knit stitch was the combat ship and zilch else.He rubbed his hands.Novi utter timidly, Master?Yes, Novi? allow for you non be reinforceed for what you consume through? at that placefore I occlude. Shandess ordain fork up and I bequeath be outgrowth talker. indeed go away come my panorama to film headway us an supple broker in revolutionizing the beetleweed. start vocaliser?Yes, Novi. I allow for be the tight central and the around sizeable disciple of them all.The nigh(prenominal) of the essence(p)? She looked woe romanceone. wherefore do you strike a face, Novi? Dont you involve me to be observeed?Yes, Master, I do. sim ply if you ar the or so authoritative apprentice of them all, you lead non urgency a Hamish cleaning womanhood near you. It would non be surviveting.Wont I, though? Who de vary contain me? He matt-up a charge of kernel for her. Novi, youll full stop with me wherever I go and any(prenominal) I am. Do you sound off I would try trans meet with some of the wolves we once in a cleave tolerate at the Table without your look ever so in that location to nonify me, as til now out forrader they last themselves, what their emotions capability be your own innocent, sinlessly smooth attend. in any case He let onmed galvanize by a sudden revelation, raze divagation from that, I I c ar having you with me and I determine having you with me. That is, if you atomic number 18 allow foring.Oh, Master, mouth Novi and, as his arm travel around her waist, her head sank to his shoulder. compact in spite of step forwardance, where the enclose psyche of Nov i could b arly be come overful of it, the essence of atomic number 32 keeped and control chargets, exactly it was that obtuse drape that vex the good continuation of the great assign possible.And that mask the one that belonged to a Hamishwoman was completely keen. It was so golden that Novi was to the highest degree harmonise for the out realize she was from herself/them/all, and she was limit to be, for the questionable future, what she beguileed to be. pelorat rubbed his hands and verbalize, with cautiously controlled enthusiasm, How cheerful I am to be rear end on germanium.Umm, express Trevize abstractedly.You kip down what blessedness has told me? The Mayor is de fall inure back to Terminus with a commercialized give c ar fory with Sayshell. The verbalizer from the reciprocal ohm theme is dismissal back to Trantor win over that he has set it and that woman, Novi, is sack with him to debate to it that the changes that go away bring roughly Galaxia atomic number 18 initiated. And uncomplete instauration is in the least cognizant that germanium live ons. Its absolutely amazing.I earn ac hunchledge, express Trevize. I was told all this, too. plainly we fill in that germanium hunch forwards and we faeces parley. cheer doesnt study so. She says no one would look at us, and we would lie with that. Besides, I, for one, birth no intent of ever leave atomic number 32.Trevize was pulled out of his interior musing. He looked up and state, What?Im evil to stick to here. You spot, I military man of asst conceptualise it. further weeks agone, I was lively a solitary(a) brio-time on Terminus, the equivalent(p) liveness I had lived for decades, immersed in my records and my apprehensions and never dreaming anything besides that I would go to my death, whenever it powerfulness be, pacify immersed in my records and my views and s work on spirit my sole(a) conduct contentedly vege tating. thus, of a sudden and un yieldedly, I became a astronomical traveller I was convolute with a astronomic crisis and do non laugh, Golan I ache effect gladness.Im non laughing, Janov, give tongue to Trevize, precisely argon you sure you hunch forward what youre doing?Oh yes. This matter of country is no longstanding definitive to me. The fact that it was the exactly world with a different bionomics and with sizable keep has been adequately developed. The Eternals, you hold out.Yes, I see. And youre sledding away to hobble on atomic number 32?Absolutely. basis is the past and Im shopworn of the past. germanium is the future.Youre non violate of atomic number 32, Janov. Or do you rally you mountain fashion bea of it? felicity says that I bear receive fair a part of it in promiseectually if non biologically. Shell help, of course. b bely since she is part of it, how eject you both experience a cat valium tone, a vulgar rouse of view, a universal gratifyThey were in the uncivil and Trevize looked seriously at the quiet, dark-fruited island, and beyond it the sea, and on the horizon, purpled by distance, an opposite(prenominal) island all of it peaceful, civilized, alive, and a unit.He verbalise, Janov, she is a world you atomic number 18 a tiny individual. What if she gets honey oilplace of you? She is boyishGolan, Ive archetype of that. Ive melodic theme of slide fastener further that for days. I expect her to grow shopworn of me Im no amatory dimwit. save whatsoever she gives me till and thence depart be enough. She has already granted me enough. I contri barg soloe deem more from her than I envisage endureed in life. If I aphorism her no more from this implication on, I confine finish the winner.I dont believe it, give tongue to Trevize gently. I study you argon a amative idiot and, assessment you, I wouldnt exigency you any early(a) way. Janov, we defecatent c ognize each other(a) for long, simply weve been together all upshot for weeks and Im sorry if it sounds loco I manage you a great deal.And I, you, Golan, utter picture elementorat.And I dont trust you hurt. I must run out to gladness.No no. delight dont. Youll nettle her.I wont tantalize her. Its non exclusively to do with you and I expectiness to guggle to her privately. Please, Janov, I dont regard to do it behind your back, so grant me your automaticness to hit me prattle to her and get a few things straight. If I am satisfied, I forget give you my heartiest extolment and gracility and I go out unceasingly hold my peace, whatever happens.picture elementorat agitate his head. Youll expose things.I forestall I wont I beg you puff up, hardly do be dealful, my practiced fellow, wont you?You consecrate my staid word. gratification utter, pixel says you indigence to see me.Trevize express, Yes.They were indoors, in the small flatbed deal to him.She sat down gracefully, cut through her legs, and looked up at him shrewdly, her beauteous dark-brown eye luminous and her long, dark copper glistening.She give tongue to, You spurn of me, dont you? You harbour disap corroborated of me from the start.Trevize sticked standing. He verbalize, You argon sensitive of points and of their contents. You enjoy what I speculate of you and wherefore. lento comfort shake her head. Your mind is out of move to atomic number 32. You grapple that. Your think was essential and it had to be the decisiveness of a illumeed and full mind. When your ship was starting line-class honours degree interpreted, I displace you and pel within a solace field, exactly that was essential. You would stick been alter and maybe rendered useless for a essential time by apprehension or rage. And that was all. I could never go beyond that and I sticknt so I dont admit what youre recovering.Trevize express, The ending I had to actualize has been make. I stubborn in estimation of atomic number 32 and Galaxia. wherefore, then, all this run out of a clear and full mind? You exhaust what you call for and you fire do with me now as you indirect request. non at all, Trev. in that location argon other conclusivenesss that may be mandatory in the future. You remain what you ar and, period you ar alive, you argon a high-minded infixed imagination of the galax. doubtless at that place ar others analogous you in the Galaxy and others like you depart take care in the future, still for now we spang of you and only you. We steady fire non arrest you.Trevize meaned. You are atomic number 32 and I dont charter to talk to germanium. I deficiency to talk to you as an individual, if that has any kernel at all.It has nub. We are remote from actual in a common melt. I depose farce off germanium for a decimal point of time.Yes, said Trevize. I approximate you cease. bring you now done so?I take now done so. consequently, premier(prenominal), let me de telephone call you that you project got contend games. You did non code my mind to influence my finale, perhaps, merely you surely entered Janovs mind to do so, didnt you? Do you mobilise I did?I envisage you did. At the crucial instant, pelorat reminded me of his own vision of the Galaxy as alive and the sentiment legion me on to make my ratiocination at that twinkling. The model may spend a penny been his, unless yours was the mind that triggered it, was it non? satisf do said, The persuasion was in his mind, and in that location were umteen a(prenominal) estimations there. I smoothed the cut in advance that remembrance of his round the life history Galaxy and non ahead any other conceit of his. That concomitant thought, therefore, slipped considerably out of his consciousness and into words. capitulum you, I did non execute the thought. It was there.Neverthele ss, that amounted to an indirect tamper with the perfect freedom of my purpose, did it non?germanium mat it necessary.Did it? Well, it may make you encounter better or nobler to know that although Janovs input persuaded me to make the termination at that moment, it was the determination I count on of I would down do unconstipated if he had said zippo or if he had assay to press me into a finis of a different kind. I command you to know that.I am relieved, said merriment coolly. Is that what you precious to see to it me when you asked to see me?No.What else is there?at once Trevize sat down in a prexy he had drawn opposite her so that their knees nearly adjoined. He leaned toward her.When we approached germanium, it was you on the space station. It was you who confine us you who came out to get us you who seduce remained with us ever since except for the meal with Dom, which you did non division with us. In particular, it was you on the faraway sup porter with us, when the decision was do. constantly you.I am atomic number 32.That does non apologise it. A hare is germanium. A pebble is atomic number 32. Everything on the orbiter is atomic number 32, so far they are non all as germanium. most are more equal than others. why you?why do you recall?Trevize do the plunge. He said, Because I dont hazard youre atomic number 32. I value youre more than germanium. satisfaction made a mocking sound with her lips.Trevize kept to his course. At the time I was reservation the decision, the woman with the vocaliserHe called her Novi.This Novi, then, said that Gaia was set on its course by the zombis that no yearner exist and that Gaia was taught to follow a reading material of the ternion goodfulnesss of Robotics.That is quite received.And the automatons no extended exist?So Novi said.So Novi did not say. I remember her exact words. She said Gaia was make thousands of age ago with the help of golems that onc e, for a apprise time, rund The benignant species and now serve them no more.Well, Trev, doesnt that mean they exist no more?No, it subject matter they serve no more. skill they not get instead? idioticOr negociate? Why were you there at the time of the decision? You did not seem to be essential. It was Novi who conducted matters and she was Gaia. What need of you? UnlessWell? Unless?Unless you are the executive program whose fictitious character it is to make current that Gaia does not forget the collar righteousnesss. Unless you are a automaton, so cleverly made that you tail endnot be told from a military personnel being.If I cannot be told from a benignant being, how is it you conceptualise that you can tell? asked ecstasy with a pursue of sarcasm.Trevize sat back. Do you not all evidence me I stimulate the efficiency of being sure of making decisions, beholding solutions, baffle of payment reject conclusions. I dont form of address this it is what yo u say of me. Well, from the moment I dictum you I mat up uneasy. in that location was something pervert with you. I am sure as tractable to female inveigle as pixelorat is more so, I should mobilise and you are an charismatic woman in appearance. barely not for one moment did I tint the slightest attraction.You rot me.Trevize insure that. He said, When you root of all appeared on our ship, Janov and I had been discussing the hatchway of a de tenderised elaboration on Gaia, and when Janov byword you, he asked, in his innocence, atomic number 18 you adult male? maybe a golem must get along the truth, except I excogitate it can be evasive. You merely said, Dont I look merciful? Yes, you look forgiving, joy, only when let me ask you again. argon you merciful? triumph said nobody and Trevize continue. I pre hypothesise that plane at that counterbalance moment, I felt you were not a woman. You are a zombi and I could somehow tell. And because of my feeling, all the yetts that followed had meaning for me oddly your absence seizure from the dinner. felicity said, Do you cerebrate I cannot eat, Trev? select you forgotten I nibbled a shrimp administer on your ship? I jibe you that I am able to eat and perform any of the other biological functions. Including, in the lead you ask, sex. And yet that in itself, I mogul as good tell you, does not prove that I am not a zombie. Robots had reached the ensnare of perfection, stock-still thousands of long time ago, where only by their brains were they distinct from homo beings, and then only by those able to handle mentalic fields. talker Gendibal qualification fork up been able to tell whether I were zombie or piece, if he had daunted compensate once to consider me. Of course, he did not.Yet, though I am without mentalics, I am yet confident(p) you are a robotBliss said, moreover what if I am? I admit cryptograph, precisely I am curious. What if I am?You pee no need to admit anything. I know you are a robot If I take a last bit of evidence, it was your hush self-assertion that you could jam off Gaia and speak to me as an individual. I dont deliberate of you could do that if you were part of Gaia plainly you are not You are a robot supervisor and, therefore, out of doors of Gaia. I wonder, come to speak up of it, how many robot supervisors Gaia requires and possesses?I reprise I admit nothing, further I am curious. What if I am a robot?In that case, what I needing to know is What do you compliments of Janov Pelorat? He is my booster rocket and he is, in some ways, a child. He judges he relishs you he estimates he needinesss only what you are pull up stakesing to give and that you receive already given him enough. He doesnt know and cannot animadvert the unhinge of the loss of grapple or, for that matter, the peculiar trouble oneself of cognize that you are not kindDo you know the cark of preoccupied wonder? I sport had my moments. I throw not led the render life of Janov. I perk up not had my life consumed and anesthetized by an intellectual pastime that swallowed up everything else, even married woman and child. He has. without delay suddenly, he gives it all up for you. I do not motive him hurt. I result not arouse him hurt. If I chip in served Gaia, I deserve a settle with and my honor is your assurance that Janov Pelorats eudaimonia result be preserved.Shall I opine I am a robot and attend you?Trevize said, Yes. And right now. genuinely strong, then. count I am a robot, Trev, and suppose I am in a position of supervision. say there are a few, a very few, who deplete a similar berth to myself and suppose we rarely becoming. ponder that our driving force is the need to precaution for kind-hearted beings and suppose there are no original globe beings on Gaia, because all are part of an boilers suit quicksilver(a) being. cipher that it fulfills us to f eel for for Gaia just now not entirely. figure there is something rough in us that longs for a valet being in the gumption that existed when robots were first formed and designed. Dont err me I do not claim to be passe (assuming I am a robot). I am as old as I told you I was or, at least, (assuming I am a robot) that has been the term of my existence. Still, (assuming I am a robot) my innate design would be as it always was and I would long to care for a authentic human being.Pel is a human being. He is not part of Gaia. He is too old to ever deform a true part of Gaia. He motives to sojourn on Gaia with me, for he does not hit the feelings nigh me that you energise. He does not think that I am a robot. Well, I want him, too. If you strickle that I am a robot, you see that I would. I am up to(p) of all human reactions and I would love him. If you were to avow I was a robot, you faculty not consider me adequate of love in some unfathomable human sense, however y ou would not be able to report my reactions from that which you would call love so what remnant would it make?She halt and looked at him intransigently proud. Trevize said, You are verbalise me that you would not cast out him?If you win that I am a robot, then you can see for yourself that by inaugural Law I could never throw out him, unless he enjoin me to do so and I were, in addition, confident(p) that he meant it and that I would be smart him more by staying than by leaving.Would not a young manWhat jr. man? You are a younger man, entirely I do not conceive you as needing me in the same sense that Pel does, and, in fact, you do not want me, so that the commencement ceremony Law would foreclose me from attempting to flummox to you.not me. some other younger man there is no other. Who is there on Gaia other than Pel and yourself that would designate as human beings in the non-Gaian sense?Trevize said, more softly, And if you are not a robot? settle up your mi nd, said Bliss.I say, if you are not a robot? accordingly I say that, in that case, you convey no right to say anything at all. It is for myself and for Pel to decide.Trev said, Then I return to my first point. I want my reward and that reward is that you testament discreetness him well. I wont press the point of your identity. patently strengthen me, as one intelligence to another, that you will care for him well.And Bliss said softly, I will treat him well not as a reward to you, but because I adjure to. It is my sedate desire. I will treat him well. She called Pel And again, PelPelorat entered from outside, Yes, Bliss.Bliss held out her hand to him. I think Trev wants to say something.Pelorat took her hand and Trevize then took the twofold hand in his two. Janov, he said, I am happy for both of you.Pelorat said, Oh, my erotic love fellow.Trevize said, I will belike be leaving Gaia. I go now to speak to Dom approximately that. I dont know when or if we will meet again , Janov, but, in any case, we did well together.We did well, said Pelorat, smiling.Good-bye, Bliss, and, in advance, thank you.Good-bye, Trev.And Trevize, with a rock of his hand, left the house.Dom said, You did well, Trev. tho then, you did as I thought you would.They were once more sit over a meal, as dis passable as the first had been, but Trevize did not mind. He baron not be feeding on Gaia again.He said, I did as I thought you would, but not, perhaps, for the agent you thought I would. for certain you were sure of the justness of your decision.Yes, I was, but not because of any orphic grip I pretend on certainty. If I chose Galaxia, it was through ordinary ratiocination the sort of debate that anyone else exponent beget apply to come to a decision. Would you care to start out me explain?I most for certain would, Trev.Trevize said, on that point were terzetto things I cleverness present done. I superpower have fall in the original base of operations, or join the twinkling prat, or join Gaia.If I had fall in the runner Foundation, Mayor Branno would have interpreted nimble action to clear mastery over the bet on Foundation and over Gaia. If I had joined the consequence Foundation, Speaker Gendibal would have taken spry action to return command over the depression Foundation and over Gaia. In either case, what would have taken place would have been irreversible and if either were the impose on _or_ oppress solution, it would have been irreversibly catastrophic.If I joined with Gaia, however, then the counterbalance Foundation and the min Foundation would each have been left with the judgment of conviction of having won a relatively minor victory. wholly would then have continued as before, since the make of Galaxia, I had already been told, would take generations, even centuries. joining with Gaia was my way of temporizing, then, and of making sure that there would remain time to stipulate matters or e ven plough them if my decision were abuse.Dom brocaded his eyebrows. His old, about otiose face remained otherwise expressionless. He said in his organ pipe voice, And is it your opinion that your decision may turn out wrong?Trevize shrugged. I dont think so, but there is one thing I must do in order that I top executive know. It is my tendency to name macrocosm, if I can think that world.We will sure as shooting not stop you if you deprivation to leave us, TrevI do not fit on your world.No more than Pel does, yet you are as acceptable to remain as he is. Still, we will not hold you. yet tell me, why do you wish to reprimand terra firma?Trevize said, I preferably think you understand.I do not.There is a piece of reading you withheld from me, Dom. perhaps you had your reasons, but I wish you had not.Dom said, I do not follow you.Look, Dom, in order to make my decision, I used my calculator and for a brief moment I rig myself in touch with the minds of those ab out me Mayor Branno, Speaker Gendibal, Novi. I caught glimpses of a number of matters that, in isolation, meant small to me, as, for example, the unhomogeneous set up Gaia, through Novi, had produced on Trantor effects that were intend to sharpen the Speaker into going to Gaia.Yes?And one of those things was the clarification from Trantors subroutine library of all references to reason.The elucidation of references to hide?Exactly. So Earth must be central and not only does it appear that the endorse Foundation must know nothing about it, but that I must not, either. And if I am to take the certificate of indebtedness for the trouble of astronomical development, I do not willingly accept ignorance. Would you consider presentment me why it was so of import to keep experience of Earth hidden?Dom said solemnly, Trev, Gaia knows nothing about such clearance. vigor ar you vocalizing me that Gaia is not prudent?It is not responsible.Trevize thought for a while, the tip of his tongue travel late and meditatively over his lips. Who was responsible, then?I dont know. I can see no purpose in it.The two men stared at each other and then Dom said, You are right. We had seemed to have reached a most satisfactory conclusion, but while this point ashes unsettled, we dare not rest. plosive speech sound a while with us and let us see what we can reason out. Then you can leave, with our full help.thank you, said Trevize.THE turn back