"Charles de Lint - Someplace To Be Flying" - читать интересную книгу автора (De Lint Charles)

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For Kiya

yippee-ki-yi-yay




AUTHOR'S NOTE


Thanks for inspiration, guidance, and crow stories go out to MaryAnn, Terri, Rodger, Andrew and
Alice V., Kiya, Amanda, and Ginette.
And, as usual, let me mention that the city, characters, and events to be found in these pages are
fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
If any of you are on the Internet, come visit my homepage. The URL (address) is
http://www.cyberus.ca/~cdl.

charles de lint Ottawa, Summer 1997



CONTENTS


1 Poetry in a Tree
2 A Piece of Nowhere
3 The House on Stanton Street
4 In a Field of Grace
5 Tarnished Mirrors
6 The Lonesome Death of Nettie Bean
7 City of Crows
 8 The Light Will Stay On


So I asked the raven as he passed by,
I said, "Tell me, raven, why'd you make the sky?"
"The moon and stars, I threw them high,
I needed someplace to be flying."
-Kiya Heartwood,
from "Wyoming Wind"

If men had wings and bore black feathers,
few of them would be clever enough to be
crows.