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Название книги: On The Beach
Автор(ы): Nevil Shute
Жанр: Современная проза
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In this last of meeting places


We grope together


And avoid speech


Gathered on this beach of the tumid river…



This is the way the world ends
This js the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
– T. S. Eliot




1

lieutenant commander peter holmes of the Royal Australian Navy woke soon after dawn. He lay drowsily for a while, lulled by the warm comfort of Mary sleeping beside him, watching the first light of the Australian sun upon the cretonne curtains of their room. He knew from the sun's rays that it was about five o'clock; very soon the light would wake his baby daughter Jennifer in her cot, and then they would have to get up and start doing things. No need to start before that happened; he could lie a little longer.
He woke happy, and it was some time before his conscious s