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. Some such. No need to kill him
off. A job like that would not require a villain as horrendous as the Overlord."
"Wouldn't it?" Harshaw asked quietly. "Uh- Maybe you would like to take over the
series?" "Not me. I'm semi-retired. All I have now is The Stone-bender Family, a
series strictly for laughs, no substantial villain required. Now I know the
truth of the World as Myth I will never again create a real villain... and I
thank Klono that I never have, not really, as I have only a limited belief in
villainy."
"Well, I can't answer without Hazel anyhow; I'm the junior writer, in
charge of punctuation and filling in weather and scenery; she controls plot. So
I must change the subject. Uncle Jock, what was this you were saying to Captain
Sterling about hunting dinosaurs? One of your jokes? Like the time you sawed off
ten square klicks of the Ross Ice Shelf and towed it to Singapore, swimming
sidestroke."
"Not sidestroke all the way; that's not possible."
"Come off it. Dinosaurs."
"What about dinosaurs? I like to hunt them. I took John Sterling with me
once; he got a truly magnificent tyrannosaurus rex. Would you like to try it?"
"Are you serious? Uncle, you know I don't hunt. I don't like to shoot
anything that can't shoot back."
"Oho! You misunderstood me, nephew. We don't kill the poor beasties.
Killing a dinosaur is about as sporting as shooting a cow
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