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Название книги: Canal Dreams
Автор(ы): Iain Banks
Жанр: Детектив
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Canal-Dreams-167072.html
DEMURRAGE
demurrage n. Rate or amount payable to shipowner by charterer for failure to load or discharge ship within time allowed; similar charge on railway trucks or goods; such detention, delay. [f. OF demo(u)rage (demorer, as DEMUR see — AGE)]
1: Fantasia del Mer
tic tic tic tic… Tiny noises of compression, sounding through her skull.She'd been alarmed, the first time she'd heard them, over the noise of her breathing and the tinny wheezes of the scuba gear which sat on her back, wrapping its plastic limbs round her and jamming rubber and metal into her mouth. Now she just listened to the ticking noises, imagining they were the signature of some erratic internal metronome; the unsteady beats of a tiny, bony heart.The noises were her skull's reaction to the increasing weight of water above her as she dived, descending from the unsteady mirror of the surface, through the warm waters of the lake, to the muddy floor and the stumps of the long-dead trees.She had held a skull once, and seen the minute fissures marking its
Название книги: Canal Dreams
Автор(ы): Iain Banks
Жанр: Детектив
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Canal-Dreams-167072.html
DEMURRAGE
demurrage n. Rate or amount payable to shipowner by charterer for failure to load or discharge ship within time allowed; similar charge on railway trucks or goods; such detention, delay. [f. OF demo(u)rage (demorer, as DEMUR see — AGE)]
1: Fantasia del Mer
tic tic tic tic… Tiny noises of compression, sounding through her skull.She'd been alarmed, the first time she'd heard them, over the noise of her breathing and the tinny wheezes of the scuba gear which sat on her back, wrapping its plastic limbs round her and jamming rubber and metal into her mouth. Now she just listened to the ticking noises, imagining they were the signature of some erratic internal metronome; the unsteady beats of a tiny, bony heart.The noises were her skull's reaction to the increasing weight of water above her as she dived, descending from the unsteady mirror of the surface, through the warm waters of the lake, to the muddy floor and the stumps of the long-dead trees.She had held a skull once, and seen the minute fissures marking its
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