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synee_oblako18 апреля 2020 г.“There’s an old tale, Gillespie, of the airplane flying into Belfast and the pilot switches on his microphone and welcomes the passengers to Aldergrove Airport and says that the temperature is fifty-five degrees and there’s a light rain coming out of the north and if they’d like to turn their watches to local time then they should wind them back three hundred years. Three hundred years ago.” I explained, “Europe was being torn apart by the wars of religion. Protestant against Catholic."
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He told me that the telephone number in Ireland had proved to belong to an Enniskillen shop owned by a sixty-eight-year-old spinster who dealt in religious statuettes, while Brendan Flynn, taxes by the Irish police with my story of a meeting in Miami, blithely retorted that he had been attending a conference on the future of Ireland at the University of Utrecht. Gillespie told me that two distinguished professors of International Law and a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church had signed affidavits supporting Brendan’s alibi. I had to laugh. Brendan had style.
“Such people wouldn’t lie!” Gillespie reproved me.7103 - synee_oblako18 апреля 2020 г.Читать далее
“You take risks when you plant a bomb and you don’t want the excitement to end, so when the job’s done you go to a bar and drink. You boast. You listen to other men boasting.” That was true, but I could just as easily have said that we got drunk because we did not want to think about what we had just done. Because we knew that nothing had been achieved by the bomb and nothing ever would be achieved. The only believers in terrorism were the fanatics who led the movement and their very youngest and most stupid recruits. Everyone else was trapped in their roles.
7102 - synee_oblako4 января 2020 г.
He was a man whose pride was easily hurt, and a man who repaid hurt with death.
387 - synee_oblako4 января 2020 г.
Michael preferred to describe himself as the Commander of the Provisional IRA’s Boston Brigade, which was stretching a point for there was no formally established Boston Brigade, but Michael nevertheless fancied himself as a freedom fighter and kept a pair of black gloves and a black beret folded in tissue paper and ready to be placed on his funeral casket. He had never married, never wanted to, he said.
387 - synee_oblako4 января 2020 г.
I had waited four years for Shafiq to remember me, to summon me back to the darker paths. Four years. And I was ready.
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