《Cloak of Anarchy》作者： - Larry Niven【EPUB】

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Cloak of Anarchy Larry Niven Produced by calibre 0.6.40 CLOAK OF ANARCHY Larry Niven Square in the middle of what used to be the San Diego Freeway I leaned back against a hugetwisted oak. The old bark was rough and powdery against my bare back. There was dark greenshade shot with tight parallel beams of white gold. Long grass tickled my legs. Forty yards away across a wide strip of lawn was a clump of elms and a small grandmotherlyWoman sitting on a green towel. She looked like shed grown there. A stalk of grass protrudedbetween her teeth. I felt we were kindred spirits and once when I caught her eye I wiggled aforefinger at her and she waved back. In a minute now Id have to be getting up. Jill was meeting me at tile Wilshire exits in halfan hour. But Id started walking at the Sunset Boulevard ramps and I was tired. A minute more. . . It was a good place to watch the world rotate. A good day for it too. No clouds at all. On this hot blue summer -i afternoon Kings FreePark was as crowded as it ever gets. Someone at police headquarters had expected that. Twice the usual number of copseyes floatedoverhead waiting. Gold dots against blue basketball-sized twelve feet up. Each a televisioneye and a sonic stunner each a hookup to police headquarters they were there to enforce thelaw of the Park. No violence. No hand to be raised against another-and no other laws whatever. Life was often entertaining ina Free Park. North toward Sunset a man carried a white rectangular sign blank on both sides. He wasparading back and forth in front of a square-jawed youth on a plastic box who was trying tolecture him