ET- Tele-Replicant in Computer and Phone

  But thoughts of his folly on Earth made him long for his friend there, and a tele-beam went out from his forehead and headed for Earth. Through star systems and dimension gates it traveled, and the little tele-replicant of E.T. came down, almost on target, in Elliott’s classroom.

  It was a computer class, and the little replicant landed in Elliott’s machine. Seeing a good opportunity at hand, the tele-replicant began creating a message from within the computer. A single word, telling all, flashed on Elliott’s screen:

  Owch

  But Elliott was looking across the aisle at a certain young lady he’d grown strangely attracted to lately—for Elliott had grown in years since the time E.T. had left. Time-travel distorts and while E.T. had aged little, Elliott had grown and entered junior high school—and found new interests there.
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  “Yes,” said E.T., “it is pleasant work.” But his head kept turning skyward, sunward and beyond, and a mental wave went out, entered the wormholes of space, jumped universes, and found Earth.

  It orbited, and began final descent, coming down in a row of phone booths near the school bus stop, where Elliott and his friends had gathered. E.T.’s tele-replicant got twisted up in the telephone currents, its message spiraling out and into the ear of a salesman using the phone. “Forty-two pairs of bikini briefs, size medium, yessir, I’ll be delivering them this afternoon.” He hung up, and for no reason he could think of, phoned home.

  “Hello, Mother, this is Sheldon . . . no I’m not in jail. Mother, please, I don’t need a loan, I’m selling underwear. Mother, would you spare me your sarcasm? Does Dad need any boxer shorts? No, that’s not why I’m calling, I don’t know why I’m calling, I suddenly had this urge to phone home.”

- E.T. The Book of the Green Planet, chapter 4