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

18: inaoiL and that gang of his and the place where they
used to dig, the Forgotten Works, and all the terrible things they
did, and what happened to them, and how quiet and nice things
are around here now that they are dead.
19: Conversations and things that happen here day to day.
(Work, baths, breakfast and dinner.)
20: Margaret and that other girl who carried the lantern
at night and never came close.
21: All of our statues and the places where we bury our
dead, so that they are forever with light coming out of their
tombs.
22: My life lived in watermelon sugar. (There must be
worse lives.)
23: Pauline. (She is my favorite. You'll see.)
24: And this the twenty-fourth book written in 171 years.
Last month Charley said to me, "You don't seem to like making
statues or doing anything else. Why don't you write a book?
"The last one was written thirty-five years ago. It's about time
somebody wrote another book."
Then he scratched his head and said, "Gee, I remember it was
written thirty-five years ago, but I can't remember what it was
about. There used to be a copy of it in the sawmill."
"Do you know who wrote it?" I said.
"No," he said. "But he was like you. He didn't have a regular
name."
I asked him what the other books were about, the twenty-
three previous ones, and he said that he thought one of them was
about owls.
"Yeah, it was about owls, and then there was a book about
pine needles, very boring, and then there was one about the Forgotten Works, theories on how it got started and where it
came from.
"The guy who wrote the book, his name was Mike, he took
a long trip into the Forgotten Works. He went in maybe a hundred
miles and was gone for weeks. He went beyond those high
Piles we can see on clear days. He said that there were Piles
beyond those that were even higher.
"He wrote a book about his journey into the Forgotten Works.
It wasn't a bad book, a lot better than the books we find in the
Forgotten Works. Those are terrible books.
"He said he was lost for days and came across things that
were two miles long and green. He refused to furnish any other
details about them, even in his book. Just said they were two
miles long and green.
"That's his tomb down by that statue of a frog."
"I know that tomb well," I said. "He has blond hair and he's
wearing a pair of rust-colored overalls."
"Yeah, that's him," Charley said.

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