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Название книги: The Pale Roses
Автор(ы): Michael Moorcock
Жанр: Научная Фантастика
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Short summer-time and then, my heart's desire , The winter and the darkness: one by one The roses fall, the pale roses expire Beneath the slow decadence of the sun .Ernest Dowson "Transition "
1. In Which Werther is Inconsolable
"You can still amuse people, Werther, and that's the main thing," said Mistress Christia, lifting her skirts to reveal her surprise. It was rare enough for Werther de Goethe to put on an entertainment (though this one was typical — it was called "Rain") and rare, too, for the Everlasting Concubine to think in individual terms to please her lover of the day. "Do you like it?" she asked as he peered into her thighs. Werther's voice in reply was faintly, unusually animated. "Yes." His pale fingers traced the tattoos, which were primarily on the theme of Death and the Maiden, but corpses also coupled, skeletons entwined in a variety of extravagant carnal embraces — and at the centre, in bone-white, her pubic hair had been fashioned in the outline of an elegant and somehow quin
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