Fountains of Paradise# SciFiction - 星际浪子
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43. Fail-Safe
Five kilometres from the terminus, driver-pilot Rupert
Chang had reduced speed yet again. Now, for the first time,
the passengers could see the face of the Tower as something
more than a featureless blur dwindling away to infinity in
both directions. Upwards, it was true, the twin grooves
along which they were riding still stretched forever-or at
least for twenty-five thousand kilometres, which on the
human scale was much the same. But downwards, the end was
already in sigh
Five kilometres from the terminus, driver-pilot Rupert
Chang had reduced speed yet again. Now, for the first time,
the passengers could see the face of the Tower as something
more than a featureless blur dwindling away to infinity in
both directions. Upwards, it was true, the twin grooves
along which they were riding still stretched forever-or at
least for twenty-five thousand kilometres, which on the
human scale was much the same. But downwards, the end was
already in sigh