"Brin, David - Uplift 06 - Heaven's Reach" - читать интересную книгу автора (Brin David)

PART ONE

THE FIVE GALAXIES

WHAT EMBLEMS grace the fine
'• prows or our last ships-

' How many spirals swirl on the bow
'. of each yeat vessel/ turning round and

Ri round/ symbolising our connections'^ How
many are the links that form our union'

' ONE, spiral represents the {allow worlds/
i slowly brewing, steeping/ stewing——where
| we starts its long/ hard climb.
: Struggling out of that lecundity/
new races emerge/ ripe for Uplift.

. TvvO is for stanaring culture/ streaking
| madly in our last ships/ first as clients/
\ then as patrons/ vigorously chasing our
i young interests——trading/ hghting/ and
i debating——
| Straining upward/ till we near the

'- call or becKoning tides.
I

i [HKEE portrays the dd Ones/ graceful

and serene/ who forsake starships to
I embrace a life of contemplation, fired of
'. manic rushing, (cloistering for seli-
• improvement.

I hey prepare to race tne C^reat narrower.

FOUR depicts the High Transcendents/ too majestic lor us to
perceive. But they exist!

/Vlaking plans that encompass all levels of spacer and alt
times.

77VE is for the galaxies—great whirls of shining light——our
Islands in a sterile cosmos/ surrounded by enigmatic silence. L/n
ana on they spin/ nurturing all liles many orders/ linked
perpetually/ everlasting.

C-T so we are assured. . . .