Oryx and Crake

Margaret Atwood

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innashpitzberg25 сентября 2012 г.
He wishes he had something to read. To read, to view, to hear, to study, to compile.
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innashpitzberg25 сентября 2012 г.
He’s had a terrible night. He doesn’t know which is worse, a past he can’t regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly. Then there’s the future. Sheer vertigo.
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innashpitzberg25 сентября 2012 г.
...she wanted to protect him, from the image of herself – herself in the past. She liked to keep only the bright side of herself turned towards him. She liked to shine.
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innashpitzberg25 сентября 2012 г.
Internal consistency is best. Snowman learned this earlier in his life, when lying had posed more of a challenge for him.
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innashpitzberg25 сентября 2012 г.
He’d recently discovered the joys of quotation.
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innashpitzberg25 сентября 2012 г.
"...You used to be so . . . you had ideals, then.”
“Sure,” said Jimmy’s father in a tired voice. “I’ve still got them. I just can’t afford them.”
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varvarra21 августа 2018 г.
Джимми запоминал древние словечки и временами небрежно вставлял их в разговоры: предестинация, трунить, жовиальный, смарагд. Он питал странную нежность к этим словам, будто они дети, заблудившиеся в лесу, и его долг – их спасти.
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nedkashtanka25 марта 2016 г.
Украсим жесткий и холодный мир чисел жизнерадостным двухмерным пустословием.
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innashpitzberg25 сентября 2012 г.
The tide of human desire, the desire for more and better, would overwhelm them. It would take control and drive events, as it had in every large change throughout history.
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innashpitzberg25 сентября 2012 г.
He hates these dreams. The present’s bad enough without the past getting mixed into it.
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