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mobility would be ever present, and the Conflict between The Difference this need and that of energy replacement would be The Garden pattern of "Life" might have gone on thus constant—possibly a continuous, high-order Loosh _ throughout eternity had it not been for the perception emanator if it survived. and inquisitiveness of Someone. On occasion, he would The Fourth Crop exceeded all of Someone's — study samples of Loosh from his Garden. There was no expectations. It became apparent that a consistent, useful motive in doing so, other than the fact that Someone low of Loosh was being produced in the Garden. The may have held a remote continuing interest in his balance of "life" operated perfectly, with the Conflict factor project. producing immense amounts of Loosh and a steady On a particular analysis of a Loosh sample, Someone supplement brought into being by the constant life-span had casually examined the emanations and was about to erminations from all types of Mobiles and Stationaries. return it to the Reservoir—when he became aware of a To handle the output, Someone set up Special Collectors Difference. It was very slight, but there it was. 0 aid in the harvest. He set up channels to convey the His interest centred immediately. He looked again. raw Loosh from his Garden to Somewhere. No longer did | Woven delicately in with the more common Loosh Somewhere depend principally upon the "wild state" as | emanations was a slender fragment of purified and he principal source of Loosh. The distilled Loosh. This was an Garden of Someone had ended that. impossibility. Purified and distilled With the success of the Garden and Loosh resulted only after the "wild he production of Loosh by cultivated state" Loosh had been processed means, Others began to design and many times. The Loosh from the build their Gardens. This was in Garden of Someone required the same accordance with the Law of Supply and treatment before it could be used. Demand (Vacuum is an unstable With the success Yet here it was—so finely graded in condition), as the amounts of Loosh its refined radiations that it could or rom Someone's Garden only partially of the Garden and would not return into compound with t th i here. G th t . Collectors on behalf of the Others | the production of | ‘ermed his tests snd the result stl actually entered the Garden of Loosh by was positive. There was a factor in his Someone to take advantage of those . Garden of which he was unaware. small emanations of Loos cultivated means, Quickly, Someone left overlooked or ignored by the Others began to Somewhere and returned to his Collectors of Someone. Someone, his work completed, returned to Somewhere and occupied himself with other matters. Loosh production stayed at a constant level under the supervision of the Collectors. The only alterations were ordered by Someone himself. Under instructions from Someone, the Garden. Outwardly, all seemed he same. The solid-base gaseous areas of the Garden were an endless carpet of green reflection rom the thriving Second Crop. [he Modified First Crop in the iquid area was in perfect accord with the Action-Reaction Law (a Division of Cause and Effect). Someone perceived without delay Collectors periodically harvested hat the Difference—the source of segments of the Fourth Crop. This distilled Loosh—lay neither with was done to ensure adequate chemicals, radiation and __ the First nor with the Second Crop. design and build their Gardens. other nourishment for the younger, oncoming units. A He found his first momentary touch of distilled Loosh secondary purpose was to provide occasional extra emanation in one of the units of the Fourth Crop (which amounts of Loosh created by such harvesting. by then had filtered throughout the plantings of the To reap such harvest, the Collectors generated storms o} Second Crop). The flash came during the unusual action turbulence and turmoil in both the gaseous envelope and of this unit as it entered into a life-terminating struggle the more solid chemical formations that were the base ol with another Fourth Crop unit. This alone would not the Garden itself. Such upheavals had the effect o create distilled Loosh, Someone knew, and he probed terminating life spans of multitudes of the Fourth Crop as _ deeper for the source. they were crushed under the rolling base formation or It was at that moment he discovered the Difference. smothered under waves from the agitated liquid area ol The Fourth Crop Unit was not struggling in Conflict over the Garden. (By peculiarity of design, Fourth Crop units an ingestible remnant of a weaker Fourth Crop unit or a could not maintain their carbon—oxygen cycle surrounded tasty frond from a nearby Second Crop stern—or to by the liquid medium.) avoid termination of life and ingestion by the other the production of Loosh by Others began to design and build their Gardens. 60 * NEXUS With the success of the Garden and cultivated means, FEBRUARY - MARCH 2012 www.nexusmagazine.com