"Thomas M. Disch - The Prisoner" - читать интересную книгу автора (Disch Thomas M)

“Do you fear I’d be too frivolous? Do you take excep-tion to the coloratura passages? You, if anyone,
should realize that my serious side isjust as serious as yours. Make a serious face. Oh, like that! All
those wrinkles–the strength of character they suggest.”

“It’s the supraorbital ridge that does that.”

“It’s so many things.”

“You have good points too.”

“Each complements one of yours. Imagine the two of us walking into the same room. We’re surrounded
with whispers, the cynosure of all men’s eyes. The waltz swells about us, and you take me in your arms.”

“What are they whispering?”

“That you’re forty years old, and still single.”

“Thirty-eight.”

“C’est la même, darling. We’ll both have little secrets tucked away in dresser drawers, behind our
stockings. Iwould have thought forty more likely.”

“You listen too much to the things people whisper.”

“Let’s leave them, then. They mean nothing tous . We’llgo off by ourselves. To the Seychelle Islands?
Meshed? The Philippines? They’re said to be quite in now.”

“We won’t listen to what people say. We value our independence too highly.”

“Where shall we go, then? You tell me.”

“To Wales.”

“Oh, not Wales! One must draw a line between independence and ennui.”

“I’ve already signed the papers, love. I am committed.”

“This isn’t pretending, then?”

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“I hope not, after all the money I’ve sunk in it.”

“Where in Wales?”

“The Pembroke coast. It has one of the quaintest nameson the map.”