"Richard Brautigan - in_watermelon_sugar" - читать интересную книгу автора (Brautigan Richard)

we feel like it. I spend more time at my shack than anybody
else. I usually just sleep one night a week at ideath. I of course
take most of my meals there. We who do not have regular names
spend a lot of time by ourselves. It suits us.

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"Well, here we are," Pauline said. She looked beautiful in the
light of the lantern. Her eyes sparkled.
"Please come here," I said. She came over to me and I kissed
her mouth and then I touched her breasts. They felt so smooth
and firm. I put my hand down the front of her dress.
"That feels good," she said.
"Let's try some more," I said.
"That would be good," she said.
We went over and lay upon her bed. I took her dress off. She
had nothing on underneath. We did that for a while. Then I got
up and took off my overalls and lay back down beside her.

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A Love, a Wind

we made a long and slow love. A wind came up and the windows
trembled slightly, the sugar set fragilely ajar by the wind.
I liked Pauline's body and she said that she liked mine, too,
and we couldn't think of anything to say.
The wind suddenly stopped and Pauline said, "What's that?"
"It's the wind."

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The Tigers Again

after making love we talked about the tigers. It was Pauline
who started it. She was lying warmly beside me, and she wanted
to talk about the tigers. She said that Old Chuck's dream got her
thinking about them.
"I wonder why they could speak our language," she said.
"No one knows," I said. "But they could speak it. Charley
says maybe we were tigers a long time ago and changed but
they didn't. I don't know. It's an interesting idea, though."
"I never heard their voices," Pauline said. "I was just a child
and there were only a few tigers left, old ones, and they harely
came out of the hills. They were too old to be dangerous, and
they were hunted all the time.
"I was six years old when they killed the last one. I remember
the hunters bringing it to ideath. There were hundreds of people
with them. The hunters said they had killed it up in the hills
that day, and it was the last tiger.