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Roger Zelazny. Sign of chaos
Atec Ноябрь 07 2007 02:48:28
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. "It seems possible they ' cut into the big caves
below itsomewhere."
"What's it like down there?" .
"Under the palace? Just dark and big. Ancient. . . ."
"I'd like to see it."
"Whatever for?"
"The Pattern's down there. It must be pretty colorful."
"Oh, it is-all bright and swirly. Rather intimidating, though."
"How can you say that when you've walked it?"
"Walking it and liking it are two different things." ``
"I'd just thought that if it were in you to walk it, you'd
feel some affinity, some deep resonant kinship with it."
I laughed, and the sounds echoed about us.
"Oh, while I was walking it I knew it was in me to
do it," I said. "I didn't feel it beforehand, though. I was; just
scared then. And I never liked it."
"Strange."
"Not really. It's like the sea or the night sky. It's big' and it's
powerful and it's beautiful and it's there. It's a natural force and you
make of it what you will."
She looked back along the passageway leading inward.
"I'd like to see it," she said.
"I wouldn't try to find my way to it from here," I told her. "Why do
you want to see it, anyhow?" '
"Just to see how I'd respond to something like that "
"You're strange," I said.
"Will you take me when.we go back? Will you show it to me?"
This was not going at all the way I'd thought it would
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