"Bradbury, Ray & Hasse, Harry - The Pendulum" - читать интересную книгу автора (Bradbury Ray)

except a few of the black quivering things that are still hanging to my
pendulum, almost blotting out the sunlight; and a few more above, near the
operating machinery, concentrating those same emanations by which they corroded
the robots. They are determined to do a complete job here. I know that in a few
minutes they will begin to take effect, even through the glassite shield. I
shall continue to write until my pendulum stops swinging. .... it is happening
now. I can feel a peculiar grinding and grating in the coggery above. Soon my
tiny glassite world will cease its relentless arc.
I feel now only a fierce elation flaming ithin me, for after all, this is my
victory ! I have conquered over the men who planned this punishment for me, and
over countless other generations, and over the final robots themselves! There is
nothing more I desire except annihilation, and I am sure that will come
automatically when my pendulum ceases, bringing me to a state of unendurable
motionlessness....
It is coming now. Those black, gelatinous shapes above are drifting away to join
their companions. The mechanism is grinding raucously. My arc is narrowing ...
smaller ... smaller....
I feel ... so strange....