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Название книги: Majipoor Chronicles
Автор(ы): Robert Silverberg
Жанр: Фэнтези
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Majipoor-Chronicles-158256.html
For Kirby who may not have been driven all the way to despair by this one, but who certainly got as far as the outlying suburbs.
Prologue
In the fourth year of the restoration of the Coronal Lord Valentine a great mischief has come over the soul of the boy Hissune, a clerk in the House of Records of the Labyrinth of Majipoor. For the past six months it has been Hissune's task to prepare an inventory of the archives of the tax-collectors — an interminable list of documents that no one is ever going to need to consult — and it looks as though the job will keep him occupied for the next year or two or three. To no purpose, so far as Hissune can understand, since who could possibly care about the reports of provincial tax-collectors who lived in the reign of Lord Dekkeret or Lord Calintane or even the ancient Lord Stiamot? These documents had been allowed to fall into disarray, no doubt for good reason, and now some malevolent destiny has chosen Hissune to put them to rights, and so far as he can see it
Название книги: Majipoor Chronicles
Автор(ы): Robert Silverberg
Жанр: Фэнтези
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Majipoor-Chronicles-158256.html
For Kirby who may not have been driven all the way to despair by this one, but who certainly got as far as the outlying suburbs.
Prologue
In the fourth year of the restoration of the Coronal Lord Valentine a great mischief has come over the soul of the boy Hissune, a clerk in the House of Records of the Labyrinth of Majipoor. For the past six months it has been Hissune's task to prepare an inventory of the archives of the tax-collectors — an interminable list of documents that no one is ever going to need to consult — and it looks as though the job will keep him occupied for the next year or two or three. To no purpose, so far as Hissune can understand, since who could possibly care about the reports of provincial tax-collectors who lived in the reign of Lord Dekkeret or Lord Calintane or even the ancient Lord Stiamot? These documents had been allowed to fall into disarray, no doubt for good reason, and now some malevolent destiny has chosen Hissune to put them to rights, and so far as he can see it
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