But the majority opinion, in which I concur, is that no foreseeable Galactic situation, even the mounting pressure of expansion, can justify sending colonists to what Ostronsky-Vierra justly labeled the Mary Celeste of space. Empty of Zoth Cheruk and his Jyk it must be by now, but not of its Nameless and its grosh (and who can say what powerful type of unknown life-form hides behind these supernatural masks?).
Superstitious, I hope I may safely say, we surely are not; but neither are we, in our Chairman’s ringing words, “reckless damn fools.” There are other worlds.
Recipe for Curry De Luxe
Anthony Boucher loved to cook. Poul Anderson says that he had considered an Anthony Boucher Cookbook. The following recipe was one of the ones that his widow, Phyllis White, gave to Anne McCaffrey for Cooking Out of This World. We present it here to give you a sampling of yet another side of Anthony Boucher.
Make a powder of the first group of nine ingredients (curry, anise, paprika, chili powder, turmeric, mace, cumin, cloves, and cardamom). Grind the whole spices in a mortar, add the others, and mix thoroughly. Chop the vegetables and fruit coarsely and sauté them in the oil with Worcestershire and 1/2 the powder mixture. Add the meat and brown it with the rest of the powder. Dissolve the bouillon cube and paste in the water and pour over all. Let simmer for 11/4 hours. Remove the meat to a serving platter. Add the sherry and the juice of the lime or lemon to the curry in the pan. Beat an egg lightly in the milk, add this, and cook, stirring, about another minute, or until it begins to thicken. Pour over the meat, and serve with rice and chutney. This should serve four, but two can make a terrible hole in it.
Notes
[1] Excerpt from Rom Gul’s Teritian History and Culture. Translated by Anthony Boucher. 12 vols. Kovis, 4739.
[2] See my refutation in Academy Proceedings, 2578: 9, 11/76.
[3] For a full discussion of this extraordinary word, meaning a group of beings feeling themselves set apart from, and above, the rest of the same type of beings (a peculiarly Tertian concept), vide infra, Chapter 127.
[4] Pp. 1259 ff.
[5] Principally by Wat Tsn, though also by Start, Pa Mr, Smit, Dr Leth, etc.
[6] The meaning of the middle words is lost.
[7] For these peculiarly Tertian words, again see Chapter 127.
[8] The mathematical signs indicating these coordinates are, unfortunately, typographically impossible to reproduce in this publication.—EDITOR
[9] For the convenience of the reader, these transcriptions have been retranscribed into the conventional biped spelling.—EDITOR
[10] The remainder of this transcription has been suppressed for this audience.
