" A Lua é Verde " de Fritz Leiber. Segue-se Effie, uma esposa de casa que gosta de olhar para a lua, que é verde devido à precipitação e poeira radioativa. Há um tema recorrente na comunidade que constantemente se escaneia com contadores geiger para provar que eles não estão contaminados. O homem que chega à janela afirma que a radiação já nasceu novas maravilhas :
Effie, desperate for news of the outside world, asks what it’s like, and Patrick (who already seems rather reminiscent of a fairy traveler) tells her that while the radioactive dust did at first bring about only death and ugliness, life soon adapted into a veritable fairyland “more amazing than you tombed folk could ever imagine.” Patrick’s description of this wonderland, replete with giant stingless bees and rainbow serpents and wonderful, dark-skinned children with 14 fingers and 16 toes who move about faster than the eye can see
Acontece que Patrick é simplesmente imune à radiação, mas ela sai com ele de qualquer maneira, e parece que ela também pode estar imune.
Hank scans Patrick with his Geiger counter, “the Twentieth Century’s mouthpiece of ultimate truth”, and gets him to admit he had made the whole thing up – what’s outside is, he admit, just a little bit worse than either of them could imagine. Patrick himself is somehow resistant to radiation, a modern-day “Rappaccini’s child” who wanders the world alone.
Effie, enraged by this further killing of beauty piled on top of that regularly inflicted by Hank, declares that she can’t and won’t be cooped up any longer and is leaving for the garden. The two men watch her disappear into the greenish murk of the surrounding cityscape, at which point Patrick declares that he’s going after her, given that she also seems strangely resistant to the dust. Hank seals them both out and stays behind scanning himself with the Geiger counter.
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