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Название книги: LIGHT
Автор(ы): M. Harrison
Жанр: Научная Фантастика
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/LIGHT-155674.html
ONEDisillusioned by the Actual 1999:
Towards the end of things, someone asked Michael Kearney, 'How do you see yourself spending the first minute of the new millennium?' This was their idea of an after-dinner game up in some bleak Midlands town where he had gone to give a talk. Wintry rain dashed at the windows of the private dining room and ran down them in the orange streetlight. Answers followed one another round the table with a luminous predictability, some sly, some decent, all optimistic. They would drink until they fell down, have sex, watch fireworks or the endless sunrise from a moving jet. Then someone volunteered:'With the bloody children, I expect.'This caused a shout of laughter, and was followed immediately by: 'With somebody young enough to be one of my children.'More laughter. General applause.Of the dozen people at the table, most of them had some idea like that. Kearney didn't think much of any of them, and he wanted them to know it; he was angry with the woman who had brought him there, and he wanted h
Название книги: LIGHT
Автор(ы): M. Harrison
Жанр: Научная Фантастика
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/LIGHT-155674.html
ONEDisillusioned by the Actual 1999:
Towards the end of things, someone asked Michael Kearney, 'How do you see yourself spending the first minute of the new millennium?' This was their idea of an after-dinner game up in some bleak Midlands town where he had gone to give a talk. Wintry rain dashed at the windows of the private dining room and ran down them in the orange streetlight. Answers followed one another round the table with a luminous predictability, some sly, some decent, all optimistic. They would drink until they fell down, have sex, watch fireworks or the endless sunrise from a moving jet. Then someone volunteered:'With the bloody children, I expect.'This caused a shout of laughter, and was followed immediately by: 'With somebody young enough to be one of my children.'More laughter. General applause.Of the dozen people at the table, most of them had some idea like that. Kearney didn't think much of any of them, and he wanted them to know it; he was angry with the woman who had brought him there, and he wanted h
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