"Dibdin, Michael - Aurelio Zen 02 - Vendetta UC - part 02" - читать интересную книгу автора (Dibdin Michael)

everyone tried to hush up the scandal. 'It must be somewhere.'
Don't worry, it'll turn up, just wait and see.' A crack hai!
appeared in their world. And through it, for a moment, they fe."::
the chill and caught a glimpse of the darkness that awaited then-
too.
I've got together quite a collection, one way and another. Wh
will become of it now, I wonder? Cups, pens, string, ribbo> .
playing cards, wallets, nails, clothing, tools, all piled up in tii
darkness like offerings to the god whose absence I sense at night,
in the space between the stars, featureless and vast.
Things don't just disappear for no reason. 'There's a reason fri~
everything,' as old Tommaso likes to say, nodding that misshapen
head of his that looks like a lump of rock left standing in a field for
farmers to curse and plough around, or else blow up. I'd like to
blow it up, his wise old head. 'What's the reason for this, then? '
I'd ask as 1 pulled the trigger. Too late for that now.
Perhaps he would have understood, at the last. Perhaps the othe;s
did, too. Perhaps the look on their faces was not just pain and
terror, but understanding. At all events, the crack was there, the
possibility of grace, thanks to me. Things are not what they seevi.
There's more to this place than meets the eye. 1 was living proof of
that.
And they proved it too, dying.