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Название книги: A Dirty Job
Автор(ы): Christopher Moore
Жанр: Современная проза
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/A-Dirty-Job-161551.html
PART ONETHE SORRY BUSINESS
What you seek, you shall never find.For when the Gods made man,They kept immortality for themselves.Fill your belly.Day and night make merry,Let Days be full of joy.Love the child that holds your hand.Let your wife delight in your embrace.For these alone are the concerns of man.— The Epic of Gilgamesh
1BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH—HE KINDLY STOPPED FOR ME—
Charlie Asher walked the earth like an ant walks on the surface of water, as if the slightest misstep might send him plummeting through the surface to be sucked to the depths below. Blessed with the Beta Male imagination, he spent much of his life squinting into the future so he might spot ways in which the world was conspiring to kill him—him; his wife, Rachel; and now, newborn Sophie. But despite his attention, his paranoia, his ceaseless fretting from the moment Rachel peed a blue stripe on the pregnancy stick to the time they wheeled her into recovery at St. Francis Memorial, Death slipped in.“She’s not breathing,” C
Название книги: A Dirty Job
Автор(ы): Christopher Moore
Жанр: Современная проза
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/A-Dirty-Job-161551.html
PART ONETHE SORRY BUSINESS
What you seek, you shall never find.For when the Gods made man,They kept immortality for themselves.Fill your belly.Day and night make merry,Let Days be full of joy.Love the child that holds your hand.Let your wife delight in your embrace.For these alone are the concerns of man.— The Epic of Gilgamesh
1BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH—HE KINDLY STOPPED FOR ME—
Charlie Asher walked the earth like an ant walks on the surface of water, as if the slightest misstep might send him plummeting through the surface to be sucked to the depths below. Blessed with the Beta Male imagination, he spent much of his life squinting into the future so he might spot ways in which the world was conspiring to kill him—him; his wife, Rachel; and now, newborn Sophie. But despite his attention, his paranoia, his ceaseless fretting from the moment Rachel peed a blue stripe on the pregnancy stick to the time they wheeled her into recovery at St. Francis Memorial, Death slipped in.“She’s not breathing,” C
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