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Название книги: A Death in China
Автор(ы): Carl Hiaasen
Жанр: Детектив
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/A-Death-in-China-151112.html
PROLOGUE
Changan, China, 213 B.C."Where is Confucius?" the emperor demanded.Princes, nobles, councillors, generals, diplomats, servants and eunuch-ministers mimicked the emperor's angry mien. Square-jawed, flint-eyed, they stared at the cluster of old men whose robes and formal bearing marked them as scholars.Silence wrapped the throne room. It was not a question to be answered. Everybody knew Confucius had been dead nearly three hundred years."Is Confucius in heaven? Where is heaven? What do your books tell you? Is he a bush, or a river, or a bird that flies through the forest? Does he live still?Tell me, scholars."The eldest scholar, gnarled as the cane he clutched with both hands, responded in a voice that held no fear."Where the master is we cannot say. But his spirit is among us men.""You know nothing!" the emperor snapped. "Am I then just a man, like any other?""You are foremost among men, and more," answered a councillor named Li Su in prayerlike incantation. "You are Qin Shi Huangdi, August Sovereign,
Название книги: A Death in China
Автор(ы): Carl Hiaasen
Жанр: Детектив
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/A-Death-in-China-151112.html
PROLOGUE
Changan, China, 213 B.C."Where is Confucius?" the emperor demanded.Princes, nobles, councillors, generals, diplomats, servants and eunuch-ministers mimicked the emperor's angry mien. Square-jawed, flint-eyed, they stared at the cluster of old men whose robes and formal bearing marked them as scholars.Silence wrapped the throne room. It was not a question to be answered. Everybody knew Confucius had been dead nearly three hundred years."Is Confucius in heaven? Where is heaven? What do your books tell you? Is he a bush, or a river, or a bird that flies through the forest? Does he live still?Tell me, scholars."The eldest scholar, gnarled as the cane he clutched with both hands, responded in a voice that held no fear."Where the master is we cannot say. But his spirit is among us men.""You know nothing!" the emperor snapped. "Am I then just a man, like any other?""You are foremost among men, and more," answered a councillor named Li Su in prayerlike incantation. "You are Qin Shi Huangdi, August Sovereign,
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