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Название книги: Sacrament
Автор(ы): Clive Barker
Жанр: Научная Фантастика
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I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories. This is a gift from God, who spoke our species into being,
but left the end of our story untold. That mystery is troubling to us. How could it be otherwise? Without the final
part, we think, how are we to make sense of all that went before; which is to say, our lives?
So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by
chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.
PART ONE
He Stands Before An
Unopened Door
CHAPTER I
To every hour, its mystery.At dawn, the riddles of life and light. At noon, the conundrums of solidity. At three, in the hum and heat of the
day, a phantom moon, already high. At dusk, memory. And at midnight? Oh then the enigma of time itself; of a
day that will never come again passing into history while we sleep.It had been Saturday when Will Rabjohns arrived at the weather-bullied wooden sh