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CHAPTER NINETEEN DECISION
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JANOV PELORAT SAID, WITH A SMALL TRACE OF PETULANCE1 IN HIS voice, “Really, Golan, no one seems to care for the fact that this is the first time in a moderately long life--nottoo long, I assure you, Bliss2--in which I have been traveling through the Galaxy3. Yet each time I come to a world, I am off it again and back in space before I can really have a chance to study it. It has happened twice now.”
“Yes,” said Bliss, “but if you had not left the other one so quickly, you would not have met me until who knows when. Surely that justifies4 the first time.”
“It does. Honestly, my--my dear, it does.”
“And this time, Pel, you may be off the planet, but you have me --andI am Gaia, as much as any particle of it, as much as all of it.”
“Youare , and surely I want no other particle of it.”
Trevize, who had been listening to the exchange with a frown, said, “This is disgusting. Why didn’t Dom come with us? --Space, I’ll never get used to this monosyllabization. Two hundred fifty syllables5 to a name and we use just one of them. --Why didn’the come, together with all two hundred fifty syllables? If all this is so important--if the very existence of Gaia depends on it--why didn’t he come with us to direct us?”
“Iam here, Trev,” said Bliss, “and I am as much Gaia as he is.” Then, with a quick sideways and upward look from her dark eyes, “Does it annoy you, then, to have me call you ‘Trev’?”
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