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NCE Again it was Christmas Eve on Earth and the space ships were tied on their astral moorings until the day after Boxing Day. Father had slipped off to meet A friend in the "Uranium Arms”; --Mother was adjusting the super- sonic cooker in the kitchen: | grandfather was showing off some snapshots to his grand- children.

children

By

NORMAN

MOSS

time, we were up on the planet. We had come out to

come in if I stay away from the control panol?”, she, asked.

"Why

of course you can. darling,' said Grandmother?' 'Do you want me to tell you about Mis-the big event.

""Everybody's telling us about it in school now, retorted Mary.

"Do you know when people Just jelebrated Christinas?" asked grandmother, almost slipping into

schoolmistress's rble.

hundred years ago, answered. Mary proudly.

"And do you know what we

"And these," he told the the new planet, your grand- do at Christmas?"

mother and 1, as pioneers peering through to the first Colony. We loft the Old Earth in the days of Big Brother "and never wanted to come back

stereo - tele viewers, are

Be-

to it.

WO

Mary had just learnt it all. We all have good wil,' she replied immediately. "We all think about the One who was

born in a manger. We all give

cach other presents, and pretty little pletures called Christmas "On the new planet we were cards. We sing songs called free-no teleview control, and enrols, We are all of good no newspeak and no BEC-those cheer. Everybody were hard times-no supersonic cookers, only an open radium-

ani But we prospered on the

a radio-echo.

suddenly came great

*

"That's right, dear, you've got

we seem so

A nice line in men's suitings in the year 2152-as suggested in the film, "Things To Come.

"That is why

a Christmas,' I explained. Just much more Intelligent here. some relics and the old stories

I must say that the idea are only a few people.

*rather appeals to me, I'm not

that

elso is everyone "At this point thoughts began Bure

why we are bringing Christmas so much intelligence when there the idea. Now do you know Living together does not require about it.

back?'

"Because, of the revolution.

some friends of mine and myself on another Christ mas Eve. It was a very im- portant Christmas Eve-for Lit was the first Christmas on the new planet a long time ago it was in the year 2152,

The snapshots showed the fire for your grandmother to cook time-honoured scene. In the planet arid for many years did background was a glittering not hear a word from Old Earth Christmas tree. Heaped un--not even derneath were loads of

"Then gaily-covered parcels. side, it was a sleigh with new across the Ether. The Old To show that Big Brother's gone to buzz in my head, and I knew catching on, although they are

Earth

was looking up. Big and we're human again. We did it was the Indigenous inhabitants willing enough. It crems to me a couple of reindeers Brother had been banished. His away with thought controllers. trying to materialise. In those that a time for good cheer is a harnessed to it. The ground thought controllera had been Then radio travel. Then days the original Flanet Natives, Very human thing I mean

exiled to satellites. was covered with snow Earth.

Men on newspeak. Then even television. (a small timid people who lived human in the good sense, you but that looked artificial.

searching with Just as we brought back singing, Reverse

Time

Detectors

natural life-span of 850 years) understand." for

Jungle of the The

“HỐI course," said the wise youngest of the customs. Problox and art, and sport, and lipstick. hatt feil into

And now Christmas."

Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Dimen-

cherub. Humani in the good family finally asked: "But about, backwards in time, they

sions. So they were invisibly "Just then John came into the all around us, the grandpa, what were you all came across what seemed a happy

short-lived sense. doing?"

scene on one day each year when room. We've opened the cargo conquerors, and only materialised "Why don't some of you long- millions of children laughed carrier,' he told me. 'A lot of to shoot at u Inquisitive lived people materialise and Grandfather settled down together.

Christmas stuff-but no now. thought or a deep and dificult join in, if you are really in- into his seat, while the

I suppose we'll have to do with comment from their wise old terested. Do you have ony. "So they discovered "Christ- our own home-made snow, aven Brains. family

around gathered

feelings about it?". him, and he said-though Planetary Society for

mas" again. And the Inter though we can't get it quite

Human white. And they've sont the "It felt as a whole, tribe he couldn't remember how Happiness despatched "Christmas reindeer!' often he'd said it before Cometa" to all planetary colonies "Well, I'll tell you. At the loaded with decorations, trees, instruction leaflets for making Christmas Pudding..

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"We had just seen on the Cosmic Radar screen that third Christmas Comet was coming in the crackers, the turkey, and a box.with the mysterious old long-forgotten names,. "Scotch" and "Cognac,” had arrived,

"Then a shell-shaped guided space ship appeared in the sky above the planet.

A.

:

?

* were slipping down the ladder. "Oh yea, Earth told me they of the dimensions into my con- are they talousness. were coming,What like to handle?"

"Well, they look like the things on the old Christmas cards, anyway?.........

"But why did that Incredible man on Earth send them up here without de-germing them.'

"We do indeed see à certain point in your Christmas: Of nif the form of ritual that you "Look, inhabitants," I'ehld, "If people practiso-to bring you you're going to communicate, I'm closer to one another, this seems very tired. I've been working one of the most promising. We hard. Please; if you're going to do, we, think, understand. your communicate with me, materialise aim, replied the materialisation into something we recognise and from the other. dimensional taik."

jungle..

And, couldn't you materialise "If you see the point of it, .**A note with

the reindeer into something really pretty, you might be able to help,' sug- sald he thought it might some-

grandmother asked, and not gested John hopefully. 'You how spoil the Christmas spirit if something horrid as you usually know, help get the others in the he did.'

do?' little winged cherub spirit of the thing and all that. appeared. Thank you. That's Maybe you understand it better" better.

than we do. If you're not doing anything else, that is? "Ail I could answer was: "Well, I suppose he meant to be kind.-with some interest your prepara, thing else."

"We have been observing "We are never doing any- But I don't know when I think tions for the Christmas feast"". "'Probably the tinsel, sald Earth, I'm very glad indeed that arrow. Is it something new/?'

of the amount of stupidity on enld this Cupid-without an grandmother, 'The tinsel we I'm up here, Still, you've got to need wouldn't All a space ship, give them credit for trying, I said.

* "Then

maybe It's the Mistchras Tree."

"It's another cargo carrier from Earth. I said, I'd better signal it in.'

"'Christ-nas'. We'vó. got to learn the name correctly again!

Two days later, on Christmas Eve, Grandmother stood trembling with excilement while I worked my way through the "Why are they so stupid on

sliver ribbon and red and green Earth? John asked me.

"Yes, my friend, I don't know wrapping of a package that had "So I told him. They're not this. It is the spirit that counts, excitement. It's a ticket! A

•how much

come across from Earth. When you understand of.

I saw what was in it, I shouted really so stupid, just amateurs at the Christmas spirit. Earth is ticket to Earth and a holiday some things. Living, for

in

"Yes, Yes, you've said that Instance. Before the Revolution bringing 'it back in 'n big. way there." Should we take it? before. I'll get it right next they were all conditioned to live and naturally we are joining

live on this outpost. time, sald grandmother,

in a certain way under the old Big Brother: regime. They had "The spirit. And tell me "All right, now be quiet while to destroy that conditioning said the all-knowing creature, I bring the ship in and we'll seo entirely. They were left with will the outward forms make what's in it I said working at knowledge of some few things, for the Christmas spirit?'

the controls,

and none at all, no experience,

in

others, Lost people with a loi

Yes, of course, we can go- back there when we like, I know, we'll go Christmas."

next year--for

Next

year? Oh yes, sald your grandmother reflectivaly. Mary, this little girl who lived of technical tricks, that's about much else to work on. There's every year. I never thought of "Well, they help. We haven't From now on there will be one next door, appeared. *Can I all.

nobody around who celebrated that

How to be happy other

or at

any

at Christmas time

of their time but the parties of 40 years ago

NHERE are a few daya spend much Theft in which we aan chasing happiness.

wish each other a Happy A number of Uttle streams Christmas. However black contribute to the river of hop- the clouds

painful servitude, le to learn how to deal with our increased Jelsure. We are pressing

for more and more leisure before we have learnt how to deal with It.

were parties. We all did our Is pecurity necessary for hap unwillingly to the piano, though, though stuff. The planist was dragged,piness? Of course, It helps, It may bring its own had troubles in its train.

between ourselvce, abroad and at piness. Among them is a little brought with him a case full of

ho home, and however painful our worth, but it is nice to be.

praiso. Of course, we all know music.. the anxieties which gnaw at reminded of it! many minds,, we shall greet each other as vigorously as principle

ever.

There were the. 'recitations . One source of happiness that There are still people whose that applauded virtue and con- tioning except in our wills is wo are dimdent about men- of bringing up demned vice. There was children is to tell Molly to" "Go laugh,

auntie's

which needed but the happiness

in marriage. A and and out what Tommy is occasional mld of a bottle of Carica con peet de Yet at this Christmas, more doing and fell him to stop it." stout to than ever before, we shall need Children need thair, approbation allghtest quip. There were.com is to a duil play, Let's risk

peat at

that at someone's

courtship is to marriage, what a witty, prologue to dig out our happiness from no less than their calories,

sequences, winking, and father's to thoilltio events of everyday

only and, often unsuccessful being Associated with aspidis. conjuring - trick, to say no teas and the charge that wo thing of charaden with bearded are old-fashioned, and bluntly. met Those were the days! satisfaction than in all the females and unusually rounded say that in the hundrum of matrimony there is deeper

fat--if only to keep our gazo away from bigger things,

What do we know about unexpected gift. The man who There is the happiness of the happiness? It doesn't depond too gives his wife the money, or much on surroundings. There takes her with him to buy the Doing something is the secret glittering externals of this so- can be more real happiness in present, is cutting the happiness

of much OF our happiness, called civilised life of ours, the four-plo bar of the village of receiving it in half. Trits, though I suppose. It would be bet local than in the brasty such but true.

per too in old-fashioned--but quite Yes Christmas is the festival roundings of the posh cocktall There's the happiness-mixta own sake as a source of satis family and all those so-called true to praise work for its of the Child, the children, the

with shame of being remsen, faction,

long things of life which mit It isn't something that you bered by someone whom

bar.

can catch by chasing of - by... have completely forgotten, ny bol buying a ticket -- indeed, some. I suppose : It's

of the world's biggest "ylsering, middle-age to práš

One of the problems of our b. A Happy Christmas (22) day, now that' work is tending "party to be wrillen oft as a kind of

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