Unit 5.12, exercise 7a, page 153.0:00
The Boss Smiles I had this arranged specially last year, Lee Jay.0:31
I don't think I've showed it to you before.0:36
Come over here and take a look.0:38
In the old days all rooms had things like this.0:40
They were called windows.0:44
Bailey knew that very well, having viewed many historical novels.0:47
I've heard of them, he said.0:52
Come here, said the boss.0:55
Bailey squirmed a bit but did as he was told.0:57
There was something strange about the privacy of a room being exposed to the outside world.1:02
Sometimes the Boss was over the top with his affection for the past.1:07
Like with his glasses.1:12
That was what made him look wrong.1:17
Bailey said, pardon me, Boss, but you're wearing new glasses, aren't you?1:19
The Boss stared at him in mild surprise, took off his glasses, looked at them and then at Bailey.1:24
Without his glasses, his round face seemed rounder and his chin a little more pronounced.1:32
He looked confused, too, as his eyes couldn't focus properly.1:39
He put his glasses back on his nose, then added with real anger, I broke my old ones three days ago.1:45
What with one thing or another, I wasn't able to replace them until this morning.1:52
Those three days were awful.1:56
On account of the glasses?1:58
And other things, too.2:01
I will tell you about that.2:03
He turned to the window and so did Bailey.2:04
With mild shock, Bailey realized it was raining.2:07
For a minute he was lost in the sight of water dropping from the sky, while the Boss displayed a kind of pride, as though the phenomenon was something he'd arranged.2:15
This is the third time this month I've watched it rain.2:25
Amazing, don't you think?2:29
Against his will, Bailey had to admit to himself that he was impressed.2:30
In his 42 years he had rarely seen rain, or any of the phenomena of nature, for that matter.2:36
He said, it always seems a waste for all that water to come down on the city.2:43
It should limit itself to the reservoirs.2:49
LJ Said the Boss, you are too modern, that's your trouble.2:52
In the old days people lived in the open.2:56
I don't mean on the farms only.2:58
I mean in the cities too.3:00
Even in New York, when it rained, they didn't think of it as waste.3:02
They lived close to nature.3:06
It's healthier, better.3:08
The troubles of modern life come from being separated from nature.3:10
Read up on the Coal Century sometime, Baby.3:15
Had he had heard many people moaning about the invention of the nuclear reactor.3:18
He moaned about it himself when things went wrong or when he got tired.3:23
Moaning like that was normal in human nature.3:28
Back in the cold century people moaned about the invention of the steam engine.3:32
In one of Shakespeare's plays a character moaned about the invention of gunpowder.3:37
A thousand years in the future they'd be moaning about the invention of the human robot brain.3:43
He said grimly, Look, Julius, it wasn't normal for him to be so friendly with the boss at work.3:48
However many times the boss called him Lige.3:56
But something special was called for here.3:59
Look, Julius, you're talking about everything except what I came in here for, and it's worrying me.4:02
I'll get to it, Lijay.4:11
Sure, what isn't on this planet?4:17
More trouble with the robots?4:19
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