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    An Epos of Posi and Nega
    An Epos of Posi and Nega
    An Epos of Posi and Nega
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    An Epos of Posi and Nega

    By Joe Skidmore

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    Posi and Nega live a care free existence of whirling and dancing and is filled with strange adventures!

    Thus it is we find Posi raging with stark fury, and Nega sweetly and mildly excited, on their way to the ocean!

    "A fine piece of business!" snarled Posi, suddenly breaking a long and sullen silence. "But at least we're out of that infernal sewer."

    "Where are we?" purred Nega, eager for information and glad to observe Posi's better humor.

    "Watch your orbit!" vibrated Posi sharply, as if the whole universe depended on his command. Nega in her excitement had oscillated the slightest in her speeding flight.

    "Watch your own flight!" hissed Nega. "I've as much orbital pride as you. I'm getting sick and tired of your surly growling ! I--"

    "Wait a minute! Don't get excited, my darling Nega. I just wanted to make you mad. Do you know, my sweet, you look so lovely when you glow that charming, angry red? It fits you like the tail of Halley's comet."

    Posi smugly fancied in his vast conceit that he was the great lover of the atomic universe. Jurgen, in the novel, boasted no greater conquests of love than Posi did.

    Nega, ever gullible and eager for flattery-as women usually are- was instantly mollified.

    "Please tell me where we are," Nega's vibrations were beseeching.

    "We're now in the ocean called the Pacific by those dumb humans. We've been carried out to sea about five miles by offshore currents." Posi's humor was better as he went on academically.

    "This Pacific Ocean is a great place after all. Those foolish Tellurians are very proud of their land, but they don't realize that their little planet, earth, is, surfaced by many times more of an area of water than of land. Maybe this won't be so tough. After all, you're always with me!"

    "What is this water that makes up the mighty oceans?" purred Nega archly, pretending great ignorance that her lover might appear important. "You are so wise, Posi. You know everything!"

    It seemed that the colossal conceit of the positive electron fairly increased his mass as Nega's words vibrated on his consciousness.

    "My dear Nega," buzzed Posi, with vast importance, and using his best scholastic manner, "ocean water is a most interesting liquid. We will drift about and meet many electrons who live in different elements. Of course you know that oxygen atoms, and you and I live in one of the oxygen atoms, combine with hydrogen atoms to make pure water. I've lived in ordinary water before, and it was not so exciting. But in sea-water it's different. The salts in sea water are seventy-eight percent sodium chloride, fifteen percent magnesium salts, and four percent calcium salts."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXinXii
    Release dateOct 31, 2015
    ISBN9781612101903
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      An Epos of Posi and Nega - Joe Skidmore

      An Epos of Posi and Nega

      By Joe Skidmore

      Copyright © 1935 by Joseph Skidmore

      This edition published in 2011 by eStar Books, LLC.

      www.estarbooks.com

      ISBN 9781612101903

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      An Epos of Posi and Nega

      By Joe Skidmore

      We have another episode in the lives of the two interesting little beings, Posi and Nega, whose protonic and electronic lives are so full of strange adventure and adventure not a whit more strange than the unvarnished truth of the history of molecules would read, if put down in cold print.

      Proem

      Again we adventure with Posi and Nega, our diminutive, electronic friends. In past prefaces of Posi and Nega narrations, I have rashly promised you that the little beings will someday live in the brain box of a great scientist and philosopher — that you and I might attempt to share the thoughts of the mighty.

      Such a vast, temerarious conceit on my part! Shakespeare in Hamlet wisely observes: Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works. The eaglet must flutter its weak wings before it may soar. This weak pen, too, flutters and falters — so hold with me in patience. Mayhaps again, Posi and Nega may--?

      After all, it's not important what my impotent pen records of Posi and Nega. Even you and I are not important in the vast, incomprehensible scheme of things!

      But it is important that you and I think — and think! Atlantean thoughts! And that we marvel in reverent wonder at the incredible scheme of things — the vastness— the smallness of things!

      So let's hope— the mighty hopes that make us men. (Tennyson)

      J. W. S.

      An Epos of Posi and Nega

      Where are we now? vibrated Nega, the trim, young negative electron. Her speeding, flashing orbit glowed an agitated purple.

      Say, you dumb, female electron! snarled Posi, the positive electron, I've told you before we're on our way to the ocean. We're in a cursed sewer, built by those stupid Tellurians! Of all the bad luck! This is the limit!

      Nega, politic as women can be, ignored the fury of the angry proton and turned to other electrons in her atom of oxygen for information.

      Posi and Nega, the two tiny electrons, had experienced many incredible adventures together in various elements. They were born far out in the cold places of endless space — mothered by the mysterious cosmic rays and fathered by that incomprehensible energy that gives life and motion to electrons.

      Posi was created a positive electron, sometimes called by Tellurians a proton. Nega came into life a negative or orbital electron. They were first met in an atom of helium gas. For countless eons they lived and loved, drifting hither and yon in the vast voids of space.

      They are drowning even now! The dirigible is fast breaking up! The engines and heavy structures have torn loose and sunk.

      A care free existence, whirling and dancing strange dances of love; singing vibrating, hissing melodies with the amazing speeds

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