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Название книги: The Cloud Atlas
Автор(ы): David Mitchell
Жанр: Современная проза
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/The-Cloud-Atlas-169902.html
To LucyWould that I hadhad such a map
No morphine: no use, the doctor said.The boy would die within the hour, and morphine was in short supply. He was saving it for the soldiers-for American soldiers, he added, checking the wall clock, then his watch, then me. It was four o'clock, 1600 hours Alaskan War Time, on July 6, 1945, a mere thirty-four days before fighting in Japan officially ended. The boy was Japanese.When I was a boy, I was told a writer should date his age from the day he started writing. I can't remember why I was told this; I just remember that I liked it enough to repeat it over the years to those who might benefit from the wisdom. To anyone. To people like my drill sergeant.He had a quick reply: a soldier should date his age from the day he started killing.If that's so, I was even younger than the world took me for back then. An eighteen-year-old sergeant, I'd been in the army for ten months, waging a secret war, from Alaska, for six. I'd trained in bomb disposal. I'd learned
Название книги: The Cloud Atlas
Автор(ы): David Mitchell
Жанр: Современная проза
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/The-Cloud-Atlas-169902.html
To LucyWould that I hadhad such a map
No morphine: no use, the doctor said.The boy would die within the hour, and morphine was in short supply. He was saving it for the soldiers-for American soldiers, he added, checking the wall clock, then his watch, then me. It was four o'clock, 1600 hours Alaskan War Time, on July 6, 1945, a mere thirty-four days before fighting in Japan officially ended. The boy was Japanese.When I was a boy, I was told a writer should date his age from the day he started writing. I can't remember why I was told this; I just remember that I liked it enough to repeat it over the years to those who might benefit from the wisdom. To anyone. To people like my drill sergeant.He had a quick reply: a soldier should date his age from the day he started killing.If that's so, I was even younger than the world took me for back then. An eighteen-year-old sergeant, I'd been in the army for ten months, waging a secret war, from Alaska, for six. I'd trained in bomb disposal. I'd learned
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