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

"I don't know. I don't know anything about it."
"It looks like one of those things insoiL and his gang used
to dig up down at the Forgotten Works. I've never seen any
thing like it," I said, and gave it back to Fred.
"I'll show it to Charley," he said. "Maybe Charley will know.
He knows about everything there is."
"Yeah, Charley knows a lot," I said.
"Well, I guess I had better be going," Fred said. He put the
thing back in his overalls. "I'll see you at dinner," he said.
"OK."
Fred went out the door. He crossed the bridge without step
ping on that board Margaret always steps on and couldn't miss
if the bridge were seven miles wide.
Charley's Idea

after fred left it felt good to get back to writing again, to dip
my pen in watermelonseed ink and write upon these sheets of
sweet-smelling wood made by Bill down at the shingle factory.
Here is a list of the things that I will tell you about in this
book. There's no use saving it until later. I might as well tell you
now where you're at--
1: ideath. (A good place.)
2: Charley (My friend.)
3: The tigers and how they lived and how beautiful they
were and how they died and how they talked to me while they
ate my parents, and how I talked back to them and how they
stopped eating my parents, though it did not help my parents
any, nothing could help them by then, and we talked for a long
time and one of the tigers helped me with my arithmetic, then
they told me to go away while they finished eating my parents,
and I went away. I returned later that night to burn the shack
down. That's what we did in those days.
4: The Statue of Mirrors.
5: Old Chuck.
6: The long walks I take at night. Sometimes I stand for
hours at a single place, without hardly moving. (I've had the
wind stop in my hand.)
7: The Watermelon Works.
8: Fred. (My buddy.)
9: The baseball park.
10: The aqueduct.
11: Doc Edwards and the schoolteacher.
12: The beautiful trout hatchery at ideath and how it was
built and the things that happen there. (It's a swell place for
dancing.)
13: The Tomb Crew, the Shaft and the Shaft Gallows.
14: A waitress.
15: Al, Bill, others.
16: The town.
17: The sun and how it changes. (Very interesting.)