Пустота

М. Джон Гаррисон

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Kitty31 декабря 2015 г.
‘I can be anything I want,’ she said, ‘but I don’t want that. I want to be the one thing I am.’
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Argon_dog5 июля 2018 г.
Люди, в том числе мертвые, всегда слишком многого требуют.
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Kitty31 декабря 2015 г.
At a certain age, she now understood, you owe the past nothing except to recognise it as the past.
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Kitty31 декабря 2015 г.
‘Nothing is real. Do you understand? There are only contexts. And what do they context?’ He gave Anna an intent look; breathed heavily a few times through his mouth. ‘More contexts, of course!’
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Rossweisse14 сентября 2016 г.
Она каждый день смотрела себе в глаза, но не обязательно что-нибудь в них видела.
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Kitty31 декабря 2015 г.
History, the boys from Earth believed, is bunk. The Angel of History may look backwards, but that pose will make no difference to the storm that blows it into the future. No wonder it has such a surprised expression!
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Kitty31 декабря 2015 г.
Inside, economics – as invisible as a poltergeist, a force without apparent agency – was dividing the place up into single rooms.
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Kitty31 декабря 2015 г.
‘The thing about life is that if you get it wrong you can’t go back.’ There were two kinds of people, he said: those who lived their lives in the prolonged moment of panic in which they first realised this – ‘They have no idea where the door is now, let alone how to get it open if they could find it’ and who therefore spent their lives thrashing about in what he called ‘the disorder of hearing it click shut behind them’. The other kind, after a single awful pang, ‘one fast look back’, decide to make the best of whatever happens next. ‘Those people go on,’ he finished: ‘They’re still hoping for something good.’
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Kitty31 декабря 2015 г.
Past every surface, he had taught her, at every level, things were so wrong and inhuman: get below any surface and instantly you saw how wrong things were for us. ‘Forget all the anthropic crap,’ he used to insist. ‘None of this made itself for us.’
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Kitty31 декабря 2015 г.
‘Never do anything unless you’re lost or on fire, Doctor. Otherwise how will you remember it?’
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