. . .
Late or soon?
Benham sought for some loose large measure of time.
"Before those constellations above us have changed their shapes. . . .
"Does it matter if we work at something that will take a hundred
years or ten thousand years? It will never come in our lives,
White. Not soon enough for that. But after that everything will be
soon--when one comes to death then everything is at one's
fingertips--I can feel that greater world I shall never see as one
feels the dawn coming through the last darkness. . . ."
16
The attack on the Rand Club began while Benham and White were at
lunch in the dining-room at the Sherborough on the day following the
burning of the STAR office. The Sherborough dining-room was on the
first floor, and the Venetian window beside their table opened on to
a verandah above a piazza. As they talked they became aware of an
excitement in the street below, shouting and running and then a
sound of wheels and the tramp of a body of soldiers marching
quickly. White stood up and looked. "They're seizing the stuff in
the gunshops," he said, sitting down again.
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